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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.
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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.
mitch & cindy
Linda & alex
phillip & brianna
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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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Fall engagement session downtown Detroit. Detroit, Michigan engagement photography at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Belle Isle provided by Kari Dawson. Melinda has a way with words and her initial email caught my attention when she described her story with Brian. She wrote, “It was love at first smell. We met in college at […]
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If you’re looking for outfit inspiration for an engagement session in the fall you can take your lead from this lovely couple! Emily + Mikal chose rich colors that coordinated well but weren’t matchy-matchy and they both looked amazing for their Belle Isle Autumn Engagement. We started their session near the Conservatory on Belle Isle […]
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I am loving this fall Arboretum Ann Arbor engagement! Dreamy light and outfits that include pink is my kind of session! Lyndsey + Robbie met through virtual friends their sophomore year at U of M. These are officially my first Michigan alumni! I have photographed lots and lots of Spartys. Moving on… The location of […]
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Soooo these guys are getting married tomorrow! Last fall we had so much fun shooting their engagement session At Addison Oaks right here in my own town. I don’t know how I let this one slip through the cracks but here’s a peek at this gorgeous couple. I’m so excited to shoot their wedding tomorrow […]
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Playing catch up and sharing a cute Birmingham Engagement from the worst winter in Michigan history hit. What a gorgeous fall day we had for Annie + Craig’s Birmingham engagement session. We had so much fun playing in the park with their puppy. We wandered around Birmingham and I enjoyed watching their easy interaction and […]
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.
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