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Hyunbi & Chris

A Downtown Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met online in 2021 and, shortly after, met in person for coffee. “After the 4 hours of chatting, we scheduled our next date for the coming Wednesday. We were both undergrad students, so we met between classes for lunch,” Hyunbi said. Chris added, “Talking with Hyunbi felt so effortless and it was obvious to […]

Mollie & Dylan

A Countryside Summer Engagement Shoot

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Growing up in small towns, their parents went to school together so their families have long history, but Mollie and Dylan didn’t meet until high school, when their separate elementary and middle schools flowed into one. They were both a little nervous for their first date (“and also excited,” said Mollie), but their nerves were […]

Megan & Paul

A Voxman Music Hall Summer Engagement Shoot

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They first met online and shortly after, met in person for pizza. “We were both clearly pretty nervous,” Megan said. “But we had some pizza and great conversation, then we walked around Iowa State’s campus.” They were living in Ames at the time and began regularly going on walks through the cross country course. They […]

Kerry & Spencer

A Cedar Rapids Country Club Tennis Engagement Shoot

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They met in early 2022 at a bar on the University of Chicago’s campus called The Pub. “We talked with a mutual friend about playing tennis and then I told Spencer we should play and gave him my number,” Kerry said. A few days after that meeting, they met up again in Hyde Park to […]

Brynne & Cory

A Hickory Hill Summer Engagement Shoot

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They met at her first job out of college, sitting in a cubicle shared by four people. “Brynne started before I did,” Cory said. “At one point during training, we were taken to our desks, and mine happened to be in a cubicle shared with a very cute girl. I noticed her hair first, and […]

Amanda & Magnus

A Hickory Hill & Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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They met online because she was bored and downloaded the dating app as a joke. She had set the radius to 100 miles and that’s exactly how far apart their addresses were. “I was alone in my dorm room when I saw someone had liked my profile. I looked through his pictures and saw one […]

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