Ashley & T | Minneapolis Engagement Session

I am an engineer.  This means I absolutely love a quiet coffee shop to edit for hours (the reason why I can get you your wedding gallery in less than two weeks), am happy to go through all the details of your day, and am constantly challenging myself to learn new things.  

What this also means though is I have a giant personal space bubble!!   While my family, ENFP dominated friend group, and husband have been trying to break this (I am literally surrounded by people who's love language is touch)  it still takes me awhile to warm up.  

So I am not sure what was about Ashley and T; their inviting personalities, her contagious smile, the way he can make her eyes light up.  But something called me to come in close.  AND IT WAS SO POWERFUL.   Combining story alongside these intimate portraits I can feel their love pulse right through me in these images.  

Becky & Ryan || A Family Engagement Session

I am so smitten with this family my heart could just burst.  From the affirming complements of the youngest "THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER" to the pre-teen who took awhile warming up but fell in love with the hiking trails, the daughter that brought a camera of her own and the other who shared stories with me as we walked.  

And of course the amazing parents!  Who's recent engagement is bringing all these kids together and loving them with graceful hearts that say go, and explore your world, and have adventures (just try not to get your shorts too wet)!  They applied that same grace to their session, forgetting about keeping the white shirts unstained, and without torturously trying to line up the kids perfectly, plastered with cheesy smiles.  Instead we captured their day authentically, and  it really was the best day ever.  I can not wait to photograph this family more on the wedding day. 

Tabby & Taylor

Good People.  Sometimes you just know it in your bones.  And from the very first email I knew I would adore these two.  Quirky, unique, entirely in love with one another, and thats what showed in their images.  I can not wait to photograph their wedding come November.  (Though we did their session during the summer solstice so those short winter days can take awhile to get here.)