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I’m always amazed at how connections are made and how clients find us. Months ago I got an inquiry from a new business in town that needed a photographer for their ribbon cutting and business launch. They found us through a wedding venue coordinator we work with often. I shot that event, met a lot of people and got to celebrate in incredible business. On that day I met Scott, having no idea he was engaged OR that he would soon be in need of a photographer for his stateside wedding. 

Super excited to share this wedding with you all as I’ve been cheering Erin and Frank on since I met them almost 3 years ago in July when they took a cute picture on IG in front of our 4th of July parade float and tagged us in it! We are sooo bummed we can’t join them in Mexico for their destination wedding, but when these lovebirds asked me to shoot their stateside wedding, I of course said Yes. These two are champions (well literally too cause they are fitness models and win all the time at their competitions) but beyond that, they are sweet, amazing, sooo kind and totally in love. Like the kind dreams are made of! Erin and Frank, Patrick and I are sooo excited for what’s ahead for you. We think the world of you and can’t wait to see what unfolds for you. And you know I’ll be stalking your Mexico wedding so be sure to have someone IG’ing all the behind the scenes of your incredible day! xo

Super excited to share this November wedding with you! Melissa and Kevin first off are probably some of the most easy going clients we’ve had all year, and that says a lot because most of our couples are that way. But these guys, holy moly. I’ll give you lots of examples. First example… their engagement. Seriously one of the coldest days of 2019, and it was a sunrise cherry blossom session… they smiled the whole time, while melissa couldn’t feel her toes, her hands, her smile, anything. But her laughter is contagious, allowing the rest of us to just have so much fun. 

Every wedding has moments for me that say engrained in my head. The things that stick out the most for me for their wedding include a really amazing mother father and daughter reveal as well as Carly’s first dance with her dad as a married woman. Although Josh is a reserved groom he is so kind and so sweet. One of my favorite segments of the day was photographing Carlee and Josh with Patrick out in the field at sunset. Sunset was creeping up in the sky opened up for them with gorgeous colors. We are thankful that Josh and Carlee trusted us to steal them from reception to take them out into the middle of the field. They told us they wouldn’t have it any other way and all they cared about was gorgeous photos and time together. What a combo. The whole day was fun. The girls drove over in an RV motorhome that belongs to her Uncle. It was so cold and Carlee was so accommodating… We were outside so much of the day because the weather was beautiful, just chilly. As I tell all of our couples cold is still great weather. What I loved most about Carlee’s day is how much she trusted us to document a day full of moments and of people and family. 

Stone ridge Hollow is a beautiful venue we had never shot there. We were so excited to shoot there because we had heard so many great things about the property. So much variety so many places to take killer photos of our couple. Some of my favorite moments of the day was Trevor seeing Stephanie for the first time. I got emotional when Stephanie’s dad walked in for the first time and saw her fully complete head to toe and again as a bride.

What a day you had! One of our favorites from October. We were looking forward to this wedding so much. After a really fun engagement session with these two at the beach we knew the day would whole lots of surprising moments and tons of laughter. Turf Valley is such a cool venue because of the ceremony space in the variety of reception ballrooms. These guys had a beautiful first look out in front of trees that were fiery orange and had already changed into beautiful fall colors. The first look was amazing… Tyler was nervous and so excited to see his bride Kaity was in a gorgeous Kleinfeld dress and so excited to walk and see her man. Once they saw each other the rest of the day was pure fun. These two together crack me up. They are both sweet with each other honest and playful. As soon as we added the bridal party and it was quite the day. So much laughter inappropriate jokes made and photos to prove it.

Kelsey and Matt were one of our mid October weddings and we couldn’t be more excited to share this Turf Valley wedding with you!

Kelsey and Matt were such an amazing couple to work with. We knew the day would be fast and furious with a ceremony ending really close to sunset. But for us, if just meant that there would be strategic and beautiful photos for this couple.

Lauren and Dan… What can we say??? You guys were so much fun to work with! Your wedding day was really special. We absolutely loved that you had a small and intimate wedding party and a small guest count. Intimate is the word I would use for your wedding day. The love you guys have for each other is so evident, I mean look at your photos. The laughter you cause each other to release is what we wish for our couples for years to come! Even when you came to our house for your gallery reveal, we felt like we were with friends, not just one of our couples. You even cozied up with each as you look through photos!

I’ll never forget when Heather sat at my kitchen table in our new home and told leaned over to KC and told him she was going to have to cancel their next meeting. As in they had planned to meet another photographer that night after us, and decided not to. They booked us at our table that night and the rest is history! The only thing that could’ve made this wedding day better was if selfishly, we had done an engagement session with them because we didn’t feel like we had enough time with them on wedding day! These guys had a ton of guests, an awesome timeline, and were covered head to toe in love.

We met Tracey and Jason towards the end of a bridal shower early this year at Eagles Nest. When I saw them I thought they were really cute and could only hope that they would hire us. We started talking and I quickly came to realize that these guys were actually the exact kind of client that we not only loves but we knew if they chose us that this would be a really cool relationship. Tracey and Jason were like us… they had spent a lot of their years praying and believing for God to bring an amazing spouse.