NON-TRADITIONAL WEDDING AND ELOPEMENT PHOTOGRAPHER ✶ CO, IL, FL, INFINITY & BEYOND

HEY, I'M STEPH (sHE/HER)

I'M JUST A kid at heart and self proclaimed nerd WHO HAS NEVER REALLY FIT IN, WHO spent MY school years in baggy ozzy osbourne and slipknot t-shirts, buried in fantasy novels about dragons, played role-playing video games, and screamed lyrics in the pit at live shows with my friends trying to escape my reality (and surprise - not much of this has changed into my 30s).

YOUR MEMORIES ARE SO IMPORTANT HERE

i didn't have the perfect family portrait to display on my wedding day. I lost my dad to his battle with alcoholism at the age of thirteen. then I LOST MY GRANDPA TO A BATTLE WITH CANCER ON MY 16TH BIRTHDAY. and obviously there's a lot more story in between those two sentences: a SINGLE-PARENT childhood that made me isolated from my peers, LEFT ME WITH A FEW DEMONS TO BATTLE, AND GAVE ME A SURVIVAL INSTINCT AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE that today I'D NEVER TRADE. my mom, sister, and i dropped everything IN 2013 to leave our little trailer park in illinois and run off to colorado to start over and it's meant all the difference. i'm telling you this because it directly affects you: i was dealt a hand that has UNIQUELY SHAPED me, and NOW THE WAY I PHOTOGRAPH your mEMORIES unfolding through a lens of personal experience that SHAPES MY ART, AND THE importance I PLACE IN HOW I CAPTURE THESE MOMENTS FOR YOU. I’m putting my heart and soul into your happiest memories, so that you have more than three photos left to remember once all this is over. BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, AND I care a whole lot ABOUT YOU.

A FEW MEMORIES of a person that meant a lot to me & taught me how important it is to remember

"ISN'T ART A KIND OF COMMEMORATION OF PAIN? WHERE DOES IT GO OTHERWISE?" - GOOD GRIEF