Possibly yes. I intentionally keep some availability open for last-minute bookings, elopements, proposals, and couples who just didn't get around to booking yet. I'm based in Minneapolis and available throughout the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. Send me your date and I'll tell you immediately whether I'm free.

A proposal session is when I'm secretly present to capture the moment someone proposes. You coordinate with me in advance, your partner has no idea I'm there, and I document the whole thing candidly. It's one of my favorite things to shoot honestly, pure unperformed emotion.

An engagement session happens after, when you're both in on it. It's a relaxed hour or two where we just hang out somewhere beautiful and I take your picture. No pressure, no formal posing, just getting comfortable in front of a camera together. Couples who do an engagement session before their wedding almost always feel more relaxed on the actual day because we've already figured out how to work together.

A couples session is the same thing without the wedding context. Anniversary, valentines day, or just because you want some nice photos together.

It's simpler than it feels. You reach out with your date, venue, and a rough idea of what you're looking for. We have a quick conversation, either by phone, video, or honestly just messaging if you prefer, to make sure we're a good fit. If everything feels right, I send you a contract and collect a deposit to hold your date. That's it. You don't need to have every detail figured out to start the conversation, most couples don't.

You can reach me anytime via my contact page, Instagram, phone, or email. I aim to respond within 24 hours.

Honestly? Because I'm going to make you feel like yourself, not like you're performing for a camera. I have a fine art background which means I think about light, composition, and emotion differently than someone who learned photography through weddings alone. And I spent two years teaching art and special education, which taught me how to make anyone feel genuinely comfortable and seen. My couples get both the intentional, editorial portraits and the honest documentary moments, and the two feel like they belong together because they're both just about paying attention to real things.

Because what you're paying for isn't just the hours I'm there. It's years of learning how to find the right light in a dark reception hall, how to get your nervous dad to actually smile, how to be invisible when the moment calls for it and present when it doesn't. It's the hours of culling and editing after the wedding so every image in your gallery earns its place. It's the equipment, the backup equipment, the insurance, the contracts. And it's the fact that your wedding only happens once. The photographer is one of the only vendors whose work you'll still be looking at in thirty years. That's what the price reflects.