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Welcome to the HLPHOTO Blog! I'm Heather Gillelan, and I am a wedding photographer based in Powhatan, Virginia. I hope you grab some coffee (or an energy drink!) and enjoy checking out my latest work, and getting a little peek into the organized chaos that is my life!

Welcome to the HLPHOTO Blog! I'm Heather Gillelan, and I am a wedding photographer based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I hope you grab some coffee (or an energy drink!) and enjoy checking out my latest work, and getting a little peek into the organized chaos that is my life!

If you had told me that being a mom of two would fall into place naturally for me, I would have laughed right in your face. But its true – I can no longer remember when I was only a mama to one, and now that the pregnancy exhaustion has passed (& I’m allowed obnoxious […]

When we had our firstborn, River, we were living in a one bedroom apartment. There was no nursery to decorate & honestly I wouldn’t have had the time to decorate one anyways since he decided to enter the world at 32 weeks (and just 3 days after his baby shower!) Fast forward a few years, […]

When you think June wedding, you think HOT. Janna + Kyle were the luckiest couple to have their summer wedding on a day that was partly sunny and 75, after forecasts threatened rain all week long. The day started with mimosas + ALLLL the snacks during hair & makeup at Waverly Estate Venue in Lunenburg, […]

Nina + Ben   To say I was blessed that Nina found me through an instagram hashtag is an understatement. From our very first phone call, we just clicked, and my excitement for her big day began to blossom. The morning of her wedding, it was rainy, dreary, with a touch of snow, but as […]