2024 Santa Christmas Minis

We chose this years sets with nothing more than inspiration from old Norman Rockwell Paintings, with the sole purpose of bringing back the classic magic of Christmas!
We will be hosting our Santa meet and greet in what we call the Peppermint Room, which is classic enough to wear formal attire yet homey and comfortable enough to where wearing pajamas is perfectly acceptable!

Photos with Santa are to be held on November 11th from 12pm to 4pm and are on a first come first serve basis via booking.

Photos with Mrs. Klaus are to be held on a separate date which is still to be determined.

To book your session you can email us at CMeadowsPhotography@gmail.com
After booking you will receive a detailed email and prep packet on what to expect next and how to prepare for and get the most out of your Christmas experience!
To view more of Santa Wards work and see the other services he offers visit him over at

Santa Christmas Magic

Our sessions with Mrs Klaus are 15 minutes long and will give your child the chance to hear what it’s like living at the North Pole and learn which Christmas cookies are Santas favorite!
Sprinkles with Mrs Kringle’s is a great interactive set and is ideal for older children and families. To get the most variety out of this Christmas set Mrs. K is more than willing to step out to check on the elves so you can get individual photos of the kids in the kitchen or photos with the whole family!

You will leave this session with not only memories that will last a lifetime but also a goodie bag which will include sweets as well as a special print out for a recipe you can make to leave out for Santa Christmas Eve!

Don’t worry, Mrs. Klaus will be sure to tell the children that any cookie or desert made with love taste the best!
If you have a traditional recipe you and your family make during the holidays please send it to us prior to your session so we can print it out and present it as Santa’s favorite!

M Milk Bath Maternity

Hey 2021, long time no blog!
That was lame, sorry, I rely on the fact that nobody ever reads these! So this blog was drafted in June, I haven’t blogged since Mayish of last year but I have about 30 blogs drafted so the next few weeks will be me attempting to write blogs. Fun stuff.
But at least there’s tons to say about this fun milk bath photoshoot I did with a then very pregnant Mama M!
Mama M special requested a milk bath for her rainbow baby and I’ll admit I didn’t realize just how challenging it would be.

All the maternity milk baths you see on Pinterest take place in an actual bathtub, but, I have to big as dramatic as possible and had to shoot it in an actual full length blow up pool! Now, it’s been so long ago but I’m pretty sure when we did this shoot it was about two months after that 15 day flatten the curve so all pools were either sold out or they were $80 on amazon, because everyone was stuck home with their kids and was just trying to find a way to keep them busy.
Thankfully one of my long time clients/buddies had a blow up pool available for us to use, but the only hold up was I had to drive 45m out to the country to get it, ducks had been using it so it was extra dirty, andddd there was a small hole in the side. I can’t complain at all though, I was super fortunate she was even allowing me to use it! (and she had cleaned it up quiet a bit before I picked it up so I’m really not complaining, just getting those 1000 words lol)
The pool was so big we also had to set it up outside, instead of in my home studio, and we had to keep filling it with water, because of the small leak, AND it was threatening to rain the whole time we were shooting, BUT it was well worth it though to bring our vision to life.

Mama M was and always is the most complying model and was absolutely amazing when the water started getting cold and her neck started hurting. I can’t thank her enough for going out of her comfort zone to bring both of our visions to life, and I’d say I can’t wait to meet her sweet baby girl but I’m planning her first birthday cake smash next month!

G First Birthday Cake Smash

Good lord this blog was drafted in September of last year, even worse, I think it was shot months before that!Any who, here’s a super handsome little man with the prettiest blue eyes!
Baby G & his parents came to me for his Wild Ones themed First birthday Cake Smash and he was just the sweetest baby with such a big personality! He laughed at all my jokes, tolerated all his outfit changes, and loveddddd his cake! His parents were okay too I guess :)

Pregnancy Announcement

So I think it’s safe to share this families pregnancy announcement blog now, considering their baby boy is now one month old. Mama K is one of the MVP’s of CMP, I did her senior photos in High school (don’t want to admit how long ago that was), I shot her baby boy when he was first born, and after this announcement I was fortunate enough to shoot her maternity session!
I found this location on the way to my brothers house wayyyy out in the country and was dying to use it, so naturally when K & B asked me to shoot their pregnancy announcement I knew just the place!
These pregnancy announcement pictures came out perfect, but I did have the cutest models to work with! Big Brother O was very excited that he had a new baby on the way and I can’t thank these guys enough for entrusting me with their secret! I kept it wayyyy longer than necessary!!!

