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We are a husband and wife team living in Pensacola, FL, who love documenting special moments.
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28/09/2023

🍁🧣Fall is here and family sessions are in full swing!

We still have some availability left before the holidays, so DM us to snag a spot 😙

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14/07/2021

What sounds better? Spending an hour standing around taking photos, or going on a date doing something that’s special to you?

We’ve known Chrissy for a long time, and in case you don’t know, her florals are INCREDIBLE. And not too long ago, I met Meghan when she was assisting Chrissy at a styled proposal. I watched something so sweet happen that day. The smile and laughter I had seen Chrissy give away so freely to others was being freely given back to her by Meghan. They were absolute sunshine together.

So for their engagement session, I knew we HAD to include florals, and I thought it’d be so sweet to have them make a bouquet together during the session. It gave them something to do other than the typical lame engagement session “make out for an hour, stand awkwardly, and look at me” poses. You can laugh, tell jokes, smile naturally, and lean into each other, all without me forcing you into a pose. You’ll spend an hour having so much fun and feeling natural from the beginning to end. And what’s amazing is that you’ll connect with the photos on such a strong emotional level because every photo overflows with authenticity. That’s what I love to do for every session.

Does that type of session sound more appealing to you? 👀 It definitely does to me! Let’s plan some activities. Bring some props that represent you and your relationship. Let’s pick a location that tells a part of your story. Not only will you be more comfortable, you’ll also have more fun, and you’ll love the photos so much more! They’ll be authentic, speaking to who you two are.

If you’re reading that and thinking, “HECK YES, THIS IS WHAT I WANT,” message me soon because my summer is filling up quick!!! 🎉

07/07/2021

In another life, this moment would have been missed if it weren’t for one lesson we thankfully learned very early.

Listen first.

When we met with with Stephanie and Hale, we didn’t spend our time talking about how great we are. How great of a choice choosing us would be. How we can make their wedding perfect and beautiful. If anything, I feel like we barely talked about ourselves or what we do.

Instead, we listened. We asked questions and listened. We didn’t listen just to say something back so we can be like “ah perfect, here’s how I’m the perfect fit.” No. We listened to see an image of their hearts, their fears, and their desires. And then we said back what we heard.

We learned about their relationship with each other, but just as importantly, we learned about their relationship with God and their personal stories of redemption through Him. Hale talked about how he cries every Sunday through worship just being grateful for the redemption God has brought him through with Stephanie. When talking about his wedding, he said he wants people to touch an aspect of the Holy Spirit through the testimony of their relationship. He wants to plant seeds of hope and faith in trust in the Lord. Stephanie brought up that she didn’t invite a lot of people to her baptism, but their ceremony will be like a representation of a baptism, a public expression of their faith where everyone will watch and understand how God brought them to Himself and to each other.

We went into the wedding day intentionally looking for moments like these. We allowed room for them and encouraged them. No stress, no rush, take your time, you can even open up your Bible if you want. And when she opened up to John 4, this moment happened. The woman at the well, a woman who is lost and finds hope in Jesus in a moment, a woman who Stephanie relates to when thinking of her redemption story. And the emotion overflowed.

If you want to imprint feelings in a photo like an emotional time capsule, learn to listen. If you want to shoot every wedding as if you’re seeing the day through your bride or groom’s eyes, learn to listen.

Your couples will thank you.

02/06/2021

More neon signs and bubble exits please ✨ thanks!

Really though, we’ve been looking forward to this wedding for well over a year, and it blew past every expectation we had. The details. The emotions. The first look they shared 😭 (that we’ll show later… 😎) We can’t even begin to explain how thankful we are to have been just a small part of this wedding.

Also we got to work with some of the greatest vendors and friends:
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19/05/2021

Matt and I have this uncomfortable running joke that we’re sort of ashamed of and proud of at the same time.

And this is it: Almost all of our friends were once our couples, which means it seems like we’re friends with people only if they’ve paid us money.

OKAY we know that sounds so bad hahaha. We know. But it’s honestly a huge testimony of who we are and what we do.

We get emotionally invested in our couples. And we don’t mean surface level, “Oh yeah, how’s your job been? Cool. Your wedding is going to be so emotional and special. Can’t wait!” We go way deeper than that.

We often hear from new couples, “I was watching this film of a couple I don’t even know, but I feel like I was AT the wedding, like I have known this couple all my life.”

That doesn’t happen by chance. That happens from the intentional relationship we build.

We know their desires. We know their fears. We know what they’re most looking forward to, what they love about each other, what makes them anxious, how they interact, what makes them laugh, what they hope to experience, what brings them to tears, what triggers their emotions. That’s not surface level.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if YOU could create your perfect film and take the perfect photos? That’s pretty much what happens. We’ll be so clearly on the same wave length with your thoughts and desires that we’re able to shoot the whole wedding as if YOU were shooting the wedding.

It’s impossible to get to that level of understanding with a couple… and then NOT be best friends after.

So when we joke that all of our friends at one point paid us for friendship, we see it as proof that we’re doing things right.

Also we’re always looking for more friends and we promise you won’t need to pay us to make it happen 😂

13/05/2021

After 5 years of shooting weddings, it’s important to ask ourselves what keeps us going.

