Steph & Nicole

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I always tell couples that where they choose to take their pictures is important.  Don't pick a pretty park that you have never been to because you saw someone else's pictures there once and thought they looked great.  Yes, most likely you will look great too.  But we can do more then that.  I want these pictures to hold a piece of you, not just how you looked that day, but how you felt.  What places hold stories for you? Nicole and Steph have known each other since they were 8.  They grew up as best friends and now, decades later will be marrying each other August.  For their session we watched the sunrise on the shore, and than hiked into the woods.  Not just any woods but a forest plantation Nicole's mom had helped build.

Here was their sacred space, amongst the tall trees.  Sheltered beneath the pines Steph and Nicole shared their story of long lasting friendship, and love, and long distances, and adventures as we celebrated THEM in this place.

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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: 

Laura & Tyler

Well, I have been dying to share some of these so here they are.  Last weekend I had the pleasure of shooting alongside Gabe Photography.  And because he just kills it at what he does, while he was busy capturing everything else, I got to focus on just capturing some of the more quiet moments with the couple.  WHICH IS MY FAVORITE. Yes, that picture makes your shoes look fantastic, and those goofy groomsmen will always make you laugh.  But the images that pull at my heart strings are these.  The ones where you let the chaos and excitement of the day fade away, and for a moment just loved each other.  It is my wish that Tyler & Laura can look back at these and feel a sense of overwhelming love.  That they will be reminded that love can always be abundantly poured out, into their community, into their work and lives, and of course into their relationship with one another.  So that even when marriage is hard (because lets face it, you just signed up to have another human being share your life with you and that is going to get messy sometimes) you can be reminded of that abundance.

**Plus WOW, look how great you two look!  Marriage looks good on you!**

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