M Family Session

One of the biggest compliments you can ever get as a photographer is having clients that continue to come back to you and I was so happy when the beautiful Mama M contacted me about getting up to date family photos/Baby M’s 18month pictures! I had the pleasure of photographing Baby M (now big boy M) last year when he was 6 months old and he was nothing but rolls and a big ball of happiness. Not too much had changed since that time, except now that he’s mobile he’s lost some of those precious precious rolls but he was just as attentive and sweet as ever! I guess you’re extra smart too when your Mama is a teacher and has had extra time home with you…

Just like our prior session it was an insanely hot day in Nashville and of course our location required a bit of hiking to get to. I felt so bad for Papa M who had already been working outside all day but none of them complained once. I was sweating by the time we got to the lakeside but somehow Mama M & Papa M still looked perfect! I guess I’m just really out of shape. Baby M was so well behaved and was so attentive to everything we were doing, he was probably the easiest baby to get to look at the camera. He was in such a good mood for his photoshoot, he didn’t care who was holding him, which made family photos so easy, or what he was doing, he was just happy to be out on an adventure!

We thankfully avoided all the rain that had been looming all week, this was the first nice day in a while and we had already had to reschedule once or twice, and I couldn’t have picked a nicer family to work with. Baby M got to model one of the new outfits I have available for little boys and he was the perfect baby bear. He also loved the chair I had brought for him and kept sitting in it no matter where I moved it. He even tried to sit in it when I was trying to put it up, it was the cutest thing. My favorite part of the session though was when his parents had him identify all his body parts, which you can see in some of the photos below. He was starting to get tired so to keep his attention we asked him to find his belly, his nose, and his ears, and he got every single one!!! Oh, and his Chris Farley impression was pretty dang spot on

J At home newborn session

Things that happened just a month ago or so really seem like they happened a year ago at this point. Going through so many of my recent sessions I realize that even though everything still seems to be at a standstill, time has gone by insanely fast! Take this little handsome booger… after seeing some of his most recent photos his mama has shared, he doesn’t even look like the same baby anymore! This precious newborn boy now looks like a handsome full grown man and I’m so glad I was able to go over to his parents house for his newborn photos before he made the jump!

Sweet Baby J has some minor (what seems like minor now of course) hiccups when he was first born so we really hesitated on when we were going to do his newborn photos. We originally decided to wait a month to do his newborn photos but after seeing how much he changed in the first week Mama made the call to have his photos done early! I was fortunate enough that this amazing family allowed me into their home during such an insane time and despite what I can only imagine was sleep deprivation, both Mama and Papa both looked like super models and made everything so insanely easy! Baby J was such a great sleeper too, he was so well behaved through all his newborn photos and transitioned through sets with ease. We did a combination of jungle themed newborn photos and incorporated the fact that his father is a professional football player into his photoshoot but my favorite photos are definitely the family photos!

J Family Lifestyle Newborn Session

So, I talk all the time about how do my newborn sessions at my home studio or on location outdoors but did you know I’ll come to your house? Especially if your home is as cute as Mama A’s and Papa B’s! (or if you have animals as cute as theirs). If you read my last blog you'd know this, stay focused. I offer at home Newborn Family/Lifestyle Sessions and you have your choice of adding on a miniature ‘studio’ portion to that shoot and we went all out for sweet Baby M’s session!

