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Straits Chapel & Blackwolf Run Wedding | Lauren & Lawson — Kohler, WI

Some rooms ask to be photographed quietly. Straits Chapel is one of them — all white, all glass, the lake admitted through the windows. Lauren and Lawson married there on a clear June afternoon, with her father at the front to marry them, then carried the day west to the river at Blackwolf Run. Of […]

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The Delafield Hotel: A Wedding Photographer’s Guide to Wisconsin’s Best Boutique Venue

There’s a moment that happens at The Delafield Hotel that I’ve watched play out at every wedding I’ve photographed there. Guests arrive from Milwaukee or Madison — many of them expecting the standard Waukesha County hotel experience — step through the heavy oak doors into that cherry wood lobby, and stop. Something in the scale […]

Wedding couple walking hand in hand in a scenic outdoor setting during fall.

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Why Faith Matters to Me as a Wisconsin Wedding Photographer

The Part of Our Work We Rarely Talk About — But Shapes Everything There’s something we don’t often lead with. In an industry that talks a lot about cameras, editing styles, and accolades, it’s easy to focus on what’s visible. And while those things matter—we’ve spent 15 years refining them—there’s something deeper that quietly shapes […]

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