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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.
mitch & cindy
Linda & alex
phillip & brianna
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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 […]
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I am so excited to share Christopher and Kimberly’s summer engagement session in the woods. If there is any one word I would use to describe Kimberly and Christopher and their relationship, it would be laughter. And I’m sure they would agree. They both keep each other laughing. Neither take themselves or life too seriously. […]
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I love it when my couples bring their cute dogs for their engagement sessions! Eric + Jessica did just that for their winter Rochester Engagement Session. I am so excited for you to see their cute one-year-old golden retriever puppy! Chase was so good! He was playful, very well behaved and so easy to photograph. […]
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Gwen and Clarke have discovered a place of solitude in Canada that includes a lovely bridge where they like to spend time and where Clarke proposed. When we planned their romantic Rochester engagement session it was the bridges in and around the downtown area that first drew our attention there. Clarke is Canadian and he […]
Kari has been photographing weddings for nearly two decades. Her work has been featured in Carats + Cake, The Knot, Junebug Weddings, and Metro Detroit Weddings. But what her couples say afterward has nothing to do with accolades. It's that she saw things they didn't know were happening until they were holding the photographs.
Karli doesn't function like a second photographer. She functions like a second lead, with her own eye, her own presence, and a depth that surprises people who mistake her warmth for smallness.
What that means on your wedding day is that you are never a subject to us. You are the whole point.
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