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Stony Creek Metropark Engagement Session provided by top-rated Metro Detroit Engagement and Wedding Photographer, Kari Dawson. Sarah and Criag’s Stony Creek Metropark Engagement Session fell on a perfect fall afternoon full of glowy light and colorful trees. We enjoyed the perfect sunset while exploring the park and getting to know each other. Truth: Engagement Sessions […]

Fall Engagement Session at Paint Creek Cider Mill provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Lake Orion Engagement and Wedding Photographer. Heather and Michael’s fall engagement session at Paint Creek Cider Miller is one of my favorites from this season. Michael and Heather chose to incorporate Michael’s classic pickup truck into their session. We got started with […]

Fall Stony Creek Metro Park Engagement provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Metro Detroit Engagement and Wedding Photographer. Megan and Erik met through mutual friends at a fourth of July party. Their love eventually led to a proposal in Traverse City. I might be partial as a Michigander but I love our Michigan beach towns. I […]

Fall Engagement in the park provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Metro Detroit engagement and wedding photographer. Fresh off a trip to Utah together Kim and Dan shared a date night exploring some of Downtown Detroit’s best. Dinner at Wright & Co and cocktails at Sugar House – can’t go wrong there! At home later, Dan […]

Lake House Engagement Session in Goodrich Michigan by Kari Dawson Photography

Lake house engagement session in Goodrich Michigan provided by Kari Dawson, top rated Michigan wedding photographer. Their first date left them both smitten kittens that couldn’t share a second date for weeks! In the meantime, Sarah dropped her phone in a lake and thought that was the last she’d hear of Bob. But, they did […]

Downtown Detroit summer engagement provided by Kari Dawson and her team. Tonisha and Adam were complete naturals and it was so fun for me personally to witness their connection and hear their love story. Tonisha has been a great friend of my niece for years; watching her become a young woman and find her life […]

Michigan State University Summer Engagement session provided by Kari Dawson. If you have been reading for a while, you have heard me talk about the start of my relationship with my own husband, Todd at the ripe old age of fifteen. We worked together at a chicken joint. While my advances were quite obvious to […]

Detroit Foundation Hotel engagement session in Downtown Detroit, Michigan provided by Kari Dawson – top rated Detroit engagement and wedding photographer. You guuuuuys! Let me tell you how OBSESSED I am over the Detroit Foundation Hotel and their restaurant the Apparatus Room. Their design team nailed it! And Doug and Angela looked SO good in […]

Stony Creek winter engagement session in Shelby Township, Michigan provided by Kari Dawson, top rated Metro Detroit wedding and engagement photographer. After meeting in the cafeteria at Michigan State (go green!) Julie and Mitchell have been inseparable ever since. During the holiday season Mitchell got Julie to his mom’s house under the pretense of her […]