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 […]

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 […]

y sweet Henry, When you were first born, I saw you next to a four month old baby and I thought to myself that four months seemed so old. It felt eons away from where we were at the time, both in development and in actual time. Now look at you: you’re four months old. I […]

She turned him down on his first three requests for a date. She wanted to make sure he was truly interested. He was definitely interested and didn’t give up. Their first date was really laid back–like them–and they ended up spending hours outside on the deck talking. “We wanted to put everything out on the table […]

Oh, my sweet boy. There’s a saying that time flies, that it goes by in the blink of an eye. And, while that’s kind of true, the other week I said to your daddy, “Can you believe it’s only been 11 weeks since he was born? I mean, only 11 weeks ago.” Because it seems like you’ve […]