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Natalie & Greg

An Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

Neither of them can remember first meeting and this is a sweet result of growing up in the same school. They have just always known each other. Their first date was basically accidental. Greg was at his parent’s house and sent out a Snapchat inviting some people over to go four wheeling, not thinking anyone […]

Bryn & Jonathon

A Downtown Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

It was just a few weeks after they first met that they went on their first date. “It was beautiful, sunny day,” Bryn said. “It was one of those spring days that felt like the beginning of summer. We had been trying to find a time to meet at night, but me schedule was crazy […]

The Seward Family

A Kalona Fall Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

I actually do not know how Kailee and I first met, but I do know that somewhere along the way, I hired her to do my hair for my wedding ten plus years ago when she was still in cosmetology school and we’ve been friends ever since. (And I still to this day wouldn’t change […]

Shannon & Ted

A Disney-Inspired Fairytale Wedding at Rapid Creek Cidery

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Weddings

All weddings have themes of some kind, a core design or color palette that decisions are bounced off of to see what sticks and what doesn’t quite go. So when two people who love all things Disney, even getting engaged at Disney World and taking a Disney honeymoon cruise in a few weeks, start to […]

Emma & Brandan

A Fossil Gorge Iowa City Summer Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

These high school sweethearts met all the way back in their sophomore and junior years. She was a grade ahead of him, but was a transfer student, having just moved to the area. She describes herself as being “the shy new girl” and was introduced to Brandan in the hallway on the way to class […]

Maria & Austin

A Downtown Iowa City Summer Wedding

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Weddings

They met in Iowa City during medical/dental school–she’s now a surgeon and he’s a dentist–and they have family close to the area so even though they now reside in Texas, where Maria is doing her surgery residency, it made sense for them to come back to the place where it all started for them, right […]

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