My darling boy, Your laughter is beautiful and your smiles come so easy. You continue to be a really happy little boy. Unless you are in a new environment in which case you cry a sobbing, terrified wail. That’s been a new development this past month, the scared thing. It started the week before Easter […]

“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 […]

elcome to another installment of Wedding Tips Wednesday! (You can see last week’s post about every bride’s survival kit here.) This week we’re diving into wedding makeup! I really love makeup and it’s not just because I was a licensed esthetician at one point in my life. I think makeup is so fun. But more […]

It was during their Junior year of college at Augustana when they first met. They casually dated that year, she says, but went their separate ways at the end of the year. It didn’t take long, however, before she realized how much she missed him and just wanted to be with him. They began dating […]

In my years of experience photographing weddings, I’ve started to notice a pattern in the urgent, “Hey, does anyone have a _____?” This wedding day survival kit list is by no means comprehensive, but does include some of the items that are most requested on wedding days. These are all small items and will easily fit into […]

Long before I became a wedding photographer, I loved decor and styling. I have always loved art, but even more (and maybe the older I get?), I love personal art. Personal art means something to me. So when it came time to decorate our first condo and then later our home, I wanted to invest in […]