If you didn’t know any better you would think this family was assembled by some modeling agencies for some magazine shoot to promote a product, but no. They’re just that perfect. Mama A is so exceptionally bubbly, energetic, kind, fit, and of course a knock out, which is hard to believe considering she had just given birth about 10 days before. Papa B is a funny, well rounded, very charming, handsome and talented musician from Memphis Tennessee and together, with their dogs skittles and the dogs name I can’t remember but it has something to do with Hawaii and starts with K, and their newborn daughter M, they make the most picture perfect family!

Now I’ll say this… generally Baby boys are much more relaxed throughout newborn sessions. Baby girls just have a lot more to say! However, Baby M literally didn’t make a peep our whole session and did every little pose I put her into! She spoiled me rotten. I really had to narrow down how many I was going to share because literally every image was just amazing! She also spent most of her time naked farting and stressing us all out, thinking that she was going to use the potty on Mama’s view or Papa’s guitar. Little lady held out for us though right until Papa B was trying to put her diaper back on her in the other room. Thanks Baby M, you’re a real trooper and I hope all my future little ladies are as wonderful as you were!

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L Graduation Session

I’m finally fully in the month of October in the catch up process to blogging form last year!
It’s not often I get to work with adults, much less adults by themselves, but thankfully this Russian princess felt obligated from our years of knowing one another to have me take her gradation photos!
I’ve forced L to model for me before but it was wonderful to photograph her in a more natural setting. We both realized how out of shape we were (more so me) after our hike to this location, which has become one of my favorites, and thankfully made it there before the other 4 photographers behind us! Despite not having worked together for years L jumped right back into pro model mode. She’s one of those people who it’s almost hard to get a photo of. She’s beautiful at ever angle and could wear a potato sac and still look like a movie star.

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M Maternity

I’m really late to the game on the blogs because Mama M has already had her sweet Baby B and she’s a few months old now but this session is too good not to share! I was fortunate enough to do Maternity photos when Mama M was still pregnant with Baby (Now big Sister) S and we thought it would be really hard to top! We both racked our brains for a creative theme or unique location, what color dress to use, anything to make this time around more memorable than the first, and after Mama M looked through my galleries a few times and picked a session that was her most favorite and we went with that!
The downfall of the look we were going for… this time of year, Nashville weather is super unpredictable. I don’t think we’ve had a proper sunset in a long time because by the end of the day it’s always gloom and doom and no chance of catching golden hour. Plus, if we did somehow catch golden hour, that’s when all the instagramers are out cruising the streets and they will fight you for a spot for photos (it’s not that big of a deal guys, there’s plenty of room for all of us, and if not I’m definitely stronger than you). So, we had to plan on sunrise! Sunrise this time of year is about 6:40AM, and about 6:40AM in the morning it’s about 30 degrees. We were also in one of the most open patches of land in that area and it was extra windy. Needless to say, it was freezing cold. Mama M handled it like a champ though and, despite feeling out of the ‘modeling game’ and not much like herself she looked like a supermodel for her session and gave me some of my favorite maternity photos ever!
Sadly Papa D wasn’t able to make it to the session because he was working but Baby S was wide awake and Coco (never known as Grandmother) was a great cheerleader and kept Baby S happy! Also, despite looking just like Daddy, Baby S has her Mama’s modeling skills!

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T Milk and Cookies Cake Smash

Two Cake Smashes in a row? You’re welcome!
One of my last sessions of last year was one I was actually really sad to do! The, hopefully for their sake, last of the DW children just turned one and she’s just as wonderful as the rest of the family. Baby T has all the spunk and energy of all the DW children combined and it’s probably lucky she was the last one, otherwise I don’t know how they’d keep up! (Actually, her Big Sister R is probably the spunkiest, but she wasn’t here for this session so I can’t compare) Her Mama came up with the creative idea of doing a Milk and Cookies themed Cake Smash and we still tried to keep it as natural and dainty as possible to keep the attention on little lady. Her Mama made all the adorable glass jars and while we considered only doing a big plate of cookies I couldn’t help but still throw a cake into the mix for her. Spoiler alert, her and all of her siblings were only interested in the store bought cookies.
Don’t be fooled by her drinking really cute out of her glass jar too, we had a lot of faith in her for not spilling it and the very first thing she did after those first few photos was knock the glass jar over and get it everywhere.

