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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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kayaking adventures

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his upcoming weekend will be a busy one–two weddings back to back–so on Monday afternoon, we carved out a little time to relax. We went to the new Terry Trueblood Recreation Area and rented kayaks. It’s been a long time since I’ve kayaked (I kind of forget how much you sit in the water!) and Kevin […]

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“It doesn’t seem like it has been 4 years already,” I told you a few evenings ago.You agreed and added that it’s been a really good four years. We recently added another milestone to our marriage–buying our first home. Through the water damage, the cleanup, the repair, the week without appliances, the sub-flooring, and the […]

Linea & Nick

An Iowa City Winter Wedding

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They’ve come a long way from their first time meeting in college. And with that journey has come love, commitment, and contentment just being with each other. Linea and Nick are the kind of people who, when they love, they love with all they have. You can see it not just from their interactions with […]

julianna + brandon // keota, iowa wedding photography

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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 […]

my second shooter

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The night before working our first wedding together, I was in tears. Big, fat tears. At that time, we had been married three and a half year and had figured out how to work well together in other aspects. But photography was my baby. And I couldn’t figure out how to give up any control […]

Allison & Kyle

A Kalona Iowa Summer Wedding

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“In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.” (Anne Sophie Swetchine)

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