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The conclusion of my 2024 wedding season comes with a very special backstory of how I know the bride. I’ve known Hayley since she was a little girl. Her older sister and I became fast friends after we moved to Michigan when I was 11 and while Hayley was much younger than us, she’d often be with us whenever I visited their home. Fast forward to our adult years and Hayley reached out to me about…

Amy and Tim expected nothing short of a typical midwest summer weather when they planned their July Mustard Seed Gardens wedding, and yet we could not have hoped for better weather. And by weather I really mean temperature and humidity… it was perfect. So perfect, that the adorable setup on the patio rented from Mustard Seed was in use all day, despite fully expecting everyone to shelter in air…

Just when I thought my 2023 wedding season had come to a close, one last elopement slipped onto my calendar and it was the perfect way to send out the year and wrap up the holiday season. These high school sweethearts planned their Bottleworks Hotel Elopement in a matter of weeks, and it was every bit as stunning as the photos make it look. Lindley and Kush have been engaged for a while and…

Jen and Evan’s Indianapolis Artsgarden wedding reception (or should I say elopement reception) was the wrap to my 2023 wedding season and the perfect way to tie up the year. If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll know that elopements are near and dear to my heart and my own story, and a delayed reception to celebrate it all is the same storyline of my own marriage. Jen and Evan were married a…

Arvin & JD’s wedding at the Mavris was my ‘unofficial’ return from leave and the perfect way to ease (or jump, really) back into things. Every once in a while I work with a couple so closely during the planning process that by the time we get to the wedding day I’m emotionally invested in every passing moment. This was one of those couples for me. Pair that with the sheer joy and adoration that…

As a wedding photographer, you don’t truly have a ‘place of work’ and in most cases, you don’t really have coworkers, either. My workplace changes regularly, sometimes with each wedding or session I shoot, and my coworkers are people I see occasionally. I’ve always felt, though, like Mavris was my home base. I’ve shot so many weddings there over the last 9+ years we’ve been here in Indianapolis,…

This is the first wedding I’m sharing that I didn’t shoot. Yes, you read that right. I didn’t shoot this Black Iris wedding, but I did still edit it! Such a strange thing for me, especially after getting to know Leah and Brad so well throughout their engagement session and our various meetings, phone and video calls over the last year (and then some). Lucky for me, my associate shooter, Jaclyn,…

Kelsie and Kodie’s Crystal Coop Wedding was my first time at the Anderson venue, but was such a treat to photograph. It also turned out to be one of the first true scorching days of the summer (amidst the wild stormy season we’ve been having), but we made it through and looking back through this post, Kelsie and Kodie made the sweltering heat look easy and even enjoyable. You can see Kelsie’s…

Confession time. Years ago, shortly after I moved to Indiana, I second shot a wedding at Mustard Seed Gardens with a photographer friend of mine and I’ve been itching (no, yearning) to go back since. Granted, back then we had a rainy day, but this time the sun showed up and we took full advantage of the perfect weather for this spring wedding. Grace and Kyle’s Mustard Seed Gardens wedding was…

Mavris Wedding | Indianapolis Wedding Photographer

This year was one of my busiest wedding seasons in all of my years in business. It also marks the end of my pandemic weddings (yes, some of my couples just got their weddings back this year after two years of craziness) and the first year back to my version of ‘full time’ for weddings since having kids. It was busy and it was beautiful. Alexa and Calem’s Mavris wedding in October was one of the…

Greencastle Wedding | Backyard Wedding

Every once in a while a backyard wedding fits me so well I feel like Cinderella, just a photographer version of her, and the wedding is my glass slipper. So much of this job is about communication starting from the very first inquiry down to those final exchanges as the gallery is delivered, and with these two I knew from those initial exchanged words that we were meant to come together for their…

Flower Farm Wedding | Ann Arbor Wedding

It’s official. I’m leaving photography to become a flower farmer. Kidding, but only sort of. A girl can dream, right? And flower farmers also need to take photos… of flowers, of people among the flower fields, you get the idea. So it’s all still fitting. I’ve been looking forward to this Ann Arbor wedding since Natalie’s first email over a year ago. In case you don’t know where this is going,…

Indianapolis Central Library Wedding | Indianapolis Wedding Photographer

It’s been far too long since I first shot a vow renewal at the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis, leaving me counting the days until this wedding happened and it was everything I dreamed it would be and more. Katie and Sean are both avid readers and their Indianapolis Central Library wedding was the perfect way for them to tie their love of books into their celebrations. Their engagement…

Zionsville Family Session | Zionsville Family Photographer

I gave myself permission this year to let go of some parts of this job in order to be more present with my family and one of those things was blogging. I’ve always loved this part of the job, but the truth is, sometimes it slows down my workflow. What this really means is that my blog now looks like I’m solely a wedding photographer instead of a family photographer, too, when the truth is I’m…

Ford Piquette Plant Wedding | Detroit Wedding Photographer

Amanda and Joey were a late add to my 2022 wedding calendar, but it all seemed like a perfect fit and fell into place smoothly. Even though I’m based out of Indianapolis, being from Michigan I find myself still shooting weddings in the are each year. This year I had the amazing fortune of shooting 3 (well, technically I’ve shot two so far, but I’m headed up for the third next week). I was already…

Black Barn Vineyard Wedding | Michigan Wedding Photography

Never could I have ever imagined that years after moving away from Michigan I would be shooting Michigan weddings almost every summer. It’s one of those little details that overwhelms me with gratitude for this career I’ve built out of a childhood hobby and a favorite college course. This year brings me three (can you believe it!?) Michigan weddings, the first of which is this gorgeous Ellen and…

Mavris Wedding | Indianapolis Photographer

I’ve officially hit the busiest wedding season I’ve had to-date in the last few years. While this is my first blog post of the bunch, this coming weekend I will be shooting my last wedding of a long stretch with a couple of upcoming weeks to breathe before things pick back up again. Summer weddings in the midwest are not to be taken lightly, either. It can be so hot and humid here that even a…