L Mickey Mouse Cake Smash

I feel like I say this about every session but Cake Smashes are definitely one of my favorites! Sadly, last year I only did about 3 to 4 a month, which sounds like a lot, but it’s not!!! Out of all the Cake Smashes I’ve ever done though I’ve literally only had a request for Mickey Mouse about 3 times, which is again, another big shocker. Especially with Mickey Mouse Club House being so big I was half expecting to do at least two a month (but last year was all about Mermaids and Neutrals) so I was really excited when Mama C requested this!!!

My very first CS session was Mickey Mouse and that was over 5 years ago and the set looked much different from nowadays but, still classic in my book! I was fortunate enough I had lots of decorations from a friends Babies Birthday party and was able to alter most of them to fit this theme. This little man was so incredibly sweet and if I had let him he would have sat there and picked at his cake all day, it was very obvious he loved the icing and was very talkative about it!

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A & Q Sunflower Maternity Session

This year I’ve gotten to knock lot off of bucket list, but by far this might be one of the things I’ve been waiting the longest to do! Nashville is known for its many beautiful parks but my God Sunflower Fields have been illusive to me. There are several farms that have them but generally, or to my understanding, a full fledge photoshoot there isn’t an option. When I actually found a promising one last year that grows sunflowers every year it turns out that the harvest hadn’t done good that year and they had nothing… SOOOO… after many years of waiting I was finally able to do a quick maternity photoshoot with the real life Prince Charming and Princess Cinderella! A & Q are a dream come true and I like to live vicariously through them and all their glory. Now that they’re expecting a baby girl, who has the best name, I feel like everything has come full circle! I can’t wait to meet sweet Baby A and can’t express how happy I am for both A & Q! Thank you guys for being such fantastic models and so willing to come out on such short notice!!!

If you’re here from Pinterest you’re going to be highly disappointed because the very last image is the only one of its kind, as the rest didn’t seem to look as good with the dramatic sky. Hopefully you still enjoy the rest of the images in this mini gallery though!

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Baby S Sunflower Milk Bath

Today is Mama J’s, otherwise known as Baby S, first Birthday and we’re all over here crying! I remember Mama M and I discussing her first birthday before she was born and sharing all the ideas we had for her first birthday photoshoot and Cake smash! One year later we definitely didn’t do any of them, however we’ve basically done everything else under the sun. I think she’s been on my blog, published and unpublished posts, more than anyone this year and next year we’ll be adding her baby sister B into the fix so you can expect to be heavily spammed by this family for many years to come!!!

After weeks of being torn between doing a fruit bath or a milk bath we compromised and are going to do both. Seeing as it’s August and basically Fall we decided to try and keep the florals away from the pastel realm and does it really matter what I type? Is anyone still reading? I care though, gotta hit those google keywords! Sunflowers! We decided on sunflowers and thankfully I have an abundance of fake ones and Mama M had some dollar store sunflowers she’s had for over 4 years to add to the mix! We went out to the same park we did her sisters gender reveal/pregnancy announcement and set up near the creek! J hates headbands so we were really worried about her keeping it on throughout her session but thankfully all the sunflowers and splashing around in the milk was enough to keep her distracted for about 5 minutes! Still haven’t gotten the smiling down, even after a year of modeling, but we have the smoldering down to a T! We’ll work on it next year, and hopefully next week we’ll be sharing her Cake Smash!

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T & M Engagement Session

So here’s a blog out of the norm for me, we’ve got some engagement photos!!!! I’m known as Nashville’s family/newborn photographer, which I love, but I don’t get to see just adults often! (Sorry I’m trying to hit all those google keywords guys) This blog is actually some months old, at this point, these two knockouts are already married and have been on their honeymoon and came home!

