A Maternity Session That Felt Like Any Other Morning
An at-home maternity session made a lot of sense for Lauren and Ian as they spent years renovating this house themselves, and had only just moved in.
So making the mindful decision to have it be the backdrop for their maternity session felt like the most natural thing; a home they'd put so much of themselves into, now on the eve of a whole new chapter beginning inside it.
The theme of the day, if there was one, was simply how they actually are: curled up on the couch, sitting at the kitchen island the way they do every morning, hanging out with their cats, laying in their room. Nothing staged or over-directed; just the quiet, everyday rhythms of this life they built together, photographed with a little more sentiment than usual. The ordinary stuff, captured while it still looks exactly like this.
There's something really special about documenting a couple mid-chapter, right in that tender stretch of time before everything shifts. Their home as it looks right now, their routines still regimented, their mornings still slow and quiet. These are the photos that tend to mean the most years later, not because they're the most dramatic, but because they're the most true to their life, right now.
We'd photographed Lauren and Ian's wedding a couple of years ago, and showing up at their door for this felt like picking up right where we left off. Being invited back into someone's life at a new milestone is one of the best parts of our work, and it’s a gesture we are eternally grateful for.
If you're expecting and thinking about a maternity session in your own home, we'd love to be part of it!
