Nicole & Steph | Duluth Minnesota Wedding Photography

Nicole and Steph's Duluth wedding cracked open a beautiful idea. The couple is the main focus of the day, followed by the community that surrounds them, but there was a third subject their wedding so wonderfully brought to life, PLACE.  

The day started at the salon down the street.  Nicole got her make-up done by someone who knew her since she was three.  Then Nicole and Steph caught up over lunch, relaxed and got ready together in their own home.  Follow that up with a first look at their high school where they had first started dating 6 years ago.  Their day also included a surprise trip to the hospital (conveniently enough where they both work) to visit their new niece that decided she too wanted to be around for their day.  Everything, from ceremony and reception location, the local jewelry and wedding band, and a sunset stroll along Lake Superior, so perfectly highlighted the city in which they found love.  

Brianna & Alex

I would like to believe I bring a sense of calm with me to wedding days.   I want to fight the current culture that says you must spend this entire very important, beautiful day posing for pictures.

And instead I give an alternative that says spend your day being present with one another.  

Alex & Brianna had such a romantic and easy chemistry about them.  As their photographer I decided to take a step back and just capture that truth.  So that when they look back on these photos years later, the stories these photos hold will be real moments for them to keep.

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P.S.  My website is filling up with women in white!  So cool to see a dream of mine coming to life: