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5 Tips for Your Wedding Reception

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Tips for Brides

In addition to all the decisions you’re making on your decor, we want to help you think through the flow of the night. Once you have your plan in place, your vendors should take care of making sure everything stays on schedule so that you can relax and enjoy your night. Your reception should be […]

Minneapolis & St. Paul
Favorite Engagement Session Locations

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Tips for Brides

Congratulations on your engagement!! Let’s celebrate it! Engagement sessions are one of our favorite parts of the whole wedding planning experience. Not only do you get beautiful memories from this short and sweet season of life, but you also get a chance to see how your photographer works behind the lens. You’ll become familiar with […]

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5 Photo Gift Ideas for Mom & Dad

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Tips for Brides

Whether a birthday, holiday, Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day is in sight, you can always melt a parent’s heart with pictures. We included a list below of great gift ideas to give your parents after your wedding or portrait session to fill the walls of their home. There are some affiliate links in there too […]

6 Advent Wreath Ideas for Catholic Couples and Newlyweds

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Faith

Advent is a fun season for couples. When we were dating, the focus was on sharing the traditions of our families with one another. Once we were married, the realization set in that we now had the opportunity to create traditions of our own! It was thrilling. It is easy for December to fly by […]

Catholic Wedding Vendors in the Twin Cities

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Tips for Brides

Do you have a fancy new title of fiancée ringing in your ears? Speaking of rings, isn’t that engagement ring sparkle distracting in the best possible way?! But after the confetti comes a litany of tasks to plan your actual wedding. When couples start creating their budget and figuring out what’s most important to them, […]

Professional Headshot for Catholic Women’s Speaker

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Portraits

Emily has it on her heart to empower women to live their lives full of virtue. She hired us for some headshots and images that she can use with her upcoming website launch to showcase her work as a Catholic women’s speaker based out Minneapolis, MN. We’ve known Emily since college through the Catholic Studies […]

7 Ways to Prepare The Week of Your Wedding

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Tips for Brides

The date is set, venue booked, major vendors hired. As the wedding date approaches, it starts to be less about big decisions and more about small logistics that bring your vision together. Below are seven ways that prepare you for a great photo experience and that will minimize stress. Share Picture List with Family Send […]

Sammy & Tony
Fall Catholic Wedding & Rustic Reception at Bruentrup Farm

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Wedding

These high school sweethearts officially tied the knot this weekend!! Their love story was 10 years in the making and has stood the test of time, long distance, and even a pandemic. We loved getting to know more about them during their engagement session last winter and celebrating their wedding day this fall. Sammy and […]

8 Ways to Use Your Engagement Photos

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Tips for Brides

He popped the question, you picked your date, started booking your vendors, and now are scheduling your engagement session! What time of year you decide to have your session depends on how you are going to use the images afterwards. Whether they are going to be used as save the dates or simply to get […]

Tyler & Anna Marie
Our Lady of Lourdes Engagement Session

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Engagement

Tyler and Anna Marie chose to do their engagement session in NE Minneapolis with a special stop at the Marian grotto outside of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. It always inspires us when couples incorporate elements of their faith into the engagement session.

Riley & Becca
Navy & Rosewood Wedding at Holy Family Catholic Church

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Wedding

Riley and Becca got engaged this spring during the pandemic. That in and of itself is a sign of hope for many couples who wonder how a wedding will work with so many restrictions. We can tell you firsthand how beautiful, joyful, and full of life these celebrations are! These two held back a lot […]

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Oliver & Mary
Cabernet & Navy Catholic Wedding at Church of St. Mark

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Wedding

Two years ago, Oliver was the best man when we photographed Joe & Theresa’s wedding. Now the roles were switched, and it was Oliver’s turn to be standing at the altar as the groom! We’ve loved getting to know Oliver & Mary throughout this whole journey to becoming husband and wife! Their relationship story is […]

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