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Brad & Jen Photography

husband + wife. photographer + photographer. documenting stories of people who love madly, live freely, take risks, and are hungry for adventure!

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08/18/2026

Stepping into 30A is like living inside the best part of a memory - walking pristine beaches, palm lined cobblestone streets, the vacation homes named Walker on Water, Days Like These, and Meet Me Here …

There are families abound, porches packed with guests and fresh seafood and good music…

To call it a “beach town” doesn’t really capture what makes this place so magnetic.

While the gulf constantly beckons another beach day… what seems to make the biggest impact is how much this place invites presence.

It’s pure recreation.
Memory making.
Slow dinners.
Mornings runs.
Coffee with neighbors.
Endless blue skys.
Pristine landscaping.

It’s almost… not real. But what happens here is. Thousands of families paticipating in a collective exhale. Bonding. Clinking their glasses. And remembering most of all, what is most important in life - time with one another.

Madison & Daniel, thank you for letting us witness your little piece of this place. Another porch full of people. Another table gathered around. Another family with a reason to come back here and remember exactly how it all began.

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07/31/2026

Swapped Northern Michigan for the PNW this summer.

Bricked our phones, read our books, packed a ton of film (for the kids too), explored tide pools, caught crabs, ate fresh baguettes, sipped french w**e, and did our best to rest the RPMs of our hearts.

Truthfully it’s hard to not be on the move a lot when we travel… so renting one house, on the ocean, and staying put was a welcomed gift of slow pace and soul rest. Highly recommend.

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07/27/2026

One of the first questions we ask every couple is, “What matters most to you about your wedding day?” 
Almost every answer comes back to the same thing - the people.
 Friends flying in from across the country. Parents meeting the college crew for the first time. Cousins who haven’t seen each other in years. Childhood friends, work friends, old families, new families. All in one place. 
You don’t get to your wedding day without your people.
 They were there long before the wedding, and they’ll be there long after it. They’re just as much a part of the story. 
Some of our favorite photographs aren’t just of the couple. They’re of the bridesmaid who’s been waiting years for this moment. The friend who can’t stop crying during the vows. The groomsmen laughing over an inside joke that’s survived a decade. The same ridiculous wig that somehow keeps making an appearance at every wedding.
 Years from now, those photographs become time capsules.
 They remind you who was there. How young everyone looked. The friendships that shaped your life. The people who celebrated you before careers changed, kids arrived, and life pulled everyone in different directions.
 A wedding is one of the few moments in life where everyone pauses to say, “We’re here. We love you. We’re with you.”
 That’s why our cameras are always pointed in more than one direction.
 One toward the two people getting married. The other toward the people who helped them get there.

07/21/2026

Summer 2020. Lauren emailed us... 
“While 2020 has not been what we expected, the word we’ve placed on our marriage is momentum. Good, bad, ugly, we’ve vowed that it would propel us toward betterment and greatness together.

The advice from a friend was, ‘get married - and let the rest of your life be a celebration.’ So that’s what we’re doing.”

So Colleen opened Alabaster
Lauren & Shaun invited her closest friends
Jeff officiated
Cheryl & Adam brought their voices and a guitar
Family FaceTimed in from across the country
Simoni prepared the meal

And every single person there made a toast to two people who have woven so much joy and creatiity into the lives they have touched.

A gift to look back on this one - the first wedding we documented all on film. Something we’ll forever be indebted to - remembering this wedding as the one that changed everything about our creative process.

06/02/2026

Joy abounds with the Larriviere’s! 🥂

Planner: Susan Hart
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05/29/2026

We’ve known Mary for a long time.

Back when Nashville still felt like Nashville. When her studio was still above Sam & Zoe’s and our favorite burrito spot.

When you’ve known someone across that many years, you don’t just know who they are. You get to witness the different versions and seasons of their lives.

I think that’s what made this weekend feel so special. Because this wasn’t simply the story of Mary and James finding each other. It was the story of finding each other, losing each other, missing each other, waiting for each other, and somehow finding each other again.

A story with detours and heartache and longing and bad timing. A story that makes no sense while you’re in it, but somehow becomes so obvious when you finally reach the other side.

We heard stories of fate.
Of friendship…and when it turned into something more.
Of James waiting for Mary’s call and the day it finally came through.

And maybe one of our favorite details was hearing about …. who knew before they did. Who, when James’ phone lit up with “Mary Hooper”, ran into another room and immediately started writing a song (last slide) because he was convinced these two would end up together.

I think when most of us picture weddings, we often imagine a straight line.

Meet. Fall in love. Get married.

But Mary & James took the scenic route and brought us along to see the beauty of those winding roads, unexpected turns, and stories we never could have written.

And standing there with their people, watching them finally arrive at this moment, it was hard not to feel grateful for every mile that came before it.

Thank you to , , and for helping create so much beauty around this rainy fall day, and for second shooting and always being such an example of joy and selflessness 💛

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04/24/2026

Natalie sat in the chair after her Mom gently slipped on her wedding shoes.

We were about to leave for their first look when I asked her a simple question, something small in passing, and she turned toward her mom, then looked back out the window as her eyes filled with tears (slide 6).

“Damnit Brad… I’m just so excited to see him.” ❤️

And just like that, I watched Natalie’s breath calm. She let herself feel something that so many people just rush to get to.

We love these moments with our couples. These seemingly small unscripted pauses to feel the weight of their day.

There’s so much of a wedding day built around what’s next. The ceremony is coming. The first look is coming. The party, the people, all of it.  And yet sometimes I think the richest part of the day is realizing… you’re already in it. It’s already here!  And when you let yourself feel the weight of that while it’s happening…the gratitude, the wonder, the anticipation…it changes the experience of the day itself.

We’ve come to believe presence works this way. It deepens the experience first, and the photographs second. Not the other way around.

So we taxi’d to Central Park, where she and Nick chose a spot on their favorite lawn. Through shared text threads we mapped the light, landed on a perfect October afternoon, set out folding chairs, gathered their closest people, and closed the night with sushi and espresso martinis at 🍣

Which felt exactly right.

Because that’s what this day keeps reminding me of.

How much life is missed when we live too far ahead of ourselves. How much beauty hides inside the pause. How often the main thing is already the main thing… if we’re awake enough to notice it.

04/02/2026

Nearly 5000 miles from home, in the hills of Tuscany, Sara & Taylor invited their closest friends into a week that felt equal parts vacation and celebration - endless Chianti, pizza in the making, spritzes by the pool, and a stop at Leonardo’s for Italian loafers.

All of it building toward the moment they said “I do.” A joy to relive, again and again.

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01/21/2026

01/08/2026

This post isn’t about “going luxury.”
It’s about applying the right strategy at the right moment so you can grow faster, with more confidence, and without burning yourself the F out.

If you feel capable, steady, and hungry for more…

THIS is how you move forward without stepping so far ahead that you lose your footing 👆

Read through slowly. There’s a lot here that can change how you grow.

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