“We want to look back on our wedding and see how it made us all feel more alive.”

“My idea was to find a photographer who I trusted to compose beautiful images of something already happening versus making that thing happen.”

“I want each photo to be a genuine memory. I don’t want to pull our people out of the moment to fake laughter for a photo opp.”

“We just want to live in the moment and enjoy our day to the fullest without having to worry about getting the ‘right’ photo.”

“We really want the documentation to feel real and raw, freeing us from a traditional and choreographed process and allowing us to be truly in the moment.”

“There’s so much cut and paste at weddings. You could take out the couple and put in literally anyone else and the picture would look the same. I knew I didn’t want that. I wanted it to be unique to us.”

“You have to be willing to show your actual self and deal with the parts that you like and the parts that you don’t. I thought it was kind of weird to think about a wedding that hid certain parts of myself. It just wouldn’t feel like our wedding.”

“I think photos evoke feelings of the moment more than anything else. When I look at a photo, I’m brought back to that moment and how I felt.”

“I’ve been in weddings with a very scheduled set-list of photos. That works great for some, but for me that would have felt like too much pressure and I wouldn’t have shown up as my whole self.”

“So many people are play-acting their own weddings. They’re cosplaying what a bride is supposed to do, but many of us are just not good actors.”

“Since we’re eschewing many of the typical wedding conventions, we’ll treasure all the spontaneous moments captured that more genuinely define the day.”

“Performing is exhausting. I didn’t want that for the day.”

“We hope to create our own rituals in this wedding to celebrate the love we’ve built and to center a heartfelt connection between our loved ones.”

“If I looked at two different weddings and saw the same shots, I didn’t even look further. Even the idea that someone would say, 'I want to do that picture,’ and the photographer would say, ‘okay, put it on the list–’ that was a deal breaker for me.”

“We want to feel relaxed, present and joyful.”

“We’re trying to stay rooted in the fact that our wedding is a day to celebrate that we’ve found one another and not a show.”

“We’re not looking to spend the day chasing glamour shots.”

“When we talked with other photographers there was a lot of discussion around how we were curating ourselves, but I wasn’t trying to show up in that way.”

“I’ve been in enough weddings to watch people fake putting on the dress, redo putting on a piece of jewelry or reread a card for a photo and I hate the performance of it all.”

“The idea of having to ‘perform bride’ just felt really suffocating to me.”

“We’re really interested in having a day where the photography feels additive and like it’s capturing what’s already there—not something separate or curated for another audience.”

“The value we hold most closely is genuine, felt presence.”

“We want to remember the preciousness of this time—our people and ourselves—just as we are. Not posed or overly curated, but gently witnessed.”

“We think photos are all about feelings and not just aesthetics.”

“It was more about having a lot of fun versus it being a show.”

“We want to be fully present in what’s happening, not pulled away or asked to perform.”

“It’s not just about joy. There are a lot of other emotions out there. Just like you don’t want a meal of just sweet things, I think an album of everything that comes out of a person’s aura when they’re emoting. I think that’s also really important.”

“One of the things that was really important to us was a quality of alive-ness. We wanted that quality of being alive to really shine through.”

“I was really determined to go into this in a way that felt less scripted, more real and more free-flowing.”

“She saw your page and said, ‘hey, I want you to look at this.’ And I said, ‘yeah, but it doesn’t look like wedding photography.’ And she said, ‘right, but think about it.’”

“We’re very much guided by the real emotion of the day, not a staged or overly curated version.”

“When I looked at other people’s wedding photos, I could almost start predicting, ‘okay, it’s going to be this photo, and then this photo.’ I had no sense of the couple or the event.”

“There’s an intensity of emotion that makes moments feel real and draws you in. I’d love to have that rather than the ‘perfect’ shot.”