Lauren and Jared just look so comfortable in front of the camera. I couldn’t stop telling them at the session, I was honestly convinced they do this all the time. But it’s not the camera they’re comfortable with, it’s each other. They know how to make each other laugh, they naturally reach for each other […]

I feel like I blinked and the these girls grew up. I’ve had the Holt family in front of my camera a few times now. Years ago we did family portraits at this exact same spot, and coming back again felt a little crazy. Not because the location had changed, because it truly hadn’t. It […]

I asked Parker if he had ever ridden a horse before and his answer was yes, but that he didn’t really love it. Which made me laugh because we were standing in Morgan’s family’s backyard, taking pictures with her horses, and he couldn’t have looked more happy to be there. I think that is such […]

Getting engaged has always been exciting because of what it means. It means you get to start preparing for a marriage. It means you get to dive head first into planning a wedding and a life together. Getting these two back in front of my camera less than a month after their surprise proposal and […]

I truly believe that the sweetest part about a proposal isn’t the setup. When you think back on the moment, I don’t think the first thing that comes to mind will be exactly what he said to you. The stories you’ll tell for the next 50 years will be about how he thought about it […]

There are moments on a wedding day that you know you will remember forever, in real time, as they’re happening. For James, I think one of those moments happened in the middle of the ceremony. He told Melissa afterward that he wanted to remember the way she looked at him forever. She was standing there […]

Some couples spend their engagement planning a wedding. Lydia and Zavier are spending theirs preparing for a marriage. There is something incredibly refreshing about people who aren’t in a hurry. Not because they don’t have exciting things ahead of them. They do. In fact, by the time you read this, Lydia and Zavier will probably […]

The season of engagement is such a whirlwind. It’s one of the only seasons in life when you can actually feel its impact while you’re living it. Before it, everything in your future is just a vision. Something you imagine when you’re bored in class or lying awake before you fall asleep. When you’re engaged, […]

I was surrounded by all the details of Heather & Sam’s wedding day, the invitations, the flowers, the rings, all of it. I could hear Heather in the bathroom getting her makeup done, giggling about her husband-to-be. I looked up as she was laughing to grab my other lens, and that’s when I saw it. […]

Lexi & Brian’s wedding was supposed to be full of rain. But somehow, the clouds cleared and the sun settled over the water like it had been planned that way all along. It felt fitting for them. Like even the day itself knew how important this moment was. Right before Lexi got into her dress, […]