Ever since my kids were young, but especially now that they are school age, summertime has been a time for all the day trip adventures. Since I’m a wedding photographer, summers are typically very busy so short little bursts of adventures are the perfect way to make memories and have fun without committing a lot […]

Planning a wedding in three months time is no small feat, and doing that while living in India, a 12-hour difference in timezones, is especially challenging! Mary’s parents picked up the bulk of the local planning in Iowa with Mary flying back once from India to pack in a bunch of planning, including buying a […]

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 […]

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 […]

It was an overcast, but otherwise lovely day for Maddison and Aaron’s December wedding at Bella Sala. The temperatures weren’t bitterly cold like they had been leading up to the wedding and the lack of a breeze helped! I have been so excited for this wedding ever since I first heard from Maddison over a […]

The Walsh family is are not new around here and they somehow get cuter every time I see them. I first met them when Evie was brand new and it’s wild to me how quickly she has grown up! I photographed them again when she turned 1 and then, earlier this year, I did a […]