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EMILY CRALL BLOG

I'm Emily and I'm so happy you're here! This blog is a journal about my life and my latest work. Stay a while and say hello!

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wedding photographs in review: 2012

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Weddings

Without a doubt, 2012 brought some of my favorites weddings…and some of my favorite people. As an artist, I have to enter each wedding day with a fresh perspective. While it may be another wedding weekend on the books for me, it’s the most important day for two people and I cannot–will not–take that lightly. […]

first snow

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Personal

The 50-mile-an-hour winds and 0 mile visibility of snow yesterday, otherwise termed the “snowpocalypse”, didn’t quite leave the 10 inches we were expecting.

julianna + brandon // keota, iowa wedding photography

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Personal

It happened around Thanksgiving. They had been renovating their new generational home (it was her grandparents’ home) and had recently moved in when Brandon proposed to Julianna. They had been together for 10 years so it was really no surprise, but it had the culmination of all things meaningful to them: being together and having the […]

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 […]

Mallory & Corey

An Iowa City Sheraton Winter Wedding

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Weddings

Rains earlier in the week had blown leaves to the ground and they crunched underfoot with the familiar sounds of fall. The day dawned beautiful; crisp but not uncomfortable. Their families were at the church early, still in comfortable clothing, putting last minute touches on the decor and relaxing in the couches the church lounge. […]

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 […]

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