Courtney Elizabeth Photographer and Visual Storyteller

12/24/2021

✨Merry little every- and any-thing to you and yours🌙

May you find and hold even the tiniest glimpses of magic, warmth, joy, peace, and wholehearted love + gratitude.

We’re picking up some broken pieces after this challenging and wildly curious year and glueing them back together with gold. Every precious piece of our season held together with new wisdom, immense gratitude and big, big love for all we have learned and accomplished.

We couldn’t do it without you. Thank you, thank you, than you for being such and integral and beautiful part of our little Leary life. 💛

We will be returning to the office on January 10th, at which time we will start accepting 2023 wedding and 2022 interior and lifestyle inquires.

06/23/2021

S+G’s intimate, summer camp, Covid-pod ceremony last year was so sweet - today they finally get to celebrate at with all of their friends and family for a special vow renewal, dance party and alllll the hugs they can handle!

we’re coming for you! 💛☀️👏🏻

04/22/2021

Does it feel like a Friday to anyone else?

Pushing hard through all the tech hiccups I’ve come up against (email tragedy solved ✨👉🏻[email protected]), catching up on current edits and working with an incredibly talented team on some big, beautiful and luxurious upgrades over here!

To all my loyal clients, patient colleagues and good friends - thanks for hanging in there with me on this wild journey!

Still love the memory of this gorgeous shoot from Loom Curated a few years ago. 😍

04/05/2021

Inspiration reminiscing today - email is out of commission so the creative wheels are smokin’!!

Having been in this incredible industry so long, it’s easy to go with the flow and get caught in the maintenance phase (wearing all 17 hats all the time), letting the creative spirit slip away! Taking time for my website, portfolio updates and vision casting this morning!

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03/31/2021

Email is offline and off the deep end, but at least these images make me smile and are here to stay!

This gorgeous girl is marrying her best friend on her childhood stomping grounds on Seguin Island. Intimate, personal and physically secluded in the Atlantic Ocean with just her favorites for the ceremony followed the next day by private estate ocean side festivities for all... the dream, yep!

We cannot freaking wait to jump back in and take this year by storm with so many incredible clients and couples. We love you!!!

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03/08/2021

Micro-wedding Private Island Estate inspiration + bliss ✨

Hell yes, we miss boisterous, beautiful, fun-filled celebrations with ALL of your favorites. But I have to applaud so many of my couples embracing the intimacy and personalization that gives small celebrations big personality.

Grateful to all of these rockstar vendors who made this style dream come true.

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09/22/2020

Space + time⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A luxury often taken for granted, unless you are some place outside of your norm; away from responsibility, on vacation, feeling physical whole, in flow state, purposefully filling your lungs with fresh, clean air...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Computer crash, hand stitches, sick baby, full schedule... time and space are here, somewhere! We got this! xo

08/08/2020

This Maine summer of us.

No doubt 2020 has been a year or trial and innovation, fear and freedom, twists and turns. My heart has broken and mended, jumped in the chilly Maine ocean, hiked mountains, taken midday naps with our little love, enjoyed unhurried evenings with our small bubble of family, soaked up sweet vitamin D, taken slow walks with long conversations, studied and lived motherhood and offered me time to support Michael on his new and courageous business endeavors.

It’s been the summer of our dreams. I feel simultaneously torn in two by pain and hustle it has brought so many of our clients with complicated rescheduling of anticipated celebrations AND the happiness it has brought my heart to indulge in this childhood-like delicious summertime. Guilt and pleasure.

But if we do not lean into and live our lives, how do we really show up when it matters most? We are beyond grateful for this time of respite and now eager for the crew gorgeous and special elopements, micro weddings, lifestyle and interior shoots coming up in the next months!!

Little Wellie and us at Kettle Cove by

06/02/2020

04/19/2020

Love

04/17/2020

A plunging neckline, a deep back line, timeless simplicity. What do you envision your wedding dress as? Simple? Lace? A soft color?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

04/16/2020

Connection.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Remember when we were free of worry hugging a friend or family member that didn't share the same roof? Hold on to those you are sheltered with closely or make a point to schedule a video call with those you love. Social distancing is our protection, but isolation can be a fickle friend. When you're feeling lonely, anxious, scared or stir crazy, phone a friend (or give us a call!). We're all in this together.

11/28/2019

We love celebrating this day of gratitude and the chance to reflect and share all that we’re grateful for! While we try to make a habit of this each night before bed, it’s usually the little things we love in each day. On the car ride to see family, we dove deep into our hearts and really took a step outside ourselves to appreciate all that we have. Being the goal oriented people that we are, our sentences often start with “when we can just get this done...” and end with “then we will have time to” or “then we will be proud” or “then we will be happy”. What about now. We’re only 4 weeks out fro meeting the new little love of our lives and we couldn’t be happier .

Grateful to be looking ahead to many tiny moments of family with our beautiful baby girl to help us slow down a little a relish all the time we can together.

Our hearts are alway full knowing we can capture a little bit of this in other people’s lives, frame by frame. We love you and are beyond grateful to be a part of so many of your love stories. ✨
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09/10/2019

Big laughs, little moments and all the joy you can handle on a day that celebrates your love and connection.

It’s easy to get distracted by to-do’s and tasks and forget to take time for what’s most important - the people, the love and the feelings of your best life. .the.kait and are certainly inspiration to us in this aspect - always making time for friends, their pup summer and life’s little moments of joy. 😘✨

09/05/2019

Two of our favorite humans are getting married tomorrow in !! It’s going to be a fun one - here we go!! ✨ 🌊
@ Casco Bay Islands

08/22/2019

A simple, yet elegant tablescape by at Caroline + Joe’s stunning Sunningdale Lodge wedding ✨
@ Sunningdale Lodge

08/19/2019

A plunging neckline, timeless simplicity. What do you envision your wedding dress as? Minimal and elegant? Romantic? Lace? A soft color?

08/17/2019

Sweet nature, let me get lost with my favorite person in you..🌱⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