After the long, cold winter months, it feels so good to be outside shooting sessions again! Taylor and Adam’s Cedar Rapids engagement session was the perfect way to spend the first moments of spring.  We aligned their engagement session with a wedding-planning trip to Taylor’s hometown of Cedar Rapids. As a photographer, I never quite […]

I spent my Valentine’s weekend this year celebrating — Galentine’s style! When I saw that Shelly Sarver was hosting a flower workshop at Tamory Hall in Pella for Galentine’s day, I signed up ASAP! A fun morning of creating is not something I like to pass up! I grabbed one of my high school gal […]

Oh you guys, I’m finally sharing photos from the most gorgeous shoot I attended back in October! Last fall was crazy with weddings and moving, so now I’m finally getting caught up on projects like this that are just for me and my personal growth as a photographer 🙂 Wayyy before the pandemic was a […]

Think you have to know how to pose to get romantic engagement photos like this? Think again! One of the biggest questions I get from my couples before their engagement session is “How will we know what to do for poses?” I think a lot of couples see photos like this and think the couple […]

Hey there! This is something new I don’t share often about. I LOVE a good project! Especially if it comes with a dramatic before/after photo. While this project wasn’t overly dramatic, a few small changes during our master bedroom refresh turned our room from a cave I didn’t enjoy, to a room I never want […]

We’re only two weeks into 2021 and I’ve already photographed my first wedding of the year! You won’t believe Anna and Timothy planned their Iowa winter wonderland wedding in just THREE MONTHS! For those of you counting, that’s an entire wedding planned in a mere fourth of the time an average wedding takes to plan! […]

Just before Thanksgiving, I got to shoot somewhere new — Galena! Josh and Olivia are getting married at Ashton Hill Farm Galena next year, so a Galena fall engagement session was the perfect way to celebrate their upcoming marriage!  We met for their session in Galena’s quaint downtown, which is the quintessential of small business […]

Looking at this session, you would never believe it’s November in Iowa! Usually November is cold and windy, but Ashley and Brandon’s dreamy sunset Iowa City engagement session felt like early fall! It was such a fun day! After coming out of a busy season of weddings, an engagement session was such a relaxing change […]

Shelby and Koby’s day was so fun! As with every wedding this year, they had some changes to their plan, which ended up being a lot of changes. Their original venue plan: completely overhauled. They had to switch venues very last-minute, but it worked out so well for them! Their River Center Davenport wedding was […]