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Dana & Danny

A Kent Park Spring Engagement Shoot

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Dana and Danny met in Chihuahua, Mexico in 2016 while they were both on an optometry medical mission. “During that trip, we didn’t have many interactions as he was working mostly with third and fourth your students at the slit lamps (the devices we use to assess the front and back surface of the eye),” […]

Mary & Michael

A Downtown Iowa City Winter Engagement

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I first met Mary several years ago when I photographed her sister Eva’s wedding. In the time since, Mary moved to India, where she directs a Hindi-Urdu language learning center in Delhi. Her business co-owner was the one who first mentioned Michael to her. Michael grew up on a game farm (“basically a house in […]

Amy & Jace

A Downtown Iowa City Winter Engagement Shoot

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They met at a mutual friend’s house during an Iowa v. Iowa State football game. “Jace swears I ignored him, but he was really just too nervous to talk to me,” said Amy. Their first official date was a few months later to a hockey game where Jace “thought I had made her angry or […]

Monica & Dustin

A Kent Park Fall Engagement Shoot

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They first met in high school “though I can’t say specifically when we would have met for the first time,” Dustin says. Monica was a grade above him and they had study hall together. “Throughout those study halls, I do remember liking her for quite a while before we ever actually got to know each […]

Lauren & Matthew

A Downtown Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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They met online in their third year of college and it didn’t take long for them to become a couple. When they had been together around 6 months, Lauren knew he was the one she would marry. “We went to Oktoberfest in Lacrosse, Wisconsin with his family. It was the first time I was meeting […]

Maddie & Justin

A Hickory Hill Fall Engagement Shoot

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They met ten years ago, in English Comp II. “I think we were aware of each other because it was a smaller class,” Maddie says. “But it wasn’t until we went to computer lab to write a paper that we actually sat next to each other. Justin will tell you that I sat next to […]

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