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Jaclyn & Jake

A Cornell College Summer Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

As a freshman in high school, she remembers having a crush on him. He was a senior and she was sure he’d never notice her, but you remember how high school was. Fast forward several years and they are states apart, but both on Facebook one late night. (Facebook: creating marriages since 2010.) The next time […]

Beth & Jim

A Celebration Farm Iowa City Fall Wedding

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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 […]

Bridget & Jason

A Washington Iowa Fall Farm Engagement Shoot

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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 […]

Ellen & Jason

A Terry Trueblood Park Summer Engagement Shoot

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They first met over breakfast at the Blue Plate Cafe in Memphis, Tennessee. She was living in Mississippi at the time; he in Memphis. They have now ended up in Iowa City as she is finishing up her PhD dissertation at Iowa. When I asked her how she knew he was “the one”, she responded, […]

Bonnie & Sam

A Minnesota Fall Wedding | Destination Wedding Photographer

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In the last weekend of October, I shot my last wedding of 2014 (at 36 weeks pregnant, I might add). It’s always bittersweet for me to wrap up a year, even as I look ahead and am so excited for all the couples I’m working with next year. My husband and I drove to the […]

Anna & Cody

A Des Moines HyVee Conference Center Fall Wedding

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hen asked what she was most looking forward to about her wedding day, she said being with everyone she loves in one place. He seconded that saying, “Seeing family and friends that I don’t see very often, most of whom I see less than once a year.” Their families and friends showed up and the […]

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