I am a St. Louis Wedding Photographer and I want to provide my clients with not only the highest quality of engagement and wedding photography, but also an amazing experience! Part of that experience is their very own wedding website. The custom wedding website site provides an amazing way for couples to keep their friends and family […]

Allison + Chad Gardens at SIUE Edwardsville | Engagement Session St Louis Wedding Photography | Dustin + Amanda Turner Allison and Chad are high school sweet hearts that have been together ever since. Chad, a year older than Allison, would see her in the hallways. Then they found themselves as friends of friends, easily leading […]

My baby robin. I think I’ll name him, Grumpy. A baby robin has been around our house for the past week or so. We got home from an out-of-town trip on a cool beautiful evening, brought in our luggage and then I grabbed the watering can to give a drink to the flowers and vegetable garden. […]

“Will you marry me?”  This question ushers in a time full of happiness, excitement, and anticipation. It is a special time that you will reflect back on even years and decades later, after your wedding day. An engagement session documents this period, the beginning steps toward your becoming husband & wife. They are your first […]

After five years together, I find it fascinating how my husband and I have become more alike or perhaps, have found more ways we are alike. Our sense of humor, our taste in food, and even how we can observe situations and know what the other is thinking, sometimes with less than a glance. Yet, […]

Ed and Sylvia have been married for forty years! When Ed + Sylvia’s granddaughter Maya approached me about taking some family pictures as a 40th anniversary present, I was very excited! How sweet of her! And then I thought, wow, 40 years! And what a beautiful family, with an addition on its way! Maya put […]

After taking Ben and Debbie’s engagement pictures on what seemed to be the only cold day we had this winter, I wondered what type of weather we would have for their wedding. One week prior, we had record-breaking heat. Would it be blisteringly hot? Would we have snow? Would it rain skittles? Yet, the day of, as […]

Wonderful Spring. The first sprigs of greenery after a long cold winter, the first smell of barbecue in the neighborhood, and fresh flowers straight from the yard. Even though we had a relatively mild winter this past year, I’m still giddy for spring. The vibrantly alive color combinations a counterpoint to mild spring breezes…invigorating. My […]

It was cold. Very, very cold. Yet, Ben and Debbie hardly seemed to notice. They probably did notice the icy wind carving a frigid edge through the air, but they were more focused on each other. Back at the very spot where Ben had gotten down on one knee and asked Debbie to be his […]