Indiana Wedding & Lifestyle Photographer

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I’m pretty glad for the family I have, both on my husband’s side of the fam and mine. Got to snap this sweet snap a couple weeks ago on vacay when we were in Hilton Head and now I want to dream in pastels for a bit. 😍 * We’ll be packing up again to head to a lake house with my family in a couple days and I am pretty pumped. Here’s to taking rest, making memories, and being with family or people who make you feel like family. 🖤
Currently grateful for: iced coffee, air conditioning, the power coming back on, the sunshine, friends who text me photos of their aged faces with the app everyone seems to be using except for me, taco salad on the menu for tonight, my job, a chance to deep breathe with my son when a bee stings him and watching his panic fade, little pops of color around our house, the birds singing outside the window, another vacation in a few days. * No matter what, there is always something to reframe, re-view, and be grateful for. 🖤✨ * Small weaving I did after attending a workshop by @greyvioletweaving and it’s making me so happy today. ☀️
I promise: you don’t need to know ahead of time how to pose, strut, or model for your wedding photos. You and your someone are already perfect just as you are. You don’t need to change a thing. My job as a photographer is to make you feel comfortable so that your *own unique amazing personality* comes out, and I capture that magic as it already sits within you. * I am a witness to the story that is unfolding before me - your story - and that’s one of the reasons I describe my style as natural, vibrant, and relaxed. It’s natural because I am not coaxing things to happen. I gently guide you into natural looks, then typically things progress on their own while I document. It’s vibrant because I hand edit my images to allow the colors to pop and in warm and rich ways. It’s relaxed because hey, I am a laid back gal, I find that most of my clients are pretty laid back too, and it’s just more fun to have a relaxed time during photos. * My number one goal is to foster an environment of relaxation for you so that you can be fully present in some of these most important times of your life. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Humans are beautiful just as they are. * I’m nearly 2/3rds of the way booked for weddings next year, so if you are looking for a wedding photographer and my style seems to jive with what you are wanting, I would love to grab coffee and chat with you. Follow the link in my profile to check out my website or just DM me, and tell me about yourself and your someone! 🖤
Make life fun, go after the things that light your heart up, be loving, let the sun shine in, get your feet dirty, get your hands down into that dirt too. Breathe in fresh air and listen to the sounds of nature every day. Make music and let music wash over you. Rest when you need to, hustle when you want. Don’t go the way anyone else goes, make your own path. Make the meals that sound good and eat them with delight. Listen to your heart and live with every vibrant bone in your body to the fullest potential. This life is beautiful and you get to be a part of this wild and precious life, so go out and really live it, beautiful friend. There’s nothing quite like seeing someone live life in such a way - it’s powerful and breathtaking, and inspiring and in fact, this world needs you to live your life in your unique way because you make this world a better place by being you. 🖤✨
Recently, I have been able to work on some other fun projects beyond wedding and traditional lifestyle projects, including working with @komposeyoga and @komposekristine for some studio sessions. I love this studio so much, the owner Kristine is ahhmazing, and the people there are so warm and welcoming. It was an honor to be able to shoot for them a couple of weeks ago, and I am so excited to finish up these images soon. * If you’re looking for a local place to practice yoga in Indy, please go check them out. You can go as you are and they will welcome you with kindness and authenticity. ✨🖤 🧘🏻‍♀️
From two to three. This is the part of their session where I started getting tears in my eyes. One of the highest honors I have experienced in my life is witnessing moments like this, and life is so incredibly vibrant because of these things. * To all the new families out there or the soon-to-be new parents: you are amazing and beautiful and wonderful, and you’ve got this. 🖤✨
This day next month, these two are getting hitched!! 😍 Rachel and Aaron are gems and their wedding is going to be AMAZING!! How did I get so lucky to work with such awesome people? I don’t know, but I am pretty freaking grateful. 😍✨🖤
After I book a couple for their wedding and it gets closer to their date, I send out a detailed questionnaire getting all the important things from them for their wedding day and then I schedule a call or meeting to go over it with them. Whenever I get it back, it makes me so happy to read through their answers. Just yesterday, I was reading through one couple’s answers and looking at the Pinterest board the bride put together. My heart was smiling like my face was as I began to see the day my couple envisioned starting to become so real. They were thinking through all the details that were going to make the wedding of their dreams, and it made me so incredibly happy. * My biggest goal is to always work for my clients to make them feel like they can be their full unique selves in every way on their wedding, and everything that’s important to them will be documented with love and intention. I am in awe of the couples I am getting to work with this year. Each one is unique and has brought something that reflects them to their day, and I LOVE it!! 😍 * So what’s something that’s really important for your wedding? Is it the details, is it making sure you are at your full cocktail hour so you can visit with your guests? Is it praying with your soon-to-be before the ceremony? Is it a first look? Is it not doing a first look? Is it something really non-traditional? Is it lots of dancing because you love to dance? Whatever it is, I want to hear!!

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