In the last weekend of October, I shot my last wedding of 2014 (at 36 weeks pregnant, I might add). It’s always bittersweet for me to wrap up a year, even as I look ahead and am so excited for all the couples I’m working with next year. My husband and I drove to the […]

We had had to reschedule their engagement session once already due to rain so when it was raining again, we watched for the weather to clear and went ahead as planned. If I could pick any kind of lighting to shoot in, it would be this. Especially for engagement photos. There’s something so special and […]

Some would say they met by chance. It was in February 2012. They were both in graduate school at the University of Iowa. His brother and a friend had come to visit him that weekend and they headed downtown to Bo-James. She was sitting inside with a friend. They began talking and, he says, “we’ve been […]

They met at a high school basketball game when their two schools were playing each other. He was two grades ahead of her–a junior to her freshman–but knew mutual friends as well as her older brother. They both recall noticing the other for both looks and humor (“I remember saying to my [now best man] […]

Both of them list the same moment of knowing they were forever going to be together. In the spring of 2013, they had been together for nearly a year and decided to get their dog, Ellie, together. “I can pinpoint a moment a moment when we were out hiking around Scales Bend on the reservoir and wandered off […]

In a college town, the turnover rate for servers in restaurants is high. So when he started working at the Olive Garden, she–a veteran server–didn’t pay any attention. After he had worked there long enough (several months) to warrant a move out of the “newbie” title, she began to notice him more and more. It […]