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Edsel and Eleanor Ford Wedding

Five minutes into meeting Chelsea I felt like we were girlfriends from college. Not only is she the easiest human to get along with – I posted some preview images on Instagram the night of hers and Nick’s Edsel and Eleanor Ford House engagement and I received (no joke) 20 messages of people that knew […]

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I was like a kid in a candy store when the day finally came for Celeste and Tom’s downtown Detroit engagement shoot! Also, this says a lot because I have a serious problem with loving everything sweet, but that’s besides the point haha! I’m not kidding guys I felt like I’ve been loving on Celeste […]

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Holly and Tommy spent the evening dancing seven stories up, on the rooftop of the historic Detroit Athletic Club. They both wore matching Shinola watches, a nod to their high class fashion sense and the company that was founded in Detroit. Holly’s pink gown flowed in the breeze and perfectly complimented the sunset views of […]

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stoney creek engagement

My most embarrassing moment as a photographer happened just before Courtney and Dan’s Stoney Creek engagement session. Prior to their shoot Courtney had texted me telling me they were running a little bit late. I told her it wasn’t a problem, and that I would be in the black SUV in the back of the […]

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Detroit Engagement Photo Ideas

After chatting over drinks in downtown Royal Oak and learning that Lauren works in fashion, you better bet I was soooo pumped to see what she had planned for hers and Todd’s engagement photos. I’m not joking her navy dress was such a stunner I would be wearing that baby around the house doing twirls […]

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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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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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