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Megan & Trent

A Downtown Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They made their debut Friday. If you missed it, catch up on their love story here. It’s pretty great. I asked Megan when she knew Trent was the one. She said, “I knew I was going to be with this guy for quite a long time just after our first date. I had a few […]

Megan & Trent

An Iowa City Park Fall Engagement Shoot, Part 1

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Engaged

Their first date was on June 14, 2010. Their friends had been trying to set them up for quite a while and she says she was a tomboy, class clown, and risk-taker in high school and no boy was going to slow her down. She got asked on dates and never showed any interest. She says, […]

Emily & Owen

A Kent Park Iowa Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

It was this past spring when they went shopping for an engagement ring. But as summer rolled around, she still had an empty ring finger. Then came fall and she began to get impatient. He had planned several separate attempts for a proposal, all foiled by her, unusual work schedules, or innocent friends. Finally, in […]

Carrie & Nick

A Fossil Gorge Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

She was new to the area; he was a hometown boy. They shared a few high school classes and she quickly realized that those were the classes she looked most forward to, not because of the class, but the company. Fast forward years later and she had a running joke with him that when he […]

Linea & Nick

A Downtown Iowa City Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

“He’s really cute,” she said to her roommate, “But I don’t think he talks.” They were all hanging out while in school at the University of Iowa and he happened to be her roommate’s boyfriend’s roommate so they ended up in the same group. It would be impossible not to notice her and it didn’t […]

Julie & Mike

A Greenwood Park Rose Gardens Des Moines Fall Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

It was the Saturday after Valentine’s Day, February 18th. The colored lights spilled over, under, and around the beautiful archway of the Center Street Bridge in downtown Des Moines as they strolled hand-in-hand, breathing in the brisk night air. In the very center of the bridge over the glass floor that looks directly down into […]

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