Laura + Ben | married!
Laura + Ben's High Line wedding was a perfect celebration of their love. They were surrounded by the people they love, and so comfortable, that when it was time to walk down the aisle, it was as though they were simply made to marry each other. No nerves. No jitters. So sweet, and pure love!
High Line is a gorgeous venue + I'm always happy to shoot there. Enjoy seeing what I saw, along with some help from my trusty sidekick, Savannah, below!
(and I'm just going to put this little piece of hope into the universe. I'm way down for offering my handlettering/calligraphy for brides and events! Scary, YUP! But I love it, and find myself with all my "spare time" (which I have essentially none of! basically nervous writing during Cavs games!) practicing and writing and writing! SOOOOO if you want to chat about it with me, I'm game!)
Katie + Tyler
I remember first talking with Katie about how she wanted me to shoot her wedding as I left my midwife appointment...in OCTOBER of 2014! We chatted over Jeni's about parenting styles (me to my then 2 and 4 year old boys, and her to her almost 1 year old boy), weddings, Clintonville, and everything in between. After a first birthday lifestyle shoot for their family, and a frigid engagement session, and over a YEAR later, the wedding finally came! I couldn't wait to shoot at Jorgensen, I've fallen in love with all the images I've seen from weddings there, I just wanted to make my own!
It's so awesome watching + getting to shoot a family coming together on a wedding day. Of course, my Mama heart melted when her little man came to see her and Tyler all dressed up...and the way he wandered around the ceremony, so cute!
*scroll to the bottom for a vendor line up!*
Excited that I'll be back at this gorgeous venue in a few months, twice!
Enjoy!
Jessica + Javier | bridal portraits!
Jessica + Javier weren't even actually MY clients. My assistant + awesome second shooter, Savannah mentioned a while back to me how she was going to do a bridal shoot for a couple who, just the previous summer, got married at the Franklin Park Conservatory, but didn't quite love all of their bridal portraits. I thought it sounded super awesome, and smart of them, to go back, so soon, and get the portraits they wished they had done on their wedding day. (note to future brides: make time for portraits on your wedding day, avoid hiring uncle to do said portraits!)
Well, when it came down to it, Savannah's scheduled included a birth, and Jessica + Javier's schedule was not REscheduleable! ...thus they became MY clients! Thank goodness for our serendipitous meeting - I loved getting to remake these images for them + hope they fill the empty spot of wedding photos they were missing out on!
Enjoy!
getting lost along the way | finding my way back!
Something happened over here, and while it was all good, there was a big part of me missing. In 2009, when I started this business (or "business" as I was still working full time, too), I used my blog as a space to do my thing. To tell stories. Then, I got busy. I got booked. And booked, and booked. And, because I didn't NEED to tell stories to gain clients, I stopped telling my story on this space. My clients still got their own beautiful stories in their wedding galleries...but what about here?!
Now we're well into our journey over here, and I've gained a whole lot of storytelling muses in the form of three Little Mac Babies. I'm making a vow to myself this year to make it a priority to get stories onto these (internet) pages. Because, well, it's my space, and I can do that. Also, though, because the beauty I get to capture deserves that!!
Not only that, but I see this space as a sort of journal for our life journey as well. We've chosen the path of homeschooling, and as a result I'm on the internet quite a bit looking for other family's stories of success, failure, and everything in between. I hope that by sharing our story, we can reach maybe even one family who might need it. Isn't that what we're all looking on the internet to do? Connect, somehow, with someone else?
I'm not making a schedule, or following rules for myself. I am just saying, HEY! SELF! BLOG! and hoping it sticks.
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen that this week starts a stretch of 9 weddings in 5 weeks. SAY WHHHAAAT!? How is that math even really possible. My crazy brain works like, well, I survived a whole wedding season PREGNANT (most recently 2014), then last year we had a newborn, and we survived...I can definitely take on some crazy amount of weddings. PSHHHHH. I got this.
Did I mention I'm a little sleep deprived?
So you're here! Stick around, subscribe? is that a thing? And you'll get to see all the fun this year. More than the teasers and eye candy I show over on the social medias.
nursing sessions!
So here I am (or thought I would be, more on that in a minute) in the thick of all the emotions about coming to end on my nursing journey with my children...I always allowed baby lead weaning, Finn stopped around 12 months, Sawyer at 9, and Coco, well, while there's currently no end in sight, I know, now that she's a year old, that month by month is all I can really count on for her. The way her personality is, one day, boom! she'll just decide she's big enough to not need to nurse, because she wants to keep up with her brothers. And then? I'll close this hard, stressful, amazingly important chapter of my motherhood book. (hold on a minute while I wipe up my puddle of tears)
As a creative, it's hard to know when and where inspiration will hit. In this instance, it was through another talented photographer, Val Ely over at Happy Ely After
who, during our family session, snapped some of me nursing Coco. When I saw them, I immediately knew I would LOVE to give others the joy I felt when I viewed my photos.
What I'm planning for you guys is this: quick sessions that will be on location (a park in COLUMBUS OHIO), lots of pretty quilts, (if Ohio Spring agrees) some beautiful light, and YOU AND YOUR BABY. I don't care how old or young your baby is, just that they're hungry ;) . . . . and if they're not right away, I'll scheduled in time that I can make sure to get some sweet snuggles, and have time to wait for them to be ready to nurse.
What you'll get from the session is a full gallery of images online, and one digital download of your favorite from the day (the rest available for purchase), with no session fee. A big part of motherhood, to me, is supporting other Mamas. And this feels like my chance to get to do that. I'm happy to be able to give amazing memories of the most precious times in your life, when I'm able to, and so I'm taking this opportunity to do so!
Now the details. I don't have everything figured out because the weather is just so unpredictable, but I'm thinking around the week of April 18th through the 23rd. I want to shoot as many as I can, so I'll offer one week night and one weekend evening. What you can do, until we have an accurate forecast, is email me if you know you have availability that week. I'll base my week day solely on weather, so make sure you're available all throughout the week. And then once I nail down location, date, and times, I'll confirm your space!
I'm so so excited about these, and would absolutely love for this to reach as many families as possible, so please SHARE away, and let people who might be interested know!
Thanks so much for being here!
#bradandtawny | married!
The most perfect winter wedding. Brad + Tawny are amazing people. They're the couple behind Give614 and their wedding just felt special.
They were married at St. Joseph's Cathedral in downtown Columbus, and partied at The Vue. It was my first time at this venue, and I thought it was really interesting. Excited to shoot there some more this year.
Enjoy reliving their wedding day!
