Katie & Sean are Married! What a beautiful day! Katie and Sean prayed for good weather for their wedding day this April and the Lord answered in kind. With lots of sun and temperatures in the seventies, they enjoyed their time outdoors for photos! The girls got ready at the Minneapolis Marriott Southwest in the morning listening to Taylor Swift playlist to help get everyone in the wedding day mood! Katie and Sean’s details were so much fun with Kate Spade Wedding cork shoes, lots of colors in her flowers, and Katie’s Lucky Willow tree on the invites. Katie’s bouquet was made of all the f ..read more

Roses are not a man’s Best Friend Roses are a classic look in the wedding world and I know a lot of couple’s gravitate towards them for the groom and groomsmen to wear on the wedding day. I am here to tell you although they are a timeless choice, they are not the best. Here are a couple of things that make Roses hard to work with: Roses are SO top heavy. You need at minimum two flower pins to secure them in place. I have had many weddings where I would have to go and turn the flower back straight. Lots of times you just end up with a flower that looks like it had a few too many before the cer ..read more

Engagement Photos at Saint Paul Public Library with Randal & Beth! Randal and Beth’s story is a good slow burn. They had been in each other’s radar, both attending the same church. For years people in their lives did their best to ship this couple, but Randal and Beth weren’t having it. They both didn’t think it was worth pursuing, until about a year ago. Beth is the music director and she orchestrated a group that had them both performing a couple of songs. There was one song in particular they bonded over how much they hated it! From there their interest in each other grew. They started ..read more

Katie & Sean Celebrate their Engagement at Excelsior Pier! Katie and Sean meet online. After talking back and forth, they decided to finally meet in person. It was an impressive feat as Sean was not from the Twin cities! Katie was visiting family in his area and they took the opportunity to get together. Their first date was at a brewery. They both commented on how quickly the date seemed to go. Before they knew it hours and hours had passed. I love when your are just with the right person, time doesn’t seem to matter. Katie was pleased and taken aback on how respectful Sean was to her ne ..read more

Savannah & Tim are MARRIED - Celebrated at Dellwood Country Club Minnesota had a abnormally warm December so although we didn’t have the amount of snow we were hoping for it didn’t mean we did not enjoy our day to the fullest! Savannah and Tim have been planning to make this day the best they could to not only honor their marriage but also honor their guests! We started getting ready for the day at Dellwood Country Club! Instead of a first look, Savannah and Tim wanted to save the first look for the alter and instead went with a first touch. They read their vows and exchanged gifts witho ..read more

Stillwater Proposal with Matt & Paula! Friday something happened Paula didn’t see coming!! But this whole thing started a couple months before that. Matt had originally planned to get the ring on his girl way back in October, but everyone got hit with covid so the plans got pushed off much to his Chagrin. With paula’s parents blessing and the ring made especially for her, Matt waited patiently until the right time to ask Paula! With communication between Matt, Colleen (paula’s sister), and I we had it all planned out. Paula's and Matt and the gang headed to explore Downtown Stillwater wit ..read more

Engagement Photos at Moir Park with Kyle and Mattie! Mattie and Kyle joined me at Bloomington’s Moir Park for their engagement session last week! We got a little bit of fall color and a little bit of early winter snow for our time there! Mattie was playing the field and setting up a lot of dates in order to find someone that could be her person. They meet on hinge. Kyle stuck out in the best way. Mattie says by the second date she thought Kyle was someone she could marry; by the third date she was sure of it. Mattie was taken by Kyle’s thoughtfulness and Kyle was taken with how effortless an ..read more

Michaela & Jordan’s Fall Engagement Session at Thompson Park! Michaela and Jordan met at a boxing class but they are both convinced they were destined to meet either way. These two souls are adventurers to their bones and find that experiences and memories made are the way to live a fuller life. Jordan proposed to Michaela under a waterfall on their recent trip to Iceland! Michaela confused nerves as Jordan being mad, so she was a more than a little surprised when Jordan got on one knee and asked her to marry him! It was a very excited yes! These two dog lovers recently moved to Minnesota ..read more

Amanada & Luke Marry in Minneapolis’s Blaisdell Mansion! ARRIVING early the ladies started their day getting ready in Blaisdells getting ready room. The Blaisdell is a Minneapolis Mansion Wedding venue in the Twin Cities of Minnesota! Amanda and Luke made sure to surround themselves with their best people for their wedding day! Everyone had such great high energy all day. It made the day so enjoyable! Amanda's wedding dress fit like a dream and her and Luke had their first look just outside the front of the house. (The ladies inside enjoyed peaking through the window to see it too!) Luke ..read more

Emily & Brandon Married at Plymouth Community Center’s Millennium Garden! Emily and Brandon got married on a cool fall day. The best way to keep away the cold is to cuddle up in your lovers arms so we made do for all our portrait time together! Walking through the Millennium Garden at Plymouths Community Center just added to the beauty of the day and the stunning details this couple had envisioned and made happen for their big day. All the added fall colors throughout the day like the color of the ladies dresses and the the guy’s flowers were lovely. I think their personalities really ca ..read more