If I blogged every single collaboration I do with other creatives – well, there simply aren’t enough days in the year. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but it’s been more than a year since I shot this session and for whatever reason, it got lost in the shuffle of collaboration shoots that I’m not required […]

When Julie & Brian and I met in early July for their booking meeting and we left with their entire timeline and wedding day laid out. An afternoon ceremony and cake and punch reception meant we’d be able to push their Bridal Party and Bride & Groom Portraits for after the reception and closer to the ideal golden hour light we all want and love. But the weather looked iffy off and on all day. Was it going to rain or just stay cloudy? Any natural light photographer will tell you that they can work with cloudy but with shooting so close to sunset, I admit I was a tad worried. What if we lost the light sooner than we’d hoped?

It’s been over a year since I’ve shot a wedding at Broadway United Methodist Church but less than a year since shooting a reception at The Grand Lodge. Both places are equally beautiful and are major landmarks in Downtown Paducah. Those two reasons alone would have had me jumping at the chance to photograph Ashley & Joe’s wedding but it was a simple phone call from Ashley’s mom that “had me at hello”.

You know that awesome feel you get when you meet someone and you click almost immediately? That’s exactly how I felt after only a few minutes of chatting with sweet Julie & Brian! The more we talked the more comfortable I felt with booking my one and only free Saturday in October and by the […]

The trust that my couples have in me is so humbling. Neil and I feel this with each and every wedding we photograph and we are always so honored to get the opportunity to work with such amazing people! Take Alaina & Chris, for example…

They hired me to photograph their engagement session and wedding from a Skype call we did while I was still pregnant! More than a year and a half from their wedding date, we began their planning and it seemed so far away. But then suddenly it was time for Neil and I to head up to St. Louis for their engagement session! And at last, this time last week we were packing our bags for their Haue Valley wedding!

Samantha & Zach are proud of the life they’ve built very in their first year of marriage – and they should be! Their lovely home and the property it sits on was the perfect setting for their anniversary portraits. We even broke out the top tier of their wedding cake to see if it really […]