Photographing your wedding day details is one of my absolute favorite parts of your wedding day!  Most often, I begin your wedding day by collecting your details from you and finding a small space to stylize and photograph them to best represent the style of your day!   By doing this, it allows me to prepare […]

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10 Must-Have Wedding Day Details

I have been just terrible at keeping up the blog this winter.  Call it the winter blues or seasonal depression, but I just go into hibernation mode…crawl into a blanket on the couch and drink hot cocoa! But thankfully Toni pulled me out into the snow for some gorgeous maternity photos and OF COURSE I […]

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Maternity

Snowy Maternity

The morning after a January snow storm, Joe & Marcia woke up to their long-awaited wedding day!  The sun sparkled on the newly fallen snow and added to the brightness of their love as they got married in the sweetest, most intimate ceremony.   I met Joe before he had even met Marci – we photographed […]

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Weddings

Joe & Marcia : Iowa Winter Wedding

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I’ve come to learn that in business, not everything that comes your way is a fit for your business.  Sometimes you have to say, “No” to someone simply because your styles don’t resonate (and with photography it’s SO important because it’s SO personal).  As Rachel Hollis would say, “If it’s not a HE** YES then […]

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Kristin & Brandon : Elegant Library Wedding

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It’s November.  It’s STILL FALL.  So why doesn’t it feel like it?!?!  These poor lovebirds had to brave this unbearably frigid temp to get some fall engagement photos!! I LOVE fall!! What happened?!?!  Either way, we still ended up with some pretty gorgeous engagement photos!!  We started with a fall-looking feel (our front yard!) and […]

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Engagements, Sweetheart

Amy & David : Fall (winter?) Engagements

Sarah and Daniel couldn’t have gotten married on a windier day!!  Seriously.  The farmers were out harvesting and the corn husks were flyyyying by the church windows as Sarah & Daniel tied the knot!  But what really “blew” me away (hahaha get it??? 😉 was Sarah & Daniel’s sweet love for each other!  I’m usually […]

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Weddings

Sarah & Daniel : Eastern Iowa Wedding

You know how sometimes you have these people in your life that always hold a special nugget of space in your heart?   That’s Hannah. Hannah and her family lived in Clinton for a short-ish amount of time, but in that amount of time I found a beautiful friend!  While photographing her wedding we reminisced about […]

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Hannah & Matt : Vintage Chic Michigan Wedding

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It’s all in a name.  Elyse. Ted.  These names mean the world to this beautiful couple – they way their names roll off their tongues is “delicious”, as Elyse would say.  Elyse & Ted wrote their own meaningful words to each other during their ceremony and the resemblance between the two was uncanny.  Elyse spoke […]

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Weddings

Elyse & Ted : Classic hotelVetro Wedding

Bianca has some amazing friends!  How do I know this?  Because we have multiple friends in common from college!  Even though we’re all spread out now, I still sure miss those gals!   A few years ago we were blessed with the opportunity to photograph one of those friends’ weddings (Hey, Stacie!) and Bianca was a […]

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Engagements, Sweetheart

Bianca & Luke : Engaged

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