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Meet Katie and Kevin!

I’ve been so excited to share this 2015 wedding with you. It was so much fun to shoot! Katie’s look was so unique, I just couldn’t get enough! Her whimsical look was so beautiful and a real treat to photograph. I have a love for big tulle dresses!

Katie and Kevin are so passionate about traveling which made for the perfect element of personalization at their reception. Something I had never seen before and thought it was just too cute!

I know you’ll love this beautiful wedding, enjoy!

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This year has been pretty incredible.

When you are little and you dream of your future and your life… You see all sorts of things. I know I wanted to be a famous singer, and then a nurse, and then a ceramics art teacher, and then of course – a photographer! I wanted a beautiful wedding and a love like my grandparents. As I got older I dreamt of buying a fixer upper on a nice piece of land. I grew up riding quads and dirt bikes on my grandparents property. Along with Fall hay rides on the tractor, yearly birthday parties spent outside, catchin’ fish in the “crick” and picking apples.  I think this is where my love for the country and being outside began.

If someone told me 8 years ago when I start dating Nick that all of our wildest dreams would not only come true, but be surpassed – I swear I would not have believed you. Our love for each other, dedication to our jobs, support from family & friends, and never letting go of what we want got us where we are today. I have a million things to be grateful for this year – Health, a successful business doing something I love, literally the best and most supportive family in the world, an incredible husband, friends I’ve had for a lifetime, and a roof over our heads and food in our bellies. THANK YOU. To every single person that has touched our lives through the years. I am so inspired by friends, family, clients to keep working towards all of our dreams.

Here is our 2015 in iPhone photos!!


 

-Hiked the Smoky Mountains in January

-Skied in New York in February

-Spent time with friends in Hocking Hills

-Celebrated Easter with family

-Endless date nights

-Bon fires and cookouts with friends

-Picked strawberries and ate ice cream

-Shot 30 amazing weddings and 100 portrait sessions

-My work was featured in both 2015 Knot Ohio issues and the 2015 National

-We kissed our puppies and drove our old truck

-I went to Mexico with my parents and sister, our first vacation as just a family of four since I was a small child

-Attended weddings and watched my friends get married

-Found out our best friends are pregnant and having a baby girl

-Celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary in California

-Picked pumpkins and ate chili with friends

-Bought the fixer upper we’ve always dreamed of in November

-Had another amazing Christmas with everyone we love in the world


 

Every year I’m amazed at where the world has taken us. 2015 will be hard to top!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

 

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My job involves me hanging out with happy couples in beautiful places. Not sure it gets much better than that. I love meeting these couples, getting to know them, and freezing these amazing times in their lives otherwise gone. Here is a reflection of my 2015 engagements. Some really spectacular times with some great human beings. Thank you to each and every one of you for choosing me to be able to provide you with these memories.

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