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We are a mother-daughter team tucked in the heart of rural illinois. though we are located in rural illinois we always love photographing new places and new people. so grab a dessert and coffee (or tea in our case) and take a look around at the moments we have captured. we are so glad you are here, make yourself at home!

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Happy Tuesday, friends! We are so excited to be sharing Mallary and Sean’s engagement session with you all today. These two were SO much fun to work with, and talk about photogenic! AHH! They seriously were awesome. Mallary’s one request for locations was a more natural setting, and so we set out to find the […]

June 18, 2019


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Happy Tuesday, friends! We hope you all are having a great start to your week! If you have been following us for a while you know that Tuesdays are usually wedding blog day, but since we had the weekend off we thought what better thing to share instead than this gorgeous couple’s engagement session! From […]

June 11, 2019


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We are so incredibly excited to be sharing Colter & Morgan’s wedding blog with you! We were blessed with the most gorgeous weather, that was completely unexpected! Rain had been in the forecast ALL week (imagine that right?!?!) and so the blue skies and sunshine were the perfect surprise. There truly was SO much that […]

June 5, 2019


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Samantha & Jordan got married on Jordan’s family farm on a rainy (imagine that, this crazy spring weather) Saturday this spring. The ceremony took place in a barn on the property and the second Samantha got in the barn to walk down the aisle the rain just came POURING down. She made it JUST in […]

May 29, 2019


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Earlier this month we got to meet our awesome group of Team Twenty Spokesmodels. We met up at Taylor Hall in Macomb where each of the girls got their welcome gifts. We just love to spoil our girls and so of course the Kickoff Event was no exception! Next they got the chance to met […]

May 25, 2019


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Cortney really wanted spring blooms for her and Joey’s engagement session and I was all for that, because you know how much I love spring sessions! With the weather we had this spring the trees were all over the place, some blooming early and some not blooming until much later, so we were very thankful […]

May 24, 2019


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Hey friends and happy Tuesday! I can’t say enough just how honored we were to be a part of Carley & Austin’s wedding day. Carley had put so much thought into every aspect of their day and so being chosen to play a part in their day was so humbling. She had literally thought of […]

May 22, 2019


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Today is Graduation day for many of these girls and so what better way to celebrate than by sharing their cap and gown session with you all! I’m just gonna be honest and say that this session was COLD, like miserably cold. I’m talking, in the 40s, and these girls were all in dresses. They […]

May 19, 2019


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Sarah and Jonathon’s engagement session landed during the perfect time this spring; the trees were in full bloom AND the weather was perfect. And lets just be honest, lately pretty weather has been hard to come by. We were so excited to get to finally meet them as we have been corresponding with Sarah via […]

May 17, 2019


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Hannah and Connor had a beautiful spring wedding at St Padua Church and reception at Oakley Lindsay Center in Quincy. And though their wedding day  started out cool and rainy by the time we were ready for photos the sun was shining and it was gorgeous out! And one of my most favorite parts, the […]

May 9, 2019


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