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Morgan & Hogan

A Fossil Gorge Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

For both of them, it happened quickly, the knowing. “By the second date,” she said. They had talked basically non-stop since their first meeting and shared so much about themselves. “He had been so understanding about my past and we have a lot of similarities and connected so well.” “That walk on our first date,” […]

Lindsey & Jeremy

An Iowa River Power Bridge Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met in person at a local ice cream shop in Alaska, where he was living at the time and she was visiting her parents. “After a 3-hour ice cream date, I was hooked,” Lindsey recalls. “During ice cream, I knew there was something special with this guy. I was not looking for something serious, […]

Monica & Cory

A Voxman Music Hall & St. Burch Tavern Downtown Iowa City Spring Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

Their first date was in mid-2019, but they had met almost a decade before. They reconnected in 2018 because Monica planned several events at Big Grove Brewery, where Cory works, for her job and they quickly became friends. They were meeting for drinks at Reds (ironically, the restaurant where they had first met back in 2010) and “it was […]

Brooke & Wyatt

A Voxman Music Hall Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They met in the summer of 2016 through a mutual friend. Brooke doesn’t remember exactly how they coordinated their first meeting, but she does remember that they drove around the countryside and small town in Wyatt’s truck, talking and driving for hours and finding out they had a lot in common. “Wyatt has always been […]

Erin & Tyler

A Wilson’s Ciderhouse & Venue Snowy Winter Wedding

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Weddings

Erin & Tyler are some of the kindest, sweetest people you’ll ever meet. It has been so much fun getting to know them and work with them throughout their engagement and wedding-planning season of life. Their original wedding date was set for February, but they are both pilates in the U.S. Navy and when they […]

The Coffey Family

A North Liberty Newborn Lifestyle Shoot

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Family & Kids

I photographed their engagement session back when I was pregnant with Henry and their wedding was he was a baby. Getting to know Stephanie & Matthew has been a joy. Over the years, I’ve photographed their family with the addition of their oldest, Silas (here and here) and now, drum roll, I get to help […]

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