Go away…but not you!

From the way Andrea described her Newlands wedding day vision, I knew it would be an amazingly memorable celebration. The priority? Get married to her best friend and have beautiful portraits in a mountain view location. Spoiler: she accomplished both those goals. 😉 Wedding preparations were calm, gentle, graceful, and elegant. Just like Andrea. She…

Over a month ago, we had a rainy day. A very rainy day. We almost had to reschedule our shoot, in fact. But I had a plan…and Alisha was willing to trust me. So, there we were: a wedding dress, a bouquet of bright flowers, a pair of blue shoes, an entourage of family, and…

I’ve been part of well over one hundred weddings, but this one will be particularly memorable for three reasons: 1) Kaylee and Aaron had their DIY forest wedding in a “cathedral in the forest” with a massive rock wall as their backdrop, 2) the last time I was at a wedding in the woods, it…

Up front, her groom was waiting for her, unable to stand still; he shifted back and forth on his feet, energizer bunny energy needing to be released. And oh so anxious to see his bride. He took a deep breath. The air filled his cheeks like two wads of bubble gum, and then he remembered…

I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face: every wedding day is beautiful. However, a Cleveland Dam wedding hold a whole new level of beauty that is wildly unprecedented (the only ceremony that has ever come close is the American Creek Lodge view and I beg of you not to make me choose between…