When Christa from Bread Garden Events reached out to me a month ago to see if I’d be interested in doing a styled shoot, I was immediately all in! Her vision for the updated event space was to showcase the amazing light that ballroom gets as well as the fabulous roof terrace. I’ve photographed weddings […]

They met during the pandemic; online first, but then one night, she decided to go into the bar where he works and ended up sitting with him all night. “Bars had just reopened, but no one was in Iowa City so they were pretty slow. I came into Sports Column one night with my good […]

To say I was excited for this wedding is an understatement. Joelle and Jeffrey are truly some of the kindest people I’ve ever most. I had first met Joelle’s sister, Jane, when she was in a wedding I photographed several years ago (hi, Mallory & Alex!) and I was so honored when Joelle reached out […]

In the year of 2022, I am now meeting so many “pandemic couples.” Couples who met (usually online) when the world shut down back in 2020. Anna & Gabriel join the ranks of so many other pandemic-and-beyond relationships. Their first date was on Zoom (“It was a good way of first getting to see if […]

They met through a chance phone call thanks to a mutual friend who needed to stop and tie her shoe. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? “I was in Milwaukee with a friend attending Summerfest,” Nate said. “We had gotten back to the hotel after the last show of the night and my friend, Amber, called me. […]

A year ago, Ben proposed to Miranda while out hiking and I got to photograph the whole thing. “It was the best day of my life,” Ben said. “I woke up that morning really nervous. I’d envisioned asking her to marry me for years. I’d mentioned to her throughout the week that we should go […]