This past weekend, we attended a wedding as guests. Wedding photographers, you get it. That makes 2 weddings that I have been to in the last 4 years not as the wedding photographer. It. Felt. Strange.  Kevin and I hosted Father’s Day at our new house yesterday. Turns out I like hosting! It’s hard work, […]

 have an album on my Facebook page of behind the scenes photos. I’ve gotten so many questions about what I wear to weddings (and the heels! oh, the questions about heels!) and where I get my dresses that I’ve decided to start a short series on what I wear for wedding days. First of all, […]

She was a new hire at 3M, fresh from Iowa State with her engineering degree. He was already on staff. It would be hard not to spot her, her beautiful skin and soft smile, her sense of humor and her laugh. Multiple drives on work-related trips to their manufacturing facility in Nevada, Missouri brought them […]

I was so nervous this morning when I put all of the contestants names from the veil giveaway into the random contest winner picker. To make all matters more intense, as it was going skimming the names, it played some kind of circus countdown music and my heart was actually racing. The winner?

I can’t remember the first moment we met or how we hit it off. I know it was back in the days of junior high church summer camp. She was from Nebraska. I was from Iowa. It was when kids didn’t have cell phones and before Facebook was invented. Gosh, it may have even been […]

I truly feel like one of the moments when you really feel like a bride is after you’ve slipped on your dress, your shoes are strapped, and–finally–your veil is tucked into your hair. Nothing feels more bridal than a veil. That’s why I was so excited to be contacted by Simply Bridal about doing a […]