Six years ago, I photographed their daughter’s wedding (oh man, it was so beautiful!) and then last year, I photographed her and her husband’s fifth anniversary photos. Kristal booked this session this year and then asked if it would be possible to gift it to her parents instead. Monica and Mike celebrated their 45th wedding […]

I cannot believe it’s been almost 5 years since their gorgeous wedding at Glen Oaks! Their sunset photos that day had to be some of the best and that was due, in part to the location and in part to the perfection of Iowa fall colors. I’ll always remember their wedding day with a smile […]

One year ago, these two were married under a beautiful canopy of trees in a Disney-inspired wedding at Rapid Creek Cidery. I still get swoony when I look back at that day. The florals that draped over practically everything (including floral crowns for all the bridesmaids!), that masterpiece of a cake that was the statement […]

One year ago, we celebrated their wedding on a beautiful, summery Friday afternoon. As they approached their first anniversary, Kristin reached out to me to see about doing an anniversary shoot and it worked out so perfectly in our schedules that we ended up being able to do it on their actual anniversary. I cannot […]

n our six years of marriage, this past year has brought about the biggest change. (He goes by Henry.) We found out I was pregnant last year, just a few days before our fifth wedding anniversary. Your surprise trip to Chicago ended up with a lot of vomiting and a lot of napping in the […]

ime is this funny thing. You know that every second is the same length as the second before it and after it. The same with minutes, hours, days, months, and years. But time is tricky in this way: it seems like it goes both fast and slow, but never exactly the same. It’s been five […]