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Kerry & Spencer

A Cedar Rapids Country Club Tennis Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met in early 2022 at a bar on the University of Chicago’s campus called The Pub. “We talked with a mutual friend about playing tennis and then I told Spencer we should play and gave him my number,” Kerry said. A few days after that meeting, they met up again in Hyde Park to […]

Brynne & Cory

A Hickory Hill Summer Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met at her first job out of college, sitting in a cubicle shared by four people. “Brynne started before I did,” Cory said. “At one point during training, we were taken to our desks, and mine happened to be in a cubicle shared with a very cute girl. I noticed her hair first, and […]

Amanda & Magnus

A Hickory Hill & Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met online because she was bored and downloaded the dating app as a joke. She had set the radius to 100 miles and that’s exactly how far apart their addresses were. “I was alone in my dorm room when I saw someone had liked my profile. I looked through his pictures and saw one […]

Amy & Eric

A Bella Sala Spring Wedding

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Weddings

I’ll always laugh at how Eric tried to convince his daughter that he met Amy in church choir. (She didn’t believe him.) In reality, they met online in early 2021. (Eric said he knew she was the one after Amy and his daughter, Mia, had met. “Amy is wonderful with kids and her and Mia […]

Maddie & Evelyn

A Fossil Gorge Spring Mother-Daughter Shoot

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Family & Kids

To celebrate Mother’s Day, we did a special mother-daughter photoshoot with Maddie and Evie. The last time I saw them was at a family session I did last September and look at how much Evie’s curls have grown since then!! When she was first born, she didn’t have curls yet, but she’s always kept that […]

Megan & Nate

A Hyatt Regency Coralville Spring Wedding

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They met through a very chance phone call. Megan was with her friend, Amber, who was on the phone and needed to stop and tie her shoe laces. (“She’s clumsy and she knows it.”) Amber pushed her phone to Megan who chatted briefly with Nate, who was on the other end of the line. “Nate […]

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