If you’ve been a photo or video person for a while, it’s easy to relate to this.

“Once I get this couple…”
“Once I make $X…”
“Once I travel to X, then I’ve officially ‘made it’ as a photographer.”

Not long into our business, we booked a mountaintop wedding in Alaska. And we had mixed emotions.

Obviously we were stoked! But a new question in our minds started to grow, and continued to grow for a few years: What now?

We’ve had to ask ourselves that question often. And how you answer it has the hugest impact on your life and whether or not you enjoy it.

Our What Now? has nothing to do with a specific location. It has nothing to do with a venue. Definitely not “if we only booked a wedding HERE” or “If I can just book this really cool couple” or “Once we make THIS MUCH money” or “This wedding will open up so many opportunities for me.”

Our What Now? is this: What stories matter to us? What stories are so heavy that we feel the emotional weight on our shoulders the entire wedding day?

It’s never a location. It’s never a venue. It’s never reaching some arbitrary booking goal.

It’s the couples, their stories, and the deep emotional connections they bring with them.

Those are the weddings we dream of. Those are the inquiries we drool over. Those are our new “Alaska Mountaintop Dream Weddings,” the What Now? that keeps us going.

11/05/2021

If I could go anywhere right now, it’d be right here.

I honestly don’t remember where exactly this was taken, but I do remember we were 3 hours away from any city in any direction.

It was too dark to even see our own hands in front of us. No lights anywhere. No streetlights. No other cars passing by. Just us and the stars.

Realistically, we shouldn’t have even stopped. We had just finished a wedding around 8:00pm and had a 3 hour drive back to our hotel with our flight home leaving at 5:00 that morning. We were exhausted, but I think neither of us wanted to be the one to kill the vibe.

We pulled off, and taking that first look up is something I’ll never forget. The vastness of the sky. Stars in every direction. We stared up for so long that our necks started to hurt.

This moment is special because it was just us. It was our experience, and it was an experience we got to go through together, just us.

Those are the moments I remember most. I hardly remember things when I’m around other people. Every memory blends together. But when I’m with only her, everything is different. I can push past how painfully exhausted I am to live out an experience like this that neither of us will probably ever have the opportunity to have again.

I’m so thankful for this. And yeah, getting 34 minutes of sleep that night before having to hop on a plane wasn’t the greatest. But I would give it all up again to have one more minute here with her, holding hands and staring at the stars together.

29/04/2021

Counting down the days until the bridge is finally fixed so driving to Fort Pickens for sessions goes from 3856 hours to just 15 minutes. 🙃😅

28/04/2021

This moment wasn’t intentional, but Trevor and Mallori just fit together so perfectly. And I realize it’s such a beautiful representation of their marriage. Two people fitting so perfectly together to become one.

That goes for all of our couples. They literally had 7 billion people to choose from, and yet we can’t imagine them with anyone else.

Like, how the heck do all of our couples get so lucky?

These physical representations of oneness are just outward expressions of how well they fit together as a married couple.

Our favorite part of photographing every couple is finding the different ways we can show connection and oneness through our photos and films.

27/04/2021

The way that their faces look in these photos, those "hopelessly in love and just gushing over one another" looks, those looks are there because they broke the "rules."

They took their wedding from traditional, hundreds of guests, lots of food, and giant celebration, and they went with small, intimate, and unique. They weren't worried about how long their guests were waiting for them while they took photos. They weren't stressing about the ceremony time or feeling antsy about whether or not things were running late.

They were simply exchanging vows, holding each other, and allowing themselves to soak in the moments that matter most.

26/04/2021

“We want our ceremony to be a public expression of our faith where everyone will understand what God has done in our lives and how God brought us together.”

That sentence is in our notes from our first meeting with Hale and Stephanie back in November.

These two got married over the weekend, and I’m 100% certain their goal was more than accomplished.

22/04/2021

One of my favorite parts of photographing couples is exploring how they embrace each other. No couple does it the same. I don't have specific poses to check off of a list for every session. I'm not putting your affection in a box.

Instead, I'll guide you through every moment and create the space for you two to celebrate each other and be who you are, with no worries of looking or feeling awkward or uncomfortable.

Be yourselves, and I’ll take care of the rest.

21/04/2021

✨Friendly Reminder✨ that we're booking 2022 weddings right now!

We're taking only 17 more weddings in 2022. ...Aaaaand so far, we have 4 calls scheduled with couples in the next week.

So if you've been meaning to contact us,

DO IT 🚨TONIGHT🚨 so I can send you a "HECK YEAH WE'RE AVAILABLE" email. 🎉

13/04/2021

The face Kevin makes when he finds out we planned 5 more sunrise hikes this trip!

"WHO EVEN LIKES BEING SURROUNDED BY A BUNCH OF ROCKS?!" *At the Grand Canyon*
"The trails by our house are cooler." *Looking at Horseshoe Bend*
"Give me the keys. I'm driving home." *We're 1000 miles from home. And he's 9.*

Love you, Kev. One day you'll be so thankful we took you on insane hikes through the most beautiful locations in our country.

Until then, stay salty. Your "Kevin" quotes are priceless.

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