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Detroit Engagement Photographer

With a huge chunk of my weddings for this year being rescheduled, I started looking back on some of my favorite engagements (that should have been 2020 weddings). Emilie and Steven’s was one of the absolute best! We hopped around Detroit from the DIA to the streets downtown. When I was posting behind-the-scenes on Instagram […]

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Edsel and Eleanore Ford House Engagement

Rebecca is one of those girls that you feel like you’ve known forever when you get to sit down and chat for the first time. By sit down and chat I mean we met up at my favorite wine bar, talked about how Kirk proposed, the dreams she had for her wedding, and of course […]

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Edsel and Eleanore Ford House Wedding

Is it so weird I wish I could have third-wheeled when Andrew proposed to Kayla?! Right before they were about to head to Disney for vacation, Kayla came home to a single pink rose on their porch and a path of rose petals leading out to their backyard. Outside, Andrew was in their gazebo playing […]

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Eastern Market Engagement

The most magically magnificent rainbowesque engagement session happened – and I got to photograph it. Can you guys tell I’m a little overly excited about this one? Molly and Andrew were so much fun exploring the murals in Eastern Market with me. The rainbow zebra mural is by far one of my favorites. Guys, how […]

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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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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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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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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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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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