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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.

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Normally not one to blog a bunch of couples photoshoot ideas, but this post-wedding portrait session in Glacier National Park has too many sweet moments not to share! The day spent with Ashley + James was everything I love about adventure sessions – laid back, full of exploring, and freaking FUN!   First a little backstory […]

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Adventurous Couples Photoshoot Ideas: East Glacier National Park

July 6, 2022

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Not going to lie to you, sunrise engagement photos are not always high on my list. I am not much of a morning person. But on special occasions, when the smoky weather + crazy whimsical lighting calls for it, I will schedule a sunrise shoot. East Glacier turned into a magical fairytale land that morning […]

Sunrise engagement photos in the mountains of Montana

Sunrise Engagement Photos in the Rockies

July 20, 2021

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Couples

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Instagram can make the world feel so small from seeing far off lands you didn’t know existed right in your feed to meeting new people from everywhere! Mallory had a friend get married and go to Maui for their honeymoon and while said friend was on their honeymoon they had photos taken of them and […]

Belize Honeymoon Photo Session

Honeymoon Session in Beautiful Belize

April 16, 2021

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Couples

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My sweet friend asked if I’d do a couples session with her and her husband. They have a new home outside Missoula, MT + no photo on the walls so she wanted something to hang. She asked “Is it weird to hang photos of us in our home of us in our home?” Hahaha. I […]

Shannon + Jared | Missoula In Home Session

August 20, 2020

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Couples

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We had this idea that Tahiti would be cool. Haha! The thought sat with us for bout a minute before we all said ok let’s go. 10 friends off to Tahiti. Truth be told, Tahiti was never on must-travel-to list so I’m actually pretty stoked my friends all wanted to do this. I’d have massive […]

Tahiti Honeymoon Portrait Session at Over the Water Bungalow

Meg + Pete | Tahiti Vacation Couples Session

June 8, 2020

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Couples

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It feels like forever since I wrote a blog post. Cause it’s basically been forever. Life has been AWESOME you guys! I’m going a hundred miles an hour at a steady pace so I’m not dying and I’m so stoked for all the projects I’m working on, new clients I’m working with and everything to […]

Lorissa and Derrick | Missoula Montana

April 24, 2018

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Couples

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Last year I decided to run a special on portrait sessions around Christmas and I was so stoked on the people who booked I did it again this year. So many couples jumped on the opportunity to use them for anniversary sessions, which is amazing cause most couples don’t get photos together after their wedding […]

Leah and David | Missoula MT

January 22, 2018

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Couples

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I’ve been wanting to do an in home portrait session for so long! So happy the first one was with my best friend, Amanda, and her man. We started talking about doing this a year ago. Maybe longer. I was wanting to do them and she was seeing photos of them on insta and wanting […]

Amanda and Ryan | Missoula MT In Home

October 20, 2017

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Couples

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Stephanie started following me on instagram, randomly, one day. I noticed her notification saying she’d followed and I looked at her feed thinking daaaayuuummm this Florida girl is pretty! I always wonder how people even find me on instagram. How did they get to my profile and what about it made them click follow. And […]

Stephanie and Kyle | Glacier National Park

August 30, 2017

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Couples

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I first met Andrea when she asked me to photograph a boudoir session for her. It was early on in my career and she had booked a wedding photographer way before but asked if I’d do the boudoir session. She was just the sweetest. That was FIVE years ago!!!! A couple weeks ago I met […]

Andrea and David | Glacier

August 21, 2017

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Couples

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