Montana & Arizona Wedding and Portrait Photography

This was my last wedding of the season. This was my last wedding of the season, and because I was eight months pregnant, it was a bitter-sweet moment for me.  For selfish resasons, wedding photography allows me to have a creative outlet in life.  It allows me opportunities to be with other adults, be creative, […]

This blog post is long overdue.  Long, long overdue. This wedding is one that I have been dying to show all of you. This wedding is one that I have been waiting and waiting to share . . . Once upon a time, a young woman came to visit me about sharing her wedding day […]

“What do you think will be unique about your wedding?” I ask all my couples this question. “What do you think will be unique about YOUR wedding?” Cole (groom):   “There will be a lot of people talking about us only knowing eachother for six months!  Some will think we are crazy, while others . . […]

“I will hire you—on one condition . . . you may not DATE my daughter!”  These are the words Mr. Stordahl of Triple S Building Center spoke to T.J. when he thought he might give him a job at his lumberyard.  You and I both know that when a story starts out like that . […]

Oh, how I loved this wedding.  This sweet couple was fun, relaxed, had an artsy flare, and were a bit quirky .  . . red shoes, handmade headpieces, a black frame,  an auntie to marry them in crazy sunglasses, AMAZING cake, beautiful clouds, wildflowers, mountains, and perfume dancing, kissing, laughing roses and onions, lots of […]

Three unbelievable weddings in the last two weekends – I don’t even know where to begin!  The past couple of weeks, weddings that have been only in the dreams of three sweet brides have come to reality!  These three girls met their prince charming and went into wedding planning mode.  Each of these brides have […]

As many of you know, we are expecting baby #6 . . . And like all pregnant women, I have been super, super lazy!  I have just been laying around-watching re-runs of Lie to Me and House, eating Cheetos and  the newest Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream (together of course), and letting my dear husband do […]

  I sat here on this very chair several weeks ago, thinking about how much must have happened in this room.  I was sitting in the “mud room” of a family whose only daughter was getting married.  I looked at the coats on the hooks, and wondered how many nights and days they had been […]