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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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This last spring I hosted a workshop shoot and Annie + Mekel offered to model for it. Which I freaked out for cause they’re just gorgeous. I knew at the time there had been some discussion of an upcoming engagement and I secretly hoped Mekel would do it during the shoot! HA! But, only if […]

Annie and Mekel | Flathead Lake

October 26, 2017

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Every time a couple tells me their awkward I know right away this is gonna be good! Hahaha. Haley actually text me last night after I instagrammed some photos from this session about how she loved them and I had to give her shit and remind her how awkward they supposedly are 😉 This is […]

Haley and Jaris | Missoula Montana

October 13, 2017

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Engagement

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Tessa is so sweet and I totally fell in love with her over email when she was getting ready to book, and as soon as she told me Chris was her fiance I wrote back I KNOW HIM. But I don’t. I mean somehow I know of him, we have a million friends in common, […]

Tessa and Chris | Many Glacier

October 9, 2017

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Kelsey + Nathan got engaged and even now haven’t started planning a wedding yet. Which I love. It’ll all happen when it’s supposed to. For now they were planning a big move to San Diego just because they simply want sunshine and their toes in the sand! I’m so obsessed with how they’ve simplified life […]

Kelsey and Nathan | Snoqualmie Falls WA

September 4, 2017

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Engagement

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This session and experience with Kaitlin + Steve is one I’ll just never forget. I had planned this mini vacation away with my daughter, a last hoorah before she started school. As I planned everything I decided last minute to leave a day later than I had planned. I didn’t know why just had a […]

Kaitlin and Steve | Glacier MT Sunset

September 1, 2017

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Engagement

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Alexis and Joshua came all the way from New York to do engagement photos way up in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park. Well ok actually Joshua’s family has a house nearby in Whitefish and they’re getting married up there next summer so they wanted to have engagement photos in the park this […]

Alexis and Joshua | Many Glacier MT

August 14, 2017

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Engagement

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Things just work out in such strange ways, right?! I’m always amazed at the avenues that couples go through to find me and decide I’m the photographer for them! Layne and Mike are from British Columbia and originally had their hearts set on another photographer from BC but they were unable to photograph their Montana […]

Layne and Mike | Kalispell MT

July 12, 2017

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Engagement

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Breanna emailed me one day asking if I’d photograph their upcoming wedding at the end of June…. to which I said YES! We started chatting through what they wanted and needed, timelines etc and I was just falling in love with her, Trenton and their wedding. At the same time my little sister was planning […]

Breanna and Trenton | Missoula MT Engagement Photographer

May 22, 2017

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Engagement

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This morning I pulled up Paige & Russ’ photo gallery. And appeared these baby faces from a session we did back in 2013. I’ve been photographing them for 4 years and it’s always a highlight of the year. First of all their friends, which just makes it a blast to run around locations being idiots […]

Paige and Russ | Missoula MT Engagement Photographer

December 7, 2016

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Engagement

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I love a great deal. As in 99% of my Christmas shopping is done. And I didn’t buy any of it on Black Friday! So I staretd thinking that if I love such a good deal during the holiday season why am I not offering one to you?! And by a deal I mean I […]

50% Off Sale | Montana and Destination Photographer

November 28, 2016

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