To me, it's not just about your day. It's not about whether or not you elope, have an intimate ceremony, or choose to have the best of both worlds with a micro wedding. To me, it's about you.
Which is why I am the photographer who cares about knowing you in the process. The photographer who answers your text messages when you are overwhelmed with planning, helps you pick your outfit for your engagement session, listens to you gush about how freakin excited you are to marry the love of your life. The photographer who is in your freakin corner to hype you up every single step of the way. More than just a photographer. A friend.
From planning calls about timelines, to questionnaires about your vision for your day, to location scouting for your dream spot for reading your vows- I'm here to serve and support you. Dream with you. Cheer for you. And to make sure you not only soak up every moment of your perfect day, but that you have a gallery of images that let you go back and feel it, for the rest of your lives.
Because it's about more than just pretty pictures of you in your dress or of pretty flowers that don't last. It's about taking a moment in time, and giving it back to you in images you'll cherish forever. Images that feel like you. Images that mirror all the silly, quirky inside jokes between you and your love. Images that reflect the quiet, intimate moments that are just for the two of you.
Images that bring the narrative, your relationship's narrative, to life.
This is the secret sauce to those magical images like you melting in your honey's arms or the two of you nuzzled up together, giggling and kissing like no one is watching.
Because let's be honest... if you want those pictures that look natural, authentic, and so totally you, then you need to feel natural, authentic, and so totally you!
And that doesn't just happen by hopping on one consult call and then showing up with a camera on your day. That happens when we get to build genuine relationship.
My heart is to really know you and your relationship. So that we can get those intimate moments of you and your groom writing your vows the morning of your elopement, and the genuine laughter of your closest friends and family sitting around one table at your micro wedding. And yes, those dreamy photos of just you and your groom, after finally saying "I do" and officially becoming husband and wife.
I've always had this heart for storytelling. From being a little girl playing with Barbies and putting on dramatic plays for my parents, to determining that I was going to be a child author in the third grade, all the way to my attempted vlog channel on Youtube in college.
Why does that matter for you on your wedding day? Because your wedding day is just that: a story. And my promise is to really see those little details like your bridesmaids giggling over stories from college while getting ready. And your grandparents holding hands while they admire young love during your ceremony. My promise to you is to notice, to document, to tell your story, one frame at a time.
Clearly, a few things have changed since I was 6 years old aspiring to be a modern day Barbie Shakespeare, but the heart of the thing is and has always been the same: to tell the story, to evoke emotion, to see and honor human connection.
Let's be honest... we all dream of our wedding day, even if you are choosing the non traditional route of eloping or having an intimate ceremony with only your closest people.
But what I promise is, as fast as the day comes- you blink and it's over. The dress gets worn, the flowers die, and real life starts again.
Yes, you will always remember that day, but the truth is- when the flowers die and the dress goes in the closet, your images are the things that take your most intimate, sacred moments, and freeze them in time for you to savor forever.
I want your day to be as perfect as you've always dreamt. And I want your gallery of images to creatively tell your story in an authentic, beautiful way that you'll treasure for the rest of your lives.
Because I think it's only fair that you know a few of the things that make me, me.
I'm a sucker for a romcom (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, anyone?!), a Survivor addict, and come November, being a mom is going to be my whole personality.
I'm an absolute hopeless romantic, so it's no shock that I ended up in a profession literally centered around love, and being the extroverted hype gal that I am, it's only fitting that all my clients end up being my favorite humans ;)
But at the end of the day, my favorite thing- in life and my job- is just to really know people. I'm a mile deep kinda lover, and that bleeds into every single area of my life, including photography. To truly know and tell each couple's unique, one of a kind love story is my favorite thing in the whole world, and I cannot freakin wait to hear yours ;)
"It was an absolute dream to work with Maggie! We chose Maggie based off of a referral from a friend and she did NOT DISAPPOINT!! I would 1000% recommend Maggie to anyone I know who needs a professional photographer! AMAZING AMAZING EXPERIENCE!"
Having Maggie as my photographer was such a joy! You get the great experience of a fun photographer mixed with great photos that will showcase you on your big day. Maggie made me feel so beautiful and excited!"
"Seriously over here crying! Thank you so much...I will treasure these forever!"
"We are in love!!! They are all so beyond perfect.Thank you, Maggie. It has been so easy to work with you from beginning to end!"
A wedding day that feels true to you.
Images that make you feel that day, for the rest of your lives.