My friend married my cousin

"I've enjoyed all the parts of my career" - Dolly Parton

As I reflect back on the last 20 years of photographing weddings, my heart is full. I have photographed all kinds of people with all different personalities and all different ways of dealing and managing stress.... And I have loved every experience. I haven't loved every moment, but the difficult moments helped me appreciate all the great splendid moments. This spring will mark 10 years of photographing with my business and life partner @mesessa. I can't believe those years have gone by so fast, we've had so much fun. There's so much joy in weddings, yet there is also sometimes crippling stress.  Through all of it Michael has supported and inspired me... and picked up the pieces when I have fallen apart. There's been a number of ceremonies that we have caught a glimpse of each other and we both have a tear brewing in our eyes from just being truly loved.  It has seriously been feast or famine, but I don't regret any of it. I truly love my job.

Shai and Dalton - these two met while working on a film I am making about how my grandparents met. My grandparents met….immediately starting dancing. By the end of the dance my grandfather knew he was going to marry my grandmother. It didn’t happen quite as fast as that for Shai & Dalton……but I knew that night that they would fall madly in love and together until they grow old. Less then a year after filming….they were married. So I wasn’t wrong.