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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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The Best Personalized Guest Book

The Engagement Signing Album

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Photography

Wedding albums are something I believe really strongly about. If you doubt me at all, take a look at this entire blog post I dedicated to them. I think they are absolutely worth the investment to have your wedding day told in a professionally laid out storyboard of images–your images. It is one of the greatest tangible […]

The Penick Family

A Fossil Gorge Winter Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

This beautiful family is just weeks away from becoming a family of 4 and I was so glad to get to see them again this past weekend and to celebrate this time in their lives! I have been lucky enough to know Cortney and Christian for years now, all the way back to their engagement […]

Melissa & Phil

A Kent Park Iowa Snowy Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met last summer when Phil’s sister invited Melissa to join their family for a day of golfing and by the time they went on their first date, they knew it would be forever for their relationship. “I think I knew he was the one when he asked me to be his girlfriend. We went […]

4 Steps for Promoting Fellow Vendors

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Tips

I recently chatted with some fellow wedding vendors and discovered, to my complete horror, that they estimated receiving photos from photographers at just 10% of their weddings. Ten percent. In many ways, photographers really do hold the keys for weddings. We bear an enormous load of responsibility not just to our clients, but to our […]

A Tour of Our Home

Perrin’s Big Girl Room

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Personal

Late this past fall, we got rid of Perrin’s crib and upgraded her room to big girl status. (She’s very proud.) While we certainly weren’t in a rush to do this, we also suddenly realized that the furniture we needed was going to be really delayed because of shipping issues so, in the end, we […]

Perrin: Three Years

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Personal

Happy birthday, my darling.  You are three years old and overflowing with personality. You sing all the time; whatever it on your mind, you’ll sing it. You wake up every morning saying that Suzettey, your stuffy, wants a picnic. (You also speak in a high-pitched, squeaky voice when voicing her.) You love twirly dresses and […]

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