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Emma and Matt's fall wedding at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, Michigan brought together Texas warmth and Michigan roots in a celebration that felt as much about family as it did about the two of them.
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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.
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Cranberry and Navy Fall Birmingham Community House Wedding in Birmingham, Michigan provided by Kari Dawson a top-rated Birmingham Wedding Photographer. the planning… A few things immediately connected me to Kristen and Brett when we first started chatting about their Birmingham Community House Wedding. First, I simply adore the Community House! Brett found me; I love […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Nixon Farms rustic barn wedding in Dexter, Michigan provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Ann Arbor wedding photographer, Kari Dawson and her team. How they met… Aaron and Laurel both grew up in the Ann Arbor area and found themselves transplanted to Austin, Texas. Neither of them knew the other growing up in Michigan. It took […]
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Detroit Colony Club black tie wedding in Detroit, Michigan provided by Kari Dawson, top rated Detroit engagement and wedding photographer, and her team. Their story… About oooohhhh, 14 years ago, in the seventh grade, Chase met Alexi. Fast forward six or seven years and after years of being close friends, Alexi shared her first kiss […]
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Royal Park Hotel summer black tie wedding provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Metro Detroit wedding photographer, and her team. What a stunning wedding day full of joy and laughter and blush pink. What more could a gal ask for? Chrissy and Gino’s story is almost ten years in the making and left their friends and […]
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Summer Planterra Conservatory wedding provided by Kari Dawson, top-rated Metro Detroit Wedding Photographer, and her team. If you are a bride dreaming of a garden wedding but fear the unpredictable Michigan weather then look no further than a summer Planterra Conservatory wedding! Even if it does rain on your wedding day, don’t panic. Simply trust […]
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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 […]
Kari has been capturing weddings for nearly two decades. Her work has been featured in Carats & Cake, The Knot, Detroit Wedding Magazine, and Junebug Weddings. But the thing her couples remember isn't the accolades. It's how calm the room felt when she walked in.
Karli is her third child and second daughter. On a wedding day she is the quiet infrastructure that keeps everything moving — equipment, coverage, timeline, presence. She doesn't function like a second photographer. She functions like a second lead.
Together, they are rooted in the Midwest and trusted far beyond it.
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