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 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! 

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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 […]

Business, Personal

A Taste of Inspiration

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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 […]

Business, weddings

Justin & Jacqueline

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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 […]

Family

Mike & Asia & Aaron

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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 […]

Business, Personal

Help Out “Uncle Joe”

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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 […]

Business, weddings

Vendor Highlight: Midnight Sun Cakery

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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, […]

Business

Networking. What’s the Point?

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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 […]

Business, Personal

Leaving Disorder Behind

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