If you’ve been on my IG the last week or so, you might have noticed that all of my posts had the same general topic- wedding planning. I wanted to share some tips and insight that I’ve gathered over the last decade, and then I thought why not put it all together in a post for you all! So, bookmark this to come back to, or send it to a friend. Happy planning lovelies!   No. 1 Did you say yes over the holidays? Or maybe you said yes a bit ago, but wanted to wait until after the holidays to start planning? If so, this week is for you!! I will be sharing one tip each day this week fo ..read more

How excited am I to share this wedding day with you? Too excited. I loved meeting Brie and Kevin in Chicago this summer, and after their engagement session I knew we’d have so much fun on their wedding day.  I had zero idea just how much fun we’d have though! The attention to detail that went into this day really just is a testament to how important weddings are.  I know that sounds so material, but when you have 2 people who have been waiting their whole entire lives to say I do to the person of their dreams, the day has to be perfect. Enter the friends and family of Kevin and Brie ..read more

This past weekend, I was a part of a wedding that truly reminded me why I love this job. There are times where it’s hard to work for yourself, be the boss, have a life, and show everyone your world.  It can be taxing to feel guilty posting photos on social media of fun things when you have piles of work to do.  There can be guilt, loneliness, and exhaustion. But then a couple comes along who truly love you.  Not just your pretty instagram feed or your pricing structure, but you as a person.  They love the way you look at love and the way you yearn to capture their story.&nb ..read more

So I went back and forth on posting this, but I decided that I was just too excited and I wanted to share this process with you all. I am in the middle of planning my own wedding (surprise?) and it has been so much fun. Donna has been so involved, and coming from the work that I do, she has made sure to make it special for me every step of the way. I want to share a little about how we met, a little about her, and our amazingly perfect engagement session with my girl Jess. Buckle up friends, we’re taking a bit of a ride! Weddings bring people together in the strangest of ways. I photographed a ..read more

I encourage you to take everything you think you know about weddings and throw it out the window. Seriously, before you keep reading this blog post take all of your wedding thoughts, crumple them up, and toss them out. Ready? Ok great. Allie did that too when she started planing her perfect wedding day. Allie is one of my very very best friends. Like we’re more than 11 years into friendship this one and me. It was kind of a no brainer that I’d be there with her, making sure all of the best memories were captured. Just in case I wasn’t already aware of that, she made it a point to remind me mul ..read more

Traveling for sessions is one of my favorite things, so when I was asked to come down to Greensboro NC for Shaun & Keli’s engagement session, I jumped all over that opportunity! We met in the downtown area, planning to walk around and get some really great urban vibes. I was able to get a really quick idea of where we would end up as we walked around, but we really could have gone anywhere in the area and it would have been just as beautiful. Walking around, I got to know them a bit more, and we talked about their proposal story. This is one of my favorite things to do at engagement sessio ..read more

How about a blog post? Crazy huh I’m back and ready to blog the crap outta 2022, starting with a super fun recap from my Charleston trip! I spent my thirtieth birthday with some of my greatest friends, Kelly & Buck. Kelly and I run our education business together, and we are birthday month twins! It was a no brainer when we sat down to figure out if we wanted to go in a trip together when and where it would be. Charleston was a place that I’ve alway wanted to visit, and I knew they had both been before and loved it. Easy choices!! We crammed our 3 days in with so many amazing things to do ..read more

When you open your inbox and read a story that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, that’s when you know.  Cielo not only gave me all the feels, but she knew exactly what she wanted in her wedding photographer. Someone who was detail oriented, and who she’d feel confident would take care of everything on their day. That indeed was me and I couldn’t be happier. Ian & Cielo’s engagement session will forever hold a special place in my portfolio.  I remember the messages leading up to the session, and her worrying that she did too much.  Never.  We had a picni ..read more

I know they say love can take you places, but how about Chicago specifically? Today I am sharing a stunning Chicago engagement session! While talking with Brie about plan for scheduling this session, we had originally planned for last November.  Things didn’t pan out quite the way we had hoped, and so we pushed forward to the spring.  Little did I know then that my spring would consist of moving 6 hours away, and diving back into the most crazy season I’ve had in my almost decade of work.  So, June came and we decided this was going to be it! I hadn’t really ventured around Chic ..read more

Casper Chesney · Forever (The Beach Boys Cover) Pittsburgh cookie tables, puppy guests, and baseball ticket giveaways. Those are just a few of the things I was able to watch and capture for this new Mr. & Mrs. I walked into the hotel room and found a fairly quiet crew of ladies.  I soon found out that they were going to be one of the chillest, most go with the flow wedding parties ever. We chatted, laughed, talked about my fear of heights from their engagement session (which you can see here), and I snapped away.  Then there was a knock at the door.  Lucy was here!! Lucy is ..read more