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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!

Rachel first reached out to me about photographing their wedding because I was referred as someone who understood the military lifestyle and all of the challenges of planning for the future that go along with that.. little did she know, as a military wife myself, I REALLY understood how up in the air things can […]

Savannah + Kyle had the absolute perfect fall fairy tale wedding this past weekend at Bookbinders in RVA. The weather threw a few obstacles (and raindrops!) at them, but they both responded with such grace. This love story actually starts in kindergarten, where they met and were assigned letters of the alphabet. Savannah was assigned […]