These guys drove probably an hour to meet me way out in the country, an hour or so before the sun went down and we bust

After years of watching ID, every unknown person in an unfamiliar area or noise in the woods makes you hyper vigilant. For us, while we were already shooting in the spooky/skeptical barn, far away from our cars, there was someone driving around in the forest on a four wheeler, hooting and hollering. While I had shot on this property before and had no issue what so ever, I kept expecting them to come out at some point and block us off from the ladder that lead to our only escape and we’d just all die there, in the field in a barn, and they’d steal all my camera gear (Which would have been more upsetting). These guys toughed it out though, despite all my complaining and made the best models! No matter what silly prompt I gave them or stupid joke I told them, they laughed, they did whatever, and they made the shoot so much fun!

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M Family Session

This year has been the year of Baby number two for many families and none took me by surprise as much as the M families!

(A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one)

To see Baby E’s newborn session with his big sister and Mama check out the link below!

http://www.chelseameadowsphotography.com/blog/2019/4/26/e-newborn-session

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E & J Elopement

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B Family Tea Party

Over the last few months I’ve been expected to keep lots of big secrets but this one might have been one of the hardest!!! It took about 15 weeks for Mama M & Papa D to spill the beans that they were expecting again but dang was the payoff worth it!!!!! Mama M & I struggled for a little while trying to pick the perfect theme for their gender reveal and after going weeks of thinking Baby #2 was going to be a boy Mama and having that planned in our minds, she finally got the great news that it was another girl and we just had to bust out the pink frill!

With her first pregnancy she took away the joy of me being able to share in all the splendor (just kidding guys) so throughout this pregnancy we’ve made the plans to go all out!

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S & T Maternity Session

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of marking something off my bucket list that I never thought I’d get the chance to because, one, horses and their giant people teeth freak me out, and two, no animal ever listens like you need it to for photos. When S told me her horses would do everything we needed them to and were very well behaved I didn’t believe her and just figured we’d wing it but boy was I wrong!!! This session exceeded every expectation I would have ever had and I am soooo thrilled and in love with every images!

Like seriously, this session is something out of a fairytale and everything just fell together so nicely I am still amazed that some of these images are even mine! Mama S and I had been discussing her session for weeks but her Sister in law, my friend B, had been planning her session for much longer and had contacted months before! I had met Mama S and her soon to be husband T at the beginning of her pregnancy and she was just as cute as could be and I knew from that first meeting I wanted to do her maternity photos (No one actually books me, I just go out scouting people and bully them into a session). Seven months later I was driving around the Harpeth trying to figure out where the hell she lived. We were already about 30 minutes behind seeing as I lost track of time at my previous session (which was easy to because they were so wonderful) and THANK GOD her ultra sound ran over, so it wasn’t totally fault. After calling her ten times in a panic, because I hate getting lost, I finally found her house and we immediately headed towards her grandmothers. I was at the tail end of the line of 3 cars we had created and fell behind. For some reason the undercover cop that I passed decided to flash me (though Papa T was going WAYYY faster than I was) and if he had actually turned around to come get me, I’ll never know, because right when I went into the turn I saw the back of B’s car going down a driveway and immediately sped in behind her.

S’s grandparents home was incredibly beautiful, there were wild flowers growing everywhere, tons of horses, dogs, and two cats so I was in animal heaven. Mama S has such natural beauty that B only had to spend about 10 minutes fixing her hair and Papa T was so handsome he didn’t even have to take off his hat and sunglasses…. but we made him anyways.

I had the exact opposite problem I thought I would have for this session, I thought we’d be having to chase the horses down to make them stand still for two seconds but I was literally having to make horses leave because they kept getting into everything! I turned around at one point and one of them was in my camera bag and took a few steps back throughout our session and bumped into a horse that was standing very close by. They were all so amazingly sweet and kept nuzzling up to Mama S the whole session. Their dogs were just as bad and were literally on our heels the whole shoot! They even chased us down to the creek whenever we got on the golf cart and were into everything. I kept thinking that I would just edit them out of a lot of the shots when I got home but them being in the photos is what makes a lot of the shots!

