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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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Ohmygosh proposals. Let me tell ya that honest to god I’ve never been a big fan of photographing proposals. They always have seemed to be over the top, perfectly planned with a ton of details. And I’m just not into it. Sorry not sorry. But 2020 I photographed a few proposals in Glacier National Park! […]

Dan + Paula | Glacier National Park Engagement

August 14, 2020

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I’ve grown up in Montana and there are just some areas that blow my mind every time I’m there! Paradise Valley is one of those places!!! Julia + Blake grew up in Livingston and said downtown was super cool and they wanted to do some of their engagement photos down there and then drive out […]

engagement photos in the mountains of Paradise Valley MT

Julia + Blake | Paradise Valley MT Engagement

July 30, 2020

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I think about this night all the time. It still doesn’t seem real. I just wish I could bottle up the light that night and take it with me everywhere. That evening with Sarah + Pete in Missoula, MT for their engagement photos had the BEST and most dreamiest light ever!!! It just glowed through […]

Sarah + Pete | Missoula MT Engagement

May 26, 2020

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Ashley + Michael came to town on a little roadtrip to check out their wedding venue and hang out in Missoula enjoying time with friends and hitting up the breweries. She really wanted to hike to a cool spot with wide open and mountain views. We had a bunch of ideas all around western Montana. […]

Missoula MT Rainy Fall Engagement

Ashley + Michael | Missoula MT Mountain Engagement

March 13, 2020

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I’m obsessed with engagement shoots. I just recently started doing more and I’m so excited about it. So many of my couples are destination couples coming here for their wedding or bringing me to them so in the past we often haven’t seen each other in the flesh til the day of their wedding lol. […]

Jamie + Emery | St Ignatius MT

December 28, 2019

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Destination engagements. This is becoming a thing + I’m all here for it!  I have so many couples who choose to do their engagement photos on vacation. WHY NOT?!?! I mean it’s genius. You’ve invested in a new cool place to visit what better way to preserve it than photos and for your engagement are […]

Yellowstone dreamy sunset engagement photos

Hannah + Connor | Yellowstone Engagement

November 23, 2019

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Glacier National Park  in the fall is a pretty magical place. It’s incredible all year round but being a seasonal park it’s not fully accessible for actually most of the year. It has a short season. Shelby + Erik planned a fun session with me in the park the day before their intimate wedding was […]

Shelby + Erik | Glacier National Park

October 10, 2019

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It’s amazing what can come from a little app like instagram. A few years ago a Kaitlin + Steve came to Montana from Pennsylvania to visit Glacier recently after getting engaged and decided they wanted engagement photos in the park and found me on the good ol’ gram. We had a blast out there! Months […]

Courtney + Christoph | Jackson Hole, WY

September 29, 2019

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They’re so mesmerized by each other. She is everything to him and you see it every time he looks at her. He lights her up. Every time she looks at him she starts beaming. He gets her to laugh like no one else can. It’s so freakin’ beautiful.

I actually first met K+N a few summers ago when they asked me to photograph their engagement photos outside Seattle at Snoqualmie Falls.

Kelsey + Nathan | Sunset Cliffs San Diego

August 13, 2019

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I am crushing sooooo hard on these two and this freaking shoot! Beartooth Pass is a special place to Anna + Chase and they asked if I’d come meet them and photograph their engagement photos and I bout lost my shit. We planned this epic run up the pass from Red Lodge, Montana over into […]

Anna and Chase | Beartooth Pass

October 4, 2018

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