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Beth & Jim

A Celebration Farm Iowa City Fall Wedding

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Weddings

Beth & Jim’s Celebration Farm wedding day was a perfect celebration of their many years together and their perseverance through long-distance and college then grad & med school. They are both brilliant people and yet they have such genuine hearts and a quirky sense of humor that makes them both adorable and also incredibly lovable. Beth […]

Henry : Ten Months

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Personal

Sweet Henry, I remember as a child having a fascination with time. It confounded me how it moved slowly and quickly at various times or even occasionally at the same time. (How could it simultaneously move fast and slow?!) I learned that, rationally speaking, the secondhand moves the same speed. Over and over and over. […]

Sarah & Ian

An Iowa City Sheraton Summer Wedding

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Weddings

Planning an outdoor wedding in any area of the country involves two things: 1) a backup plan and 2) a flexible spirit. While we encountered no rain on their wedding day, we did have a brutal heat wave sweep through that brought temps in the upper 90s with “but it feels like 103” cautions from […]

Stephanie & Kurt

A St. Paul Catholic Fall Wedding

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Weddings

We arrived the morning of the wedding to her family’s farm. The ladies were inside, getting makeup done, hair pinned up in curled up-dos, and the wedding gown hanging on the doorframe in the living room. Stephanie was both excited and calm. Stephanie and Kurt have known each other since elementary school. They started dating in […]

Bridget & Jason

A Washington Iowa Fall Farm Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They were young when they met. Babies actually. Bridget says it all started in 2009 at the Washington County Fair. “I was with my best friend at the time and she and Jason were in the same 4-H club. I said to her, ‘That boy looks so familiar. What’s his name?’ Of course [when she […]

Mompreneurship, part 6: Office Management System (Pixifi)

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Business

Previously on mompreneurship: PART 1: OUTSOURCING PART 2: POST-PRODUCTION PART 3: EMAIL FOLDER ORGANIZATION PART 4: MONTHLY TASK LIST PART 5: CLIENT GIFTS This post has been lingering for a long time. It’s so hard to break it down to figure out where to start. I’m gonna try my best and hope this is inspires you […]

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