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Jamey & Griffin

An Oakdale Campus Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met during the summer at Texas Roadhouse (home of the best rolls & butter ever!). “She trained me, which is probably not something she’ll want to take credit for considering I was easily the worst server of all time,” Griffin said. “After falling out of touch for many years, we reconnected via Facebook with her […]

Emily & Mitchell

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

It was the summer of 2010. They were both camp counselors at an overnight youth camp. “I had gotten there a day early and was sitting in the camp office when I first saw him,” she said. They started dating July 11th. “I consider the day before we started dating as our first real date, […]

Ashlie & Kyle

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met at a wedding. Technically, they met twice, she says. “The first time was the night before the wedding. We were at hotel watching the World Series. We talked briefly, but we shared the same distaste for Phillip Rivers so I figured he couldn’t be that bad.” The night of the wedding, she pointed […]

Erin & Julian

A Quad Cities Botanical Garden Intimate Spring Wedding

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Weddings

“I was on a bus in Florence. I was living there for a semester abroad, studying studio art and art history and language and being in my hands-down favorite city ever, getting a taste of everything life on my own could be at its very finest, and I was sitting on the bus realizing that […]

Sarah & Nathan

An Amana Colonies Iowa Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

  She was nervous on their first date and admits to drinking a little too much as a result. She says she talked too much and he says with a smile that he wasn’t 100% sold that night. Yet, the nervous energy of their first date and their 2-hour living distance didn’t stop them from forging ahead. He cares […]

Bethany & Zach

A Downtown Iowa City Summer Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

There isn’t one moment where I just knew Zach was the one,” she says. “It was a process for me. A process of little moments that just kept telling me that I didn’t want to ever lose him.” They met in college and when he saw her, he instantly looked at his buddy and told […]

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