10/06/2025
This past August marked 10 years since I photographed my very first wedding. 🥹
Back then I’d say “Oh, it’s just a little hobby to pass the time.” Mainly because I didn’t really know what a career in photography could look like. Because I believed, like many, “you can’t make a living doing that.”
Within just two years of that first wedding, I quit my job and took the leap to pursue this “little hobby” full time. The inquiries, the bookings, the referrals, it all just kept coming, and suddenly this side thing became a full time business.
Then in 2018, life shifted. My husband’s younger brother unexpectedly passed away. That same month, we got pregnant with our first. I carried our baby to term, a little boy, and when I was in labor we heard the devastating news that he no longer had a heartbeat. We lost him at birth. Then six weeks later, my own little brother passed away. 💔 It was a year that shook me, in every way you could ever imagine.
Looking back, photography became a form of therapy for me. It gave me purpose and something to hold onto when everything else felt like it was falling apart. I filled my calendar with every date I could, pouring myself into work. Trying to forget my currently reality.
By 2022, though, I hit burnout. I realized I couldn’t keep running at that pace and still show up for my family, my clients, or myself. That year, I cut my bookings in half. It completely changed the way I approached my business.
When I look back at the last ten years, I see pieces of myself in my images. Capturing the emotion, connection, and quiet in between moments. I’ve learned that where there is grief, there is also love, and maybe that’s why I’m so drawn to photographing weddings. One day, these photographs will become your family heirlooms and one of your most priced possessions. The tangible proof of the people and love that shaped your story. The story that my couples have trusted me to capture. And I am forever grateful to be a little piece in there.
Thank you for the last ten years. I never imagined where that camera would have taken me 🥹🥹
