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 […]

Laura & Matt got married in the midst of the pandemic and, while we all live with leftover trauma from those years, they not only planned their wedding (and had to rearrange several times!) and got married, but then just days before Laura gave birth to their oldest, Matt was diagnosed with COVID-19, which meant […]

I had been looking forward to this [almost] New Year’s Eve wedding ever since Mollie & Dylan first reached out, in part because I had photographed Mollie’s cousin’s wedding last New Year’s Eve and it felt very kismet to reunite with that whole extended family again for another holiday wedding! Then I got to know […]

Planning a wedding in three months time is no small feat, and doing that while living in India, a 12-hour difference in timezones, is especially challenging! Mary’s parents picked up the bulk of the local planning in Iowa with Mary flying back once from India to pack in a bunch of planning, including buying a […]

I first met Mary several years ago when I photographed her sister Eva’s wedding. In the time since, Mary moved to India, where she directs a Hindi-Urdu language learning center in Delhi. Her business co-owner was the one who first mentioned Michael to her. Michael grew up on a game farm (“basically a house in […]

They met at a mutual friend’s house during an Iowa v. Iowa State football game. “Jace swears I ignored him, but he was really just too nervous to talk to me,” said Amy. Their first official date was a few months later to a hockey game where Jace “thought I had made her angry or […]