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I'm Jackie

Traveling wedding photographer + photography/small biz educator.

Mesmerized by the way two people love each other, each so uniquely.  I always leave room for dessert. Believe swear words are just sentence embellishers. Think indulgences are necessary in this life. 

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Love stories in all forms without the white dress... or maybe they wore white, it happens.

Just my little thoughts on different topics of planning your wedding day big party or just you two.

Stories of two lovers making it all about them, as they should.

No secret, I’m a dreamer.  I can’t help it. I can’t help but want more, desire more, need more, thrive for more!  Now this doesn’t mean I’m unhappy with my current life. That isn’t the case at all. I love my life. Heck I love everything about my life. Everything that is happening right NOW, in this moment.  My motto is to “Enjoy the Moment.” But if life is so good now, what I can do to make it even better?! I can’t settle with good or great or amazing. I want it to continue to be good, continue to get better and continue to be amazing. To always push the limits. See how far I can take it. Annddddd now I’m ranting.

So I try every week to stop, slow down and dream up new goals. Cause I have no intention of keeping my dreams as dreams. I want to take steps and make them goals!  Now there are a few that are big and for the time being are dreams, just waiting on the right time 😉  So back to the story. Sunday I took Cattie along on my morning walk. We headed down to a little pond or now they are calling it a lagoon. When I was a kid it was McCormick pond now it’s Silver Lagoon. Odd. It was so nice and sunny I just sat in the grass while Cattie threw rocks, checked out some geese, spotted a turtle, and so forth. I sat there realizing how much my life was changing, who I was becoming as a person, which even included my dreams for the future, my shooting, etc. And honestly I liked it. I love where I’m going. Which led me to what do I want next.

Last year I said I was ready to take this show on the road and book weddings outside of Missoula, outside of Montana and even specifically photograph a wedding in Vancouver, BC.  Well this summer I’m headed to Van, Idaho, all over Montana and even Las Vegas.  So what next. Where am I wanting to go next?  Well I’m a Mexico bride so the caribbean is always on my mind. And Europe, specifically the homeland. Norway.  I started to question where would I find my dream weddings. Weddings that encompassed everything I believed in life. That spoke to me. Where I could see my creativity let loose. But most importantly not just these things, but a bride and groom that were ideal. Ones that would become lifelong friends. Who had the same passions and desires. Couples who would be the faces of Jacilyn M essentially.  And then it hit me. Tahoe and Jackson Hole. It started with a dream of couples and weddings that I could connect completely with and ended with a goal of where to find them.  That’s it. Next year I must shoot weddings in Tahoe and Jackson Hole. Are you in Tahoe or Jackson Hole? Are you getting married in Tahoe or Jackson Hole?  Know someone? I want you. I need you. I already love you.  (cause you’re reading this, duh ;))  But on a serious note lets chat and connect cause I really do have something special for you!

Now I can’t stop looking at blogs all about Jackson Hole and Tahoe weddings. Swooning over Tahoe Unveiled RIGHT NOW!

Sidenote: through the however many minutes it actually took for me to type up this blog my designer and I were chatting. They are doing an incredible job of determining where I am going, who I am becoming, etc to make me look goooood. And in our discussion we talked about blogging and pulled some insane ideas for upcoming blog posts and series. STOKED! So you should bookmark this, or subscribe to the RSS feed cause it’s gonna be ridiculous!

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