Back at their engagement session, Ryan had said the thing he was most looking forward to about their wedding day was, “finally being able to call Jennie my wife and making her so happy.” Now they are finally husband and wife and I was so honored to be there to witness their marriage and document their […]

Dana and Danny met in Chihuahua, Mexico in 2016 while they were both on an optometry medical mission. “During that trip, we didn’t have many interactions as he was working mostly with third and fourth your students at the slit lamps (the devices we use to assess the front and back surface of the eye),” […]

Ever since my kids were young, but especially now that they are school age, summertime has been a time for all the day trip adventures. Since I’m a wedding photographer, summers are typically very busy so short little bursts of adventures are the perfect way to make memories and have fun without committing a lot […]

I had been looking forward to this [almost] New Year’s Eve wedding ever since Mollie & Dylan first reached out, in part because I had photographed Mollie’s cousin’s wedding last New Year’s Eve and it felt very kismet to reunite with that whole extended family again for another holiday wedding! Then I got to know […]

Planning a wedding in three months time is no small feat, and doing that while living in India, a 12-hour difference in timezones, is especially challenging! Mary’s parents picked up the bulk of the local planning in Iowa with Mary flying back once from India to pack in a bunch of planning, including buying a […]

“I’m so grateful to books, and I’m so grateful to have grown up in a family where my love of reading was not only accepted but fostered. Reading fosters such curiosity, such thirst for knowledge outside of one’s own life. Through fiction we discover entire worlds. Entire dreams.   “These days, especially, as we desperately seek […]