MALLORY+STRANZ | the last minute location change worth a million dollars

Can you believe this location was the BACK UP that I only found 9 minutes before our shoot started?? I had arrived to our planned spot (this one!) to find it COMPLETELY dead, so I just kept driving. Didn't even stop the car and sporadically took the very first right turn and then almost IMMEDIATELY found the most perfect grove of birch trees with yellow leaves carpeting the grass!!?? What good deed did I do this week to deserve this!!!

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CASSANDRA + NATE | like Tuck Everlasting, minus the one-sided immortality
PEYTON+JEFF | that empty misty Yellowstone morning that fed my soul

TESS + CECIL | respect the uggs

Some people hate the idea of a winter wedding, some people love a winter wedding! Tess is the latter. She spent 18 months as a missionary in Wisconsin (walking OUTSIDE in the cold, cold winter every day!) which is pretty much the most extreme winter I can imagine - I mean Wisconsin is nearly Canada and Canada is NEARLY the North Pole. Then she came home to the mountains of Utah and eventually married Cecil in the middle of a December snowstorm! Here we are, three winters later, doing some anniversary pictures of Tess and Cecil - OBVIOUSLY in the snow again!

Fun fact - in some of these pictures, Tess is wearing the same pair of Ugg boots she wore on her wedding day! Haha! Desperate temperatures call for desperate measures. I am constantly telling winter brides about how smart Tess was to wear Uggs to her wedding!

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EMILY + PETER | lds hartford temple wedding with fresh frozen grass
KAYLEY+JAKE | if the Von Trapps really went to Switzerland

LINDSEY+COLE | I made an ice cream mistake

There was only one bummer about this shoot and that is the fact that I did NOT GET AN ICE CREAM for myself after we finished shooting!!! What’s wrong with me?! Lindsay, one of the most Minneapolis experts I know, recommended Izzy’s Ice Cream for our shoot and yet I still have not tried it for myself. I am ashamed. And hungry.

Also, I wasn’t joking about Lindsey the Minneapolis expert. When we moved to Minnesota, I found her travel page on Insta which led me to her site which led me to a plethora of ALL THINGS MN. It’s like a treasure chest of all things a young, kewl, hip, young person would like to do around Minneapolis (and beyond) and that is exactly who I want to be. Thanks to Lindsey, I now know I wanna ride the Minneapolis Water Taxi, hike around Taylor Falls, and visit..

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MINNESOTA’S LARGEST LLAMA FARM in Waconia!!!! You can take them for walks! And they even have a llama that was in a Dorito’s commerical!! I’ve always wanted to meet a celebrity and I feel like this may be my chance.

Need I say more? I need not. Here’s their pictures. And when I say ‘their’ I’m talking about Lindsey and Cole. Not the llamas.