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EMILY CRALL BLOG

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!

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Rachel & David

A Kent Park Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met at a community group through their church. “He was one of the leaders of the group so I met him right away, but the group was big enough that we really didn’t get to know each other very well that first year.” That following year in October, they had their first official […]

Lindsey & Jeremy

An Iowa River Power Bridge Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met in person at a local ice cream shop in Alaska, where he was living at the time and she was visiting her parents. “After a 3-hour ice cream date, I was hooked,” Lindsey recalls. “During ice cream, I knew there was something special with this guy. I was not looking for something serious, […]

Our Favorite Children’s Podcasts

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Personal

Sometime in the past two years, my kids (now 4 and 7) have become little podcasters, loving the listening aspect of learning. I think it must have started when we took longer day trips to various state parks and wanted non-video entertainment for the trips. They quickly latched on to Mindy and Guy Raz and […]

Monica & Cory

A Voxman Music Hall & St. Burch Tavern Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

Their first date was in mid-2019, but they had met almost a decade before. They reconnected in 2018 because Monica planned several events at Big Grove Brewery, where Cory works, for her job and they quickly became friends. They were meeting for drinks at Reds (ironically, the restaurant where they had first met back in 2010) and “it was […]

Creating Our Family Yearbooks

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Personal

Of all my hobbies, creating our annual family yearbook is my absolute hands-down favorite. I get a ton of questions about them on social media so I’m going to try to break it down here in some simple steps. First of all, some quick answers to the most common questions: How big is it? Before we […]

Brooke & Wyatt

A Voxman Music Hall Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met in the summer of 2016 through a mutual friend. Brooke doesn’t remember exactly how they coordinated their first meeting, but she does remember that they drove around the countryside and small town in Wyatt’s truck, talking and driving for hours and finding out they had a lot in common. “Wyatt has always been […]

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