You know when people say, “I never thought that would happen to me?” Well I’m one of those people. And when you find out what happened to me you’ll see why. I have started this blog post about a million times and I keep deleting it. Maybe I’m embarrassed still, but what I do know […]

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Today I’d like to introduce you to Madison, a senior from the Mt. Vernon area and I met her last weekend for her senior session. She brought along her mother and when deciding on where to go for these pictures, we decided that we would […]

I stood in a room with 3 other people last Friday. It wasn’t just any room, like a family room or office. It was a judges chambers at the Edwardsville courthouse. There I stood as a witness to one of the most intimate weddings I’ve ever been apart of. Jimmy and Ashley have been planning […]

Everyone, meet Amanda. She’s a bubbly senior from Red Bud and we had such a great time at her senior session. When we were discussing the locations for her session, she sent me a photo of a wedding that I took a couple years ago. It was a photo of a bride and groom standing […]

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember a wedding that I shot about 2 years ago. The bride from that wedding, Kelly, said she wanted to take her bridal party pictures at this old church in Waterloo. It’s the Old Baum Church and it was built in the late 1800s. […]

Last weekend I made my way down to Cobden, Illinois to the Historic Bell Hill Bed & Breakfast. I absolutely love this venue for so many reasons. It’s a location that guests can come for the ceremony and then stay for the reception to take place right after. There’s no traveling between the two events […]