Wedding day mornings are often a conglomeration of so many widely ranging emotions that it can be hard to determine exactly what it is you’re feeling in a single moment. You’re excited and you’re nervous and you’re trying to check boxes off your mental to-do list, and you’re doing all of this while trying to be...
Elyse and I first met years ago when we were each living in Peoria, IL – though we both attended Bradley University, we didn’t meet until becoming co-workers at Buckle. I often think of these as my in-between years: I was between undergrad and grad school, piecing together a bunch of part time jobs, and...
You learn a lot about people when you hear the ones closest to them describe what they’re like – when they tell you about their quirks and the things they were obsessed with as children and the traits they’ve grown to admire most in them. This is one of the main reasons why I enjoy...
I first met Kaitlynn at a destination wedding in Florida that I photographed a few years back, and since it was a small wedding, I had a chance to interact with her and the other guests more than I would be able to at a traditionally sized wedding. It was wonderful. They all made me...
Kaely and Joe’s story is one of those sweet ones (corny pun a little bit intended, please forgive me) – as I mentioned when I shared their engagement photos last year, they first met at a friend’s wedding while Kaely was near the s’mores bar building her dessert. Joe walked up to grab a s’more...
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