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winter engagement, ice skating engagement

If you’ve been following along for a while on here, you already know I’m a huge fan of bringing fur babies to engagement sessions and Wallace totally stole the show!! At the end of Taylor and Blake’s Clarkston engagement session, I pulled out my phone to snap a quick photo to post on my Instagram […]

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grosse pointe war memorial engagement

Give me all of the velvet dresses! Emily rocked this maroon dress for her engagement photos, and paired with Ryan’s navy suit they absolutely slayeddd. We ran around outside of the Grosse Pointe War Memorial for their winter engagement shoot, and Emily told me about her early days crushing on Ryan when they were in […]

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Downtown Detroit Engagement

Kirsten and Josh are hands down one of the sweetest couples I have ever met! I’ve known Kirsten for a little while before her and Josh were engaged, so as soon as she reached out about their 2019 Pine Knob Carriage House wedding I was basically jumping for joy!! They are absolutely those kind of […]

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Michigan Wedding Photographer

I want to start off by saying that on the day of Katie and Brian’s downtown Detroit engagement session, it was BY FAR the coldest day of the year! We hopped around city streets, caught some action in traffic, embraced the magical steam of a manhole and ended the evening with the most perfect golden […]

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Blake Farms Engagement Photos

In the fall of 2017 I had the privilege of getting to photograph Shelby and Robert’s wedding day. This winter I was so sooo excited when Shelby asked me to do a winter session with them right before the holidays! We spent the evening in the freezing cold at Blake Farms and these two were […]

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Detroit Athletic Club Engagement

Erin and Matt have such a natural, easy love for each other and these city views just topped off all the pretty. You can tell they adore each other by the sweet little grins they exchange and the way they wrap up together. Seriously guys, just try to scroll through these photos of them without […]

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Michigan Family Photographer

I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Kymberly early 2018 at a Tuesday’s Together meeting. She’s the owner of Motor City Vintage Rentals and is an absolutely inspiration to women and entrepreneurs alike. We worked on possibly the most stunning shoot I’ve ever got to be a part of, and an equally gorgeous engagement session […]

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Downtown Detroit Engagement

Lexi and Tyler’s engagement session was so sooo good for 100 reasons, but two of my favorites were: Motor City Vintage Rentals was there and Lexi asked for my advice picking out this stunner of a dress! It’s no secret these two look like they waltzed out of a Vogue magazine, but they’re so fun […]

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Belle Isle Boat House Wedding

The first time I met Katie and Graham we chatted over Moscow Mules about their wedding dreams, their sweet rescue pup and I knew we were going to be a perfect fit. These two are some of the most genuinely fun, light hearted people I’ve ever got to work with – not to mention they […]

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detroit wedding photographer

Alright, you can’t tell me you don’t want to buy Shelby’s dress and wear it everyday right?! But seriously guys, Shelby and Sean are so much fun I could have hung out with them all night! True story we did try to get some pretty photos celebrating with champagne in front of the James Scott […]

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