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A VT Wedding on the Shores of Lake Champlain Paige and Raymond’s wedding day was, in my opinion, the way every single wedding day should be treated. It was FULL of sentimental family heirlooms, family traditions, and family history. Nothing was done for show or because they felt they had to do it because that’s […]

Paige & Raymond | Married

June 10, 2025

Weddings

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A Lake George Summer Engagement Session Those clients that know they want me to photograph their special day from day 1. The ones that can’t imagine anyone else capturing their special day. The ones who reach out AS SOON AS THEY GET ENGAGED. Those are my people. AKA – MacKenzie & Jordan. I’ll be honest, […]

MacKenzie + Jordan | Engaged

May 15, 2025

Engagements

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A Lake Champlain Wedding Celebration at the Historic Valcour Inn & Boathouse How fun it’s been to revisit all of these amazing celebrations and couples I’ve had the privilege of photographing over the years. I still have so many more couples to highlight on here so we’re continuing on! Introducing Mr. + Mrs. Worthington! Venue: […]

Jill + Eric | Married

May 14, 2025

Weddings

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A summer micro wedding at the North Hero House Operation “Catch up the EMP blog” continues with Amanda and Bryan! I remember this being the start of my love for micro weddings which became super popular after Covid reared it’s ugly head at the world. If you aren’t familiar, micro weddings are basically just full […]

Amanda + Bryan | Married

May 14, 2025

Weddings

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A Glowy Summer Golf Course Wedding This is me, trying to catch up on the seemingly impossible task of catching my blog up on all of the amazing sessions and weddings I’ve had the honor of photographing over the past 3 years. The truth is, my business took off and blogging fell to the wayside. […]

Savanna-Lin + Ben | Married

May 14, 2025

Weddings

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An extended celebration on the shores of Lake Champlain What’s better than photographing a beautiful couple once? Getting to do it twice 😉 Claire and Matt were one of my “Covid Couples” meaning, they still went ahead with their planned celebration (just on a smaller scale) and held off on their larger celebration until a […]

Claire + Matt Wedding 2.0

May 14, 2025

Weddings

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Mom, wife, photographer, and passionate entrepreneur constantly dreaming up ways to fuel my creative fire. Here on the blog you'll find past sessions in a curated gallery to show what you can expect when you hire EMP.

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A Smoke Signals Wedding in Lake Placid, New York Sometimes I think that educating my brides on the best photography friendly timeline is the best thing, what could go wrong right? Well nothing actually, unless you’re like me, or Jesse-May, and like to stick by timelines and get stressed out if things run late. This […]

Weddings

October 14, 2019

Jesse-May & Austin | Married

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A Camp Pok-O-MacCready Engagement Session This one is for the books guys, just wait until you see these incredible images!!! That makes me sound like I’m tooting my own horn but when you have a super fun couple in the perfect location, with the perfect lighting, you get great images! That’s all there is to […]

Engagements

October 10, 2019

Michaela & Alex | Engaged

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An End of Summer Adirondack Engagement Session It feels funny titling this post as “Engaged” because technically these two are already married! You see, Amine is from Morocco, which is where he and Hannah were married back in November. They are now planning a stateside wedding to happen THIS November for their American friends and […]

Engagements

October 9, 2019

Hannah & Amine | Engaged

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Ausable Point Beach Maternity Session Let’s do a little math…add 1 extremely photogenic couple + 1 beautiful soft sand beach + golden hour…what does that equal? 3 heart eye emojis aka 1 VERY HAPPY Erin Marie Photography. Word of mouth is probably the most effective form of referrals I get for my business and because […]

Portraits

October 7, 2019

Jenna & Mike | Maternity Session

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Lake Placid, New York Picture this. You take a trip up to one of your favorite winter vacation spots that you’ve visited for the past 4 years. You have exciting plans, you’re with your favorite person, and you’re in a gorgeous winter setting. Everything seems perfect, until it’s not. In February, this was the reality […]

Portraits

October 4, 2019

Annie & Des | A Whiteface Portrait Session

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2019 is the year that all of my original bookings are coming to an end…what do I mean by that? All of the weddings I booked within my first year in business, the OG #erinmariecouples if you will 😉 , when I became brave enough to start accepting weddings back in December of 2017, have […]

Weddings

September 17, 2019

Mikaela & Tyler | Married

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A Quaint and Romantic Adirondack Wedding This wedding was a unique one for me because I was only there for 2 hours instead of my normal 8! I don’t normally offer shortened wedding day timelines but I made an exception for this one and I’m so glad I did! Audrey and Andrew’s special day was […]

Weddings

September 11, 2019

Audrey & Andrew | Married

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Before I start this blog post, I have to say a massive thank you to everyone who has been following along on my motherhood journey with me. I honestly can’t believe the amount of people who are invested in my new life chapter, and I’m so grateful. I now know how amazingly overwhelming being a […]

Personal

September 5, 2019

Life With A Newborn | Grace’s 3 Month Check-in

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A Romantic Barn Wedding | Castleton-on-Hudson For their engagement session, they drove to me. It was a very overcast and rainy day, the trees were still naked without a leaf in sight, and I was VERY pregnant and in a lot of pain…I seemed to have everything working against me. I was nervous because I […]

Weddings

August 30, 2019

Carlene & Andrew | Married

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Point au Roche Engagement Session Me walking in the door from a session. Husband: Hey! How was it? Me: It was great! They are such a sweet couple, we had so much fun! Husband: …You say that about every couple… And he’s right!! I really do say that about every couple, but it’s because it’s […]

Engagements

August 18, 2019

Shonna & Josh | Engaged

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