I'm Merry!
I'm an intimate wedding and elopement photographer, wife, and lover of simplicity. I have a passion for marriage and the legacy that love brings to the world around us! I'm so glad you stopped by! Lets grab a cup of tea, or go on a walk and get to know each other. I'm really looking forward to it!
more about me
Dear New Friend,
I just need to go for it. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway. I haven’t written in a while. For some reason, for the last year or so, when I try to write, it feels like a chore. Not a chore that you easily do because it takes a few minutes, but the kind that […]
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When we told people that we were going to Iceland for our honeymoon they looked at us a little funny. “Isn’t that an awful lot like Alaska?” they’d say. “Don’t you want to go somewhere a little warmer?” While we understood their thought pattern, warm temperatures and all inclusive packages weren’t really what we were […]
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It’s an interesting thought to realize there are some people you’ve known your whole life (or their whole life if your a few years older!) but when you get down to it, you really don’t know them at all. Justin is one of those people. Our dads are brothers. We are […]
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With breakup in full swing here in the Last Frontier, hiking around the Eagle River Nature Center in slushy snow, wearing a long skirt, pushing a stroller, with a dog on a leash was no easy feat. For Mike and Asia however it seemed like a piece of cake! Not only did they walk the trails […]
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When I took my first photography class, many moons ago, a lot of time was spent in the dark room. Yep, that’s right. We did film photography in which we exposed our own film, and used enlargers and chemical washes to create our final printed images. While I don’t do film photography much anymore (something […]
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One of the great things about networking, which is what I talked about in my last post, is that you inevitably build friendships with other vendors. In thinking about this in my own network, I automatically think of my friend Anita. Our friendship is a little different, in that we became friends before either of us owned […]
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Relationships are important. Not only that, but they cover all areas of our lives. Think about it. There are family, friends, and coworkers. However, there is also extended family, friends’ children, coworkers’ families, church family, community groups, parents of those our kids go to school with. The bottom line is that anywhere there are people, […]
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One thing that Gabe and I are very passionate about is marriage. If you’ve explored the website at all, you’ve probably seen the page that says exactly that…word for word. I love going to bed each night next to him and seeing his sleepy face in the morning. I love how we both value our health and appreciate […]
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Certain things in life seem to come in cycles. You know what I’m talking about. There are certain things that circle through time and time again. Looking back over my adult life, there are very distinct periods of exhaustion, uncertainty, pain, and constantly being on the go, as well as times of gratitude, consistently finding […]
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I can’t be the only one wondering how in the world it is already January of 2017, can I? The year ended with traveling and celebrating right along with unexpected loss and sorrow. God, as always, continues to amaze me in how he brings people together just as much on the mountain peaks in life […]
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