What a fun farm engagement session for one of our 2019 August couples! I had a blast traveling to Stuart, Iowa and wandering around town to multiple locations with them for photos. Can’t wait for your big day and despite the crazy wind we captured so many great pics! August will be here before we...
Sunset Ridge Barn is the absolute perfect location for a June wedding here in Iowa! Just minutes South of the Des Moines, Iowa metro they have the most gorgeous backdrop for ceremonies over looking the pond. K+J had the best day filled with happy tears, love and laughter. K made the most beautiful bride and...
Fun engagement session in Des Moines reacently with one of our July 2019 wedding couples and their fur child. Can’t wait till your big day this July!
I know sweet Kelsey from years ago at Buena Vista where we attended college together. She reached out to me recently about their engagement session and we just hit THE more perfect night for photos. They are having a fantastic destination wedding this Spring of 2019. I couldn’t have been happier to catch up with...
Kami and Emory were married at The Gateway Hotel & Conference Center at Iowa State University this past Saturday in Ames. Kami was one of our very first ever clients for her senior photos years and years ago and so fun to be able to capture multiple milestones in peoples lives! Their first look involved...
Courtney and Brad kicked off our 2018 wedding season with the most gorgeous wedding at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa in the Palace Theater. I can’t say enough great things about these two! Gosh in 2011 we had the pleasure of photographing Brad’s sisters wedding and many sessions for their family since. How fun to...
I had a blast shooting M+G’s engagement photos with their adorable dog recently. They are one of our awesome 2019 wedding couples for the fantastic Rollins Mansion here in Des Moines. We ended up with the most gorgeous Sunday night for photos!
I had such a blast with this March engagement session! We lucked out with just the best day. You never know in Iowa what the weather will be (and wind!) in March so we had a blast enjoying the sunshine! Can’t wait for J+D’s big day this fall at one of our favorite wedding venues...
Oh my goodness this winter engagement session!!! What a PERFECT winter day for engagements here in Des Moines, Iowa! And I can’t say how much I enjoyed photographing ice skating engagement photos. Over the years I’ve had so many people inquire about it but we’ve always chosen another route. SO COOL to shoot a session...
Stoked to have wrapped up our 2017 wedding season (our 9th one at that!) with an ANOTHER award for 2018 with a Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Award!!! Based SOELY on client reviews. Tanner and I say it often, we never really intended as two young college kids at BVU to have ZTS Photo grow into...
Oh my goodness can we just talk about what a perfect wedding venue the Salisbury House and Gardens is here in Des Moines?! Tanner and I finally photographed our first wedding there in 9 wedding seasons a few weekends ago. What a PERFECT garden wedding venue. And so much greenery, I can’t say enough great...
We had such an amazing wedding portrait session with these two at sunset a few days ago. Wedding portraits are so incredibly important so it was great to be able to capture some special ones for these two. They literally let us pick any spot we wanted and were so much fun to work with!...
Jess and Taylor had a picture perfect wedding day at Sticks here in Des Moines. They started out getting ready at the new AC Hotel by Marriott in the East Village. I can’t say enough great things about the AC Hotel, what a great venue for getting ready! I highly suggest all wedding couples pick a getting ready...
Sarah and Danny had a beautiful wedding day at the Rollins Mansion here in Des Moines. If you haven’t been it’s the perfect vintage mansion venue for an outdoor garden wedding. The day started off with the gals getting ready in East Village at the wonderful Salon Spa W. From there they headed to...
Erica and Jordan are HUGE Chicago Cubs baseball fans so when they came to me with the idea to do their engagement photos at Principal Park home of the Iowa Cubs how could I say no!? A Cubs themed engagement shoot, sign me up! It was so fun wandering around the stadium for photos at...
We had the best time photographing Ashley & Aaron’s big day a few weeks ago. We kicked off the day by the gals getting ready at the amazing Penelopie Beauty Bar in West Des Moines. I can’t say great things about this location for bridal makeup in Des Moines, ladies check it out! (Or even for...
Rachel and Sam had such a fun June wedding day surrounded by their closest family and friends. You can truly tell so much about a couple by spending their wedding way with them and they have some awesome people in their lives! They were actually married by Sam’s father (the first ever father we’ve had...
I wish it could stay mid June forever! Oh gosh that late night perfect summer Iowa light is everything. I had a great nature engagement session in Des Moines last week with these two. I can’t wait for your wedding day in April 2018 at Adventureland. Thanks for having me and we had such a...
Alyssa and Cameron had the most beautiful wedding! The Embassy Club and Embassy Club West wedding venues in Des Moines are always such a pleasure to shoot at and we are SO thankful the rain decided to stop just in time for photos. How lucky were we! We started off the day with the girls...
Oh my goodness could we have lucked out more with this amazing Des Moines engagement session?! I think not! Complete with a rainbow!The sessions started out with some sprinkles but these two weren’t bothered a bit! The sky was just epic and we had such a great night, a wonderful little field of daisies followed...
Despite the foggy day we captured some amazing photos for Jen and Mike of their Downtown Des Moines Marriott Hotel wedding! The fog proved to be a fun backdrop for the overview of the Des Moines skyline and the gorgeous purple May flowers blooming at the Iowa Capital really helped add in that pop of...
