HONEST IMAGERY THAT STANDS
THE TEST OF TIME
Take away all of the things that you may believe you need in order to have the perfect dream wedding, and you're left with the two of you and your people.
I believe that is all you really need.
There are so many beautiful things about a wedding... the flowers, the venue, the style, the candlelit ambiance. Those things can be wonderful... they help us to elevate the importance of this milestone and remember it forever. But, they aren't the main thing.
After shooting weddings for well over a decade, the pressure to walk into a wedding and simply shoot flowers and the expected planned shots just about made me put down my camera and walk away from it all.
Couples were being fed the idea that amazing details would equal a wedding they would never forget.
But, what I was seeing years after a wedding, was that couples were actually cherishing more of the unscripted moments that I had captured... like photos of them laughing with their grandmother who had now passed away. The highly styled shots of flowers and wedding stationary just weren't the shots that people held on to in the long run.
In order to maintain my love for photography and for documenting these sacred spaces, I knew I needed to make a shift. It was time for me to stop listening to Instagram and the wedding industry, and to start trusting my gut and really capture meaningful moments... the ones I already know my clients value more than anything else.
I want my photography to promote honesty, strong marriages, and lasting heritages.
I aim to create natural, timeless, and unique photographs for my clients to look back on in 50 years and remember what’s important.
I'm absolutely here for it all. Of course I shoot the posed stuff and document the look and feel of the space so that you will be transported back there when you look through your images.
But, if you want to know what honestly makes me come alive as a photographer... scroll through the gallery below. These are the kinds of images that cause me to pause as I literally scroll through thousands of photographs on the regular.