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Sara & Ryan

A Knapp Creek Event Center Fall Wedding

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They met six years ago at a Brooks & Dunn concert at the Mississippi Valley Fair. She was there with a group of her friends and he was there with a group of his. Both groups merged during the concert and Ryan asked Sara if she wanted to get on his shoulders to “see better.” […]

Randi & Eric

A Cedar Ridge Winery Summer Wedding

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No one ever thought that an August wedding in Iowa would be breezy and in the 70s, but Randi and Eric had the most beautiful, perfect wedding day at Cedar Ridge Winery. Their celebration was a long time coming as they’ve spent half of their lives together. They met in middle school, but it wasn’t […]

Tabbi & Matt

A Downtown Iowa City Summer Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

Their first date was about a week after they met online. He asked if he could take her to dinner in Iowa City (about 45 minutes from where she lived at the time). “I happily accepted and told him I would meet him at the truck stop that was right by the highway he would […]

Paige & Mark

The Gathering Barn Summer Wedding

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A wedding in the middle of July in the Midwest is a wild guess as to hot and humid it will be, but the best guess is really hot and really humid. The days leading up to Saturday were filled with humidity and thunderstorms, but Saturday dawned with skies perfectly matching their wedding colors, a […]

Maggie & Jordan

A Rolling Meadows Event Center Spring Wedding

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Their engagement session last October had been on a cold, overcast day and we really went 180° with the weather because it was very sunny and breezy and in the spring-hot range of mid-80s. (I can’t say truly hot because we know that those 100° days are coming…) There wasn’t a cloud in the sky […]

Amy & Jace

A Hotel Millwright New Year’s Eve Winter Wedding in Amana

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It was the perfect way to end the year–literally–with Amy and Jace! When we did their engagement shoot last winter, a year away seemed like so long! But it snuck right up and Amy and I were messaging back and forth about how excited we were to see each other again and, obviously, for the […]

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