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Emily & Derek

A Snowy Winter Wonderland Wedding at DoubleTree, Cedar Rapids

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Weddings

Leading up to the day, the chances of Emily’s dream winter wonderland wedding were looking good. She was hoping for “nice weather with a light quiet snowfall right at 5:05pm.” The chances of snow were 60%, but the closer the wedding day got, the colder the temperatures crept. Saturday arrived with bitter winds, a barely […]

Emily & Derek

A Kent Park Iowa Winter Engagement Shoot

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Photography

He was DJing; she requested a song. “I got pretty busy and hadn’t gotten to her song yet (something by Bloodhound Gang). I had a pretty packed dance floor and didn’t want to kill the mood that her career-ending request,” he said. She continued, “After what I thought was more than enough time to hear […]

Stephanie & Sam

A Kent Park Iowa Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

After talking online for a month, they decided to meet in person. They picked a halfway point between them, which ended up being in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and met over Easter weekend. “We had talked about meeting [later], but instead, I spontaneously asked her to meet me halfway for the weekend. We watched movies, ate great […]

Rachel & Carson

An Iowa River Landing Wetland Park Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

They first met at her cousin’s wedding. During the reception, he says he got the courage to ask her to dance. She adds, “I didn’t notice him until that night when he asked me to dance and I couldn’t keep my eyes off of him.” It was not long after that he knew she was […]

snow adventures

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Personal

I can’t tell you the temperature, but my toes felt numb for about 4 hours after we got home. (Although, that might also be because I was wearing non-waterproofed boots and only one pair of socks. Rookie.) We got out of the house for a bit, both armed with cameras and explored a bit of […]

first snow

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The 50-mile-an-hour winds and 0 mile visibility of snow yesterday, otherwise termed the “snowpocalypse”, didn’t quite leave the 10 inches we were expecting.

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