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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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Personal

Social media. Those two words alone can exhaust me most days. I wonder if I would feel differently if I wasn’t a small business owner. As it is between business and personal, I am running so many social media accounts that I actually have an account management system to help me keep track of them all. […]

henry: six months

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Personal

I dreamed about this day, my little Henry pie. Six months. Half a year. There’s nothing particularly magical about it except that back when we were in the trenches, I thought it would never come. Now look at us! We’re all still alive. I wasn’t kidding when I said that now things are getting fun—like […]

how to get your best wedding day hair

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I’m so excited to welcome Kailee of Hair by Kailee to the blog today to talk about wedding hair! (Little known fact: when Kailee was still in cosmetology school, she did MY hair for my wedding day! And I still get compliments on it!) There’s so many different ways to do your wedding day hair: extensions, updos, […]

how your wedding planner impacts your day

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I am so excited to welcome Jenn from Harper Hadley Events to the blog today! I have loved working with and getting to know her over the past few years and, if there’s one thing you should know, she is kind through and through. That real kind. She’s genuine and sincere and organized nearly to […]

Kelly & Walt

A Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

I asked what he most admires about her. “That she’s smarter than me, but never tries to prove it. She has never judged me. She will give you anything she has because things don’t matter to her.” She says his unwavering kindness is a trait that she respects in him. They met at a football […]

reception music (pt 3): order of events

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We’re finishing up our mini series on reception music (read part 1 and part 2) by talking with Travis of Unique Events about the order of events at your reception. Is there a certain order for the reception events that will make it flow more smoothly? There are certainly a number of ways that itineraries […]

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