Last Saturday we had the pleasure of capturing another gorgeous outdoor Iowa Winery wedding at the beautiful Prairie Moon Winery in Ames, Iowa. Aleicia and Jared literally had a picture perfect day. 80’s and sun made for the best backdrop for all their photos. We started out the day at the PCI academy for hair...
AHH!!! We are incredibly honored to be considered one of the top 3 best voted wedding photographers in Des Moines, Iowa along with one of our amazing talented photographer bff’s Amanda Basteen. How great is that!!! Check out the link here Tanner and I have had the best time the last 9 wedding seasons getting to work...
Last Friday I had the pleasure of photographing Mitch and Molly’s wedding at the Iowa Capital. Sadly we had some CRAZY thunderstorms but thankfully even though they were great sports and got soaked mid ceremony…it cleared long enough for some amazing portraits after! We started the day getting ready at DesLux Hotel in Downtown Des...
I had a great (but cold holy cow!) January engagement session with Eric & Meg. You’d never know it was 30 degrees, and I swear they didn’t stop smiling the entire session. You can tell Meg is originally from Wisconsin, she just braved the cold no questions asked! You two are so adorable together! I’ve known...
Kicking off 2017 with the wonderful Scherers! Maggie and Michael had the best wedding day, we couldn’t have asked for a better winter wedding to kick off 2017! We had the pleasure of shooting Maggie’s sisters wedding last April, and Maggie literally hours after she got engaged she Facebook messaged me she HAD to hire...
What a beautiful November day in Indianola for a wedding! A few weeks ago we traveled to Indianola for Alex & Lindsay’s big day. We’ve shot many weddings at Smith Chapel located on the beautiful Simpson College campus. We were so glad fall stuck around till November for those amazing leaves! The day started out...
OH MY GOSH how cute are these two?! They just rocked their fall engagement session! Thanks for listening to my crazy ideas and checking out some new places with us for photos. I can’t believe this beautiful fall weather has stuck around so long this year, 60+ in November in Iowa is unheard of. Can’t...
Tanner and I had a great time capturing the Robinson wedding a few weeks ago in Pella, Iowa. We started off getting ready with the girls at the church, ironically Tanner and I shot one of our first ever weddings at the same church in oh gosh 2009? 2010? It’s so fun to return back...
What a fun fall engagement session recently. This is one of our awesome May 2017 couples, and we can’t wait for their big day at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott. I had a blast exploring the Papa John Sculpture Park, the Women of Achievement bridge with that epic sunset glow of mist off the river...
Last Saturday we headed down to the beautiful Honey Creek Resort on Lake Rathbun, Iowa for Piper and Jared’s big day. As always Honey Creek is on point with amazing service and friendly smiles. We love working there and highly suggest it to all brides looking for a beautiful location that allows guests to have...
Kaitlyn & Darrell are so much fun! You can truly tell from spending the day with them how much they care about each other. All the laughter and love is apparently in the photos! They were married at the gorgeous West Des Moines Marriott as well as had their reception there. They let Tanner and...
We ended up rescheduling 3 times due to icky weather and so excited we did! Sunday was the perfect night for fall engagement photos. That fall sunshine is everything! I even found a new location downtown with a great view of the Des Moines skyline for sunset. What a great engagement session with these two...
What a beautiful August day for a wedding! I was so excited when Morgan and Matt told us about the vintage fire truck for portraits. I mean how cool is that! Matt is a volunteer firefighter for the City of West Des Moines. Apparently someone donated the beautiful vintage fire truck for firefighters to use...
We were super stoked to get an e-mail last week that out of 251 wedding photographers in Des Moines we were chosen as ONE of the top 19! How cool is that! You can check out the full list on the Expertise website here. They said their decisions are based on reputation, credibility, experience, availability to...
Tanner put together a fun little drone wedding video preview from Saturday’s gorgeous wedding at Diamond Oaks Event Center in Clear Lake, Iowa. I still can’t get over the RAINBOW we had at sunset. Seriously if rain is good luck on a wedding day a rainbow has to be the best luck ever! Congrats Nic &...
Tanner and I had the pleasure of photographing a surprise proposal this past Friday at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates building here in Des Moines. OH MY GOSH they were so adorable! Congrats to Tanner and Emily and he spent so much time and love into the proposal! How adorable are they?! Wishing...
The wonderful owners of the new Red Acre Barn wedding venue shot us message a few weeks ago asking if we’d be interested in joining them for a styled shoot. Of-course I said I would LOVE to check out the beautiful new venue AND take some photos! Thanks for including me and I had a blast!...
A few weekends ago Tanner and I headed to Dubuque for Lindsey & Matt’s big day. And what a gorgeous day it was! They found the coolest spots overlook the river for us to take photos at and I can’t believe the weather was only in the upper 70’s with no breeze for July. Post...
With this post I’m officially all caught up for our vacation starting tomorrow night! WOO! We had a wonderful (BUT 95+ degree HOT) engagement session last week. These two are so much fun! We can’t wait until their (hopefully cooler) wedding this November in Indianola. June is just so perfect for a wonderful sunset and...
