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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. The first time I ever had a wedding published on a blog… albeit a small wedding blog… I fist pumped feeling like I MADE IT!!!!!!!!! WHEW!! Fact…. I still do that, every single time one of my couples gets to grace the sites or pages of publications. In the middle of the summer I […]

Featured | Carolina & Abe | Luxe Mountain Weddings

October 6, 2015

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  Destination I Do Magazine is one of the leading resources for brides planning weddings away from home. I’m so thrilled to see Christine & Jon’s Las Vegas wedding featured on their blog today!! This is one of my favorite weddings ever. I was so lucky to bring along one of my best friends, Meg […]

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October 22, 2014

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I don’t enter many photos into photo contests. I don’t know, I just don’t. A lot of them, or most of them, turn into popularity contests of who can tell more people to vote for them and get them to do it. Just takes the fun out of a contest, I think. The Photo Contest […]

The Photo Contest 2013

March 26, 2014

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I’m SOOOOOOO excited to see Kelsie & Johnny’s wedding featured on Luxe Mountain Weddings yesterday. Kelsie and Johnny have a deep love for the mountains. As soon as they got engaged Kelsie went searching the internet for mountain weddings. Gathering ideas. Locations. Vendors. Etc. And in her search she stumbled upon Sami & Dylan’s wedding […]

FEATURED | Kelsie & Johnny Luxe Mountain Weddings

December 9, 2013

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I’m getting everything ready for a road trip tonight for an awesome wedding this weekend. Took a quick break to find out that Sydney & Aaron’s amazing wedding that happened just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia was featured on Bridetastic Canada today!!! Check it out!! Such a great start to the weekend. Thanks Bridetastic Canada!! […]

Featured | Bridetastic Canada

October 5, 2012

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Lauren & Kolten’s shoot has been such a hit. And it was featured again on The Woodlands Bride!! Thank you thank you for featuring this session even though it didn’t take place whatsoever in The Woodlands, Texas 🙂 Contact Jackie  |  Join the Facebook Fanpage  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Twitter  |  Check out the […]

Featured | The Woodlands Bride

August 7, 2012

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Lauren and Kolten’s couple shoot is seriously one of my all-time favorite shoots I’ve done. So pumped to have it featured on Pen and Paper Weddings!!! Contact Jackie  |  Join the Facebook Fanpage  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Twitter  |  Check out the Website

Featured | Pen and Paper Weddings

July 18, 2012

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A few months ago a friend encouraged me to submit a session to be featured. I was SUPER nervous about this and thought who would even feature my work. So I submitted a session.  It was picked up by a couple blogs. I was so excited I didn’t even care who it was. But then […]

Featured | Luxe Mountain Weddings

July 5, 2012

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Candice & Patricks wedding has been featured again!!!  Wed4Less NW even connected with Candice to get more specifics. I love it!! Make sure to go check it out, leave some love for C+P and Wed4Less for loving their wedding and supporting me! AND it’s a 2-parter!! Make sure to check back again tomorrow for Part […]

Featured | Wed4Less Northwest

May 21, 2012

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I feel SO incredibly blessed. Blessed with gorgeous couples madly in love making my job so easy. Clearly them and I are not the only ones to love these images. These images have been viewed/shared/pinned more than I can count. I considered trying to figure it out but really I’m blown away. Let’s just top […]

Featured | Engaged Wedding Blog

May 16, 2012

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