The big horse in the photos is her prize horse and the other horse is their daughter, who mind you, hasn’t even been born yet, pony!!! Growing up we all dream of having a pony, hell I still want one, but soon to be Baby R already has one!!!

For a couple that never has their photos made I barely had to direct the two, they made my job soooo incredibly easy and if it wasn’t getting dark I would have kept them out all night! S was just beautiful no mater what she did and all of her movements with T were so natural it made for some incredibly genuine photos, which are hard to fake. You always know how much a couple truly loves each other based on their interactions together and seeing S & T together will make any girl hate her boyfriend! T and S are going to make amazing parents and not only did Baby R win the genetic lottery but she’s lucky enough to have born into a family where she’ll grow up knowing her parents were truly made for one another! I so look forward to doing her newborn photos and seeing this family again!

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T, N, & R Announcement!

I’ve been having to keep lots of secrets for lots of people recently but I can FINALLY share the big news that the H family is growing by 1! Mama T is pregnant with Baby number 2 and told me when she was around 8 or so weeks I didn’t think I’d be able to keep it to myself… thankfully she also shared the big secret with some mutual friends so we could gossip about how excited we were about it!

It’s been forever since I’ve been able to do a gender reveal and somehow Mama T always manages to make things 10 times more glamourous. Between their incredibly coordinated outfits for Family photos and the amazing props she brought along with her I just basically had to show up and they did the rest of the work, I always feel very guilty working with them!

Capturing R’s first year was so amazing, I still have some of his Newborn Cake Smash photos in my portfolio today, I’m so honored they’ve stuck with me over the years and hope Baby number 2 likes me as much as R does!!! (Sometimes) I also hope they know that I’m going to be bullying my way into every part of her pregnancy now… maybe even the delivery room for Birth Photos… get ready T

Ballon - Vroom Vroom Balloon

Cards- Blossom and Pear

Wooden Rattle - Bannor Toys

Can anyone guess what she’s having?… All of you already know, I’m weeks late! The H family is expecting another little boy!!!

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B Mini Session

I started photography wanting to excessively working with professional models but I quickly dropped that narrow-mindedness and now 5 years later I work almost exclusively with children! It’s definitely been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made because working with kids is always a wild, unpredictable ride. The energy is definitely wasn’t on the youth, I feel like I always get a days worth of steps in working with kids and this little lady definitely gave me a run for my money! B and her Grandmother and Grandfather originally met me on a day a freak tsunami hit Nashville. The day started beautiful, got slightly overcast, and by the time we got to our session location it was pouring!!! It was also thundering very very loudly, enough to scare me, and even though we tried to wait it out, it just wasn’t going to happen. Despite all this madness going on little Miss B was amazingly friendly and open to meeting someone new and was so excited to take photos (though it didn’t happen that day). I actually kind of cheated by winning her over, it wasn’t my charming personality she like, but she loved looking at all my bows, trying on dresses, and singing Let it Go while spinning in said dresses. She was so very social and it was so sweet to see how crazy she was about her Grandparents, who were also the kindest most patient people. I kept telling them, this is Nashville weather, it’ll pass it 5 minutes… it didn’t pass. Though the made the long drive out to meet me they were super understanding and were completely understanding and willing to reschedule, despite them only being in town for a few days.

After having to reschedule two more times we finally managed to shoot on Easter morning and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect! Surprisingly there were also 100 other people out enjoying the nice weather, which kind of blew my mind because ya know… it was Easter Sunday. B, who had now had to wait 3 separate times for us to actually shoot, was a ball of energy and optimism for our photoshoot! She ran through the flowers probably a dozen times, picked several for her Grandmother and me, and once again spent the whole session twirling! Energy is wasted on the youth… I wish I got that excited about anything and had that much energy for… anything. She was the most perfect model and it was definetly worth the wait! It’s always so nice seeing children who are so well behaved, kind, and just absolutely LOVE the outdoors! She probably feel 5 times running through the field but just got right back up and kept on trucking! Her grandmother has told me that they plan on bringing her back to me at some point so I’m already planning on what fun and excited adventure we can all do together next time!

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