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Alex + Linda's spring wedding at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan brought together warm sophisticated and intentional details with a layered pastel color palette that felt as much about family as it did about the two of them.

Spring Henry Ford Museum Wedding Overflowing with Love

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Bianca and Spencer's fall wedding at Planterra Conservatory in Bloomfield Hills was floral, feminine, and rooted in something deeper than aesthetics.

Timeless Romance in Full Bloom at Planterra 

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This downtown Detroit engagement session is provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Detroit engagement and wedding photographer. I met Annie and Alex for the first time in person at their engagement session. Since I believe that you can never be too dressed up for your engagement photos, I was pumped to see Annie headed toward me […]

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While I played in the mud, clearing flower beds, Audra and James were getting ready for their Engagement Session in Detroit. We had such a gorgeous morning and early afternoon that I didn’t even check the weather before I headed to Detroit. What I expected to be a beautiful sunny session turned into rainy engagement […]

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Wow was it cold when we shot Andrea + Chris’s engagement session in Detroit. The wind was whipping off the Detroit River and our eyes were watering. But I kind of love it and these two were total troopers and we forged through it. We were all a bit relieved to find the Conservatory on […]

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Aleesa is this tiny human with hair that makes me jealous. Her freckles make her look like she is kissed daily by the sun. And I love her silly disposition that makes being with her just easy. Adam stands two heads above Aleesa. But, I personally love being vertically challenged. I loved watching them banter […]


You will feel calm on one of the most overwhelming days of your life. You will forget the camera was there. You will find yourself holding photographs of moments you were not fully aware were happening when they did.

You will feel like they belong there. Not as vendors. As people who already understood what the day meant before they ever walked through the door.

A mother and daughter who show up to your wedding day as two leads with one vision.

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