One. That’s what this past year’s wedding season turned into. One. One wedding. And honestly, there’s something about it that is more poetic and more beautifully than I ever thought imaginable. Because I am reminded that when we are given the gift of documenting someone’s wedding, it is always just one. Even when our season’s […]
We lovingly started calling ourselves “Bodyguards of Joy.” Here we were, in the middle of a global pandemic, believing that life still needed to be celebrated, needed to be remembered, needed to be documented. We believed that a virus could take a lot of things from us, but joy didn’t have to be one of […]
It’s not about what you do or what you have or what you know. It’s about who you are. Love…is about who you are. It’s about the lessons you’ve learned and the struggles you’ve overcome and the stories you’ve lived. It’s about letting someone else’s heart see all of your heart and then holding that […]
Photographing someone’s wedding day is an oddly intimate relationship to share. You come into the quiet, the stillness, the lingering moments, and you hope to capture the space in between so that they can never be lost. You stand present for the tears, the anticipation, the immense joy, and you try to document the emotion […]
You know what’s funny about spending the majority of your time with couples?? You sometimes forget that they weren’t always a couple. You forget that they each have individual histories. You forget that they didn’t always know each other. You forget that their stories weren’t always one. Or were they? I often catch myself wondering […]
It was the house. That was one of the hardest parts for me; the house. Growing up, I had a difficult time feeling “in control”, so one of the ways that I managed that was to keep my room meticulously clean. Every day. All the time. Of course, as I got older and I ventured […]