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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!

This year, due to Covid, we decided to throw a combined birthday party for our boys! It’s no secret that I love to go all out on birthday parties, & I easily talked myself into doing even more than normal since teeechnically it was two parties in one! We decided on a carnival theme, and […]

It’s no secret that I love throwing over the top parties for my boys (shoutout to the world’s best mother in law for always helping me!); but today, I am sharing something a little different! Since the winter months aren’t as busy with weddings, I agreed to help a friend take on her daughter’s third […]

When my bestie, Katie, told me she was expecting, I immediately jumped at the chance to throw her a gender reveal party! She wanted a fall theme, so stew, s’mores & caramel apple slices it was! We also had a popcorn bar as well as a make your own trail mix bar! For the reveal […]

I can’t even believe I am typing this right now, but today my sweet first born is FOUR YEARS OLD! It still feels like yesterday that I was waking up in the middle of the night to feed & snuggle him, but here we are!  He loves to repeat EVERYTHING that has been said to […]