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Emily & Trevor

A Palisades Cedar Rapids Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met at a high school basketball game when their two schools were playing each other. He was two grades ahead of her–a junior to her freshman–but knew mutual friends as well as her older brother. They both recall noticing the other for both looks and humor (“I remember saying to my [now best man] […]

Tiffany & Jonah

The Hotel at Kirkwood Center Fall Wedding

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Both of them knew very early into their relationship that this was their forever. When he asked her to be his wife, neither of them were hesitant to take this next, momentous move. Tiffany & Jonah became husband and wife earlier this month, on a beautiful Friday afternoon surrounded by an intimate group of their […]

Stephanie & Matt

A Sugar Bottom Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

Both of them list the same moment of knowing they were forever going to be together. In the spring of 2013, they had been together for nearly a year and decided to get their dog, Ellie, together. “I can pinpoint a moment a moment when we were out hiking around Scales Bend on the reservoir and wandered off […]

Beth & Jim

A Downtown Iowa City Summer Engagement Shoot

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In a college town, the turnover rate for servers in restaurants is high. So when he started working at the Olive Garden, she–a veteran server–didn’t pay any attention. After he had worked there long enough (several months) to warrant a move out of the “newbie” title, she began to notice him more and more. It […]

Paige & Christopher

A Bella Sala Fall Wedding

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They’ve been together for years. But not just in normal years. They met back in their school days. They’ve been married almost 4 years and have made it through 3 deployments. Theirs is a relationship bonded and secured through closeness and distance, through happiness and pain. It was such an honor to celebrate their “big wedding” […]

Gretchen & Mike

The Rendezvous Muscatine Fall Wedding

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Gretchen & I follow each other on Instagram, a.k.a. the better-than-Facebook. So I knew, leading up to the wedding, the time and energy that her, Mike, and their families and friends put into making it all perfect. I mean, months and months ago, she was making adorable hair pins for her bridesmaids! During the reception, […]

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