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Victoria & Chris

The HarMac Cedar Rapids Summer Wedding

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On an ice stormy night in February over three years ago, they decided to brave the weather and stick with their dinner plans to meet in person for the first time after having begun their conversations online. There were some “poor shoes choices” (on Chris’ part, says Victoria) and an icy tumble, but the dinner […]

The Stoner Family

A Fossil Gorge Summer Family Shoot

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Family & Kids

The last time I saw the Stoner family was when Boyd was little and now he has a little sister who looks just like him. Amanda set up this session to get photos of the cousins together: Elliot, Boyd, and Calloway. We had a perfect morning at the fossil gorge with lots of energy and distractions […]

Tayler & Travis

A Linn County Fairground Summer Wedding

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Back at their winter engagement shoot, with temperatures in the teens (we almost hit 20°F that day!), we knew it would be much warmer at their summer wedding. We weren’t wrong. The heat index this past Saturday hit 110°F leaving us a solid 90° difference between their engagement session and their wedding. These two know […]

Mikaela & Sam

A Hyatt Coralville Summer Wedding

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There is a theory that throughout our lives we will only truly fall in love three times, at three different stages of life, each time serving three very different purposes. This is known as the Three Love Theory. The first love is the one-dimensional love. It is all-consuming; it’s our introduction to the feeling itself, the […]

Iowa City Mural Guide

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Personal

Back in the summer of 2019, when Perrin was still tiny, we started a fun, informal mural hunt in downtown Iowa City. There were several murals at that time, but honestly, there are so many more now! So we put the remaining murals on our summer bucket list and earlier this week, we visited the […]

Yejin & Vivek

A Bella Sala Indian Korean Summer Wedding

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It was the most beautiful weekend at Bella Sala celebrating Yejin and Vivek’s wedding. Do you remember their engagement story? They met last November in Florida, where he lives and she was attending a medical conference. Vivek knew immediately, “on the first date”, that Yejin was the one. He was so certain, in fact, that […]

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