I'm Emily and I'm so happy you're here! This blog is a journal about my life and my latest work. Stay a while and say hello!

They’ve come a long way from their first time meeting in college. And with that journey has come love, commitment, and contentment just being with each other. Linea and Nick are the kind of people who, when they love, they love with all they have. You can see it not just from their interactions with […]

New Year’s always brings with it resolutions. And, honestly, I’m kind of tired of resolutions. It’s too much pressure. Too many check-lists in an already full schedule of to-dos. So this year, I opted out completely. Or, well, I was going to opt out, but I was coerced into making a fitness goal for this year. So, pending […]

Without a doubt, 2012 brought some of my favorites weddings…and some of my favorite people. As an artist, I have to enter each wedding day with a fresh perspective. While it may be another wedding weekend on the books for me, it’s the most important day for two people and I cannot–will not–take that lightly. […]

For the past several years, I have made a top effort to capture our own personal memories and catalog our lives; not just for us, but for our someday-children and grandchildren. It’s important to me to preserve the normal moments in life, not just the vacations or the funny stories, but the normal things that […]

It happened around Thanksgiving. They had been renovating their new generational home (it was her grandparents’ home) and had recently moved in when Brandon proposed to Julianna. They had been together for 10 years so it was really no surprise, but it had the culmination of all things meaningful to them: being together and having the […]