meet your new hype woman

Hi! I'm so happy you're here! I'm a wedding and elopement photographer, based in good 'ole Elkhart Indiana. 

I’m an unconventional photographer because my start is anything but conventional. I didn’t go to school for photography, I didn’t come out of the womb with a piercing love for photography. However, I’ve been slowly finding myself along the way!

I have my Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality Tourism Management. After graduating college in 2017, I worked as a social media and marketing director for three years. In 2019, I decided I wanted to take better photos for my content and bought a kit lens - nothing fancy. I played around with it and decided to do a Grease themed shoot at the Elkhart 4-H Fair. It went viral on Facebook with over 12k shares and I had so many people asking why I wasn’t doing this part time. A week later, I invested in a better camera and did just that. 

While still finding my footing, my grandpa unexpectedly passed away. When gathering photos for his funeral, I realized I didn’t have many photos together and our most recent was about 10 years prior. This made me want to pursue photography wholeheartedly and made me realize I wanted to capture moments that people could hold onto and look back at. 

In 2020 amongst the pandemic, I went full time. I was working at my family owned business at the time and running the place. It was difficult leaving a place where I was comfortable and knew I would be set for life, but I wanted to find success on my own. I read a quote that said "like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would." A few days later, I got that wildflower tattooed on me as a reminder, and put in my two weeks.