Spring has sprung, but I’m just getting around to sharing these beautiful wintery engagement photos

On an extremely cold spring day Lauren + Nick got married at the Hawthorne House.

The cold kept no one from having a fantastically rad time. Here’s their story…

I love when I show up at sessions and the first thing I hear is, “We’re so awkward in front of the camera.”

I take it as a personal challenge to show them what they might think is awkward is actually love. Belly laughs, crinkly noses, hand holding, inappropriate Cards Against Humanity jokes. All real love. Jess + Jeff are awesome.

Side note: I’ve known Jeff since 3rd grade. Crazy, right? It makes me happy to see him with such a lovely lady to spend his life with.

Jenna + Doyle celebrated their love with friends and family at the beautiful Cider Gallery in Lawrence, KS.

It was such a joyful occasion, full of love and laughter and families coming together to celebrate to awesome people’s love…

Sometimes, I get the chance to photograph two people that are so in love that I’m reminded of WHY I do this in the first place.

It’s refreshing to see a couple who just GET IT.

Jennie + Adam are going to change the world with their love story, I fully believe it. You can see it in how they interact, you hear it in their laughter, and some of the conversations we had over the course of an hour and a half are words I’ll never forget.

I’m so grateful that I had the chance to spend some time with them and be able to walk away wanting to love the people in my life even more…and then to be able to share some images of how their love looks to the rest of us…and they’ll have those doorways back to this season of their life, forever.

Photography matters. Documenting love matters.