efore we bought our house, we lived in a condo. It was a 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo, a lovely start to our life together. But, the longer we lived there and the more my business grew, we quickly outgrew the place. The 2nd bedroom had a guest bed, an overstuffed chair (that couldn’t fit in the […]

Recently I was asked how I come up with wedding day timelines. “Do you have an example of one of your timelines or schedule for the wedding day? How you organize your thoughts, etc. I know this is probably different for each wedding, but if you have an example saved, I would greatly appreciate it!” […]

They weren’t strangers when they saw each other one afternoon after a Hawkeye football game. They knew each other from high school, but had never hung out. But when they saw each other after the game, now in their college years, they started talking and they just never stopped. He says he was drawn to […]

It was senior year of high school and she was the new girl. She was different than the other girls he knew. And he would know since he was the school flirt. She never took his remarks, smiles, or winks seriously because he was like that with everyone. For some reason, they always got paired […]

 was invited to a party last night and figured it would be a great time to try making these mini pumpkin pies. I saw the original recipe here and decided to modify it because a) I didn’t have a mini muffin tin and b) I didn’t want to make jack-o-lanterns. And, by the way, these are […]

Recently I had a friend ask the following: “This may seem like a stupid question, but how do you go about doing detail prep shots wherever? Like I just saw some gorgeous shots from [your] blog post with the wedding dress outside, and I’ve been wanting to do that! Does the bride freak?? And how does that […]