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Name:  Dave & Shellee       Wedding Date:  August 20, 2011        Location:  Fox Hill Event Center, Cadillac MI Dave & Shellee had a gorgeous wedding in Cadillac!  All of the purple was so pretty….one of my favorite colors!!   1 – How do you like being married? Is it all that you dreamed it would be? […]

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Grand Rapids Wedding Photography // The Wedding Album! Albums are…in my opinion…kinda the point!  There is nothing better and more satisfying to me than finishing a wedding…designing an album…having it printed…..then seeing it for the first time on my doorstep!  All of our wedding collections include an album because I feel this way!  We take […]

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Grand Rapids Wedding Photography // A simple and gorgeous wedding album design!

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Grand Rapids Boudoir Photography // What a better gift to give your soon-to-be-hubby than a gorgeous album with photos of pretty you inside?

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Names:  Derek & Katie     Wedding Date:  April 22, 2011    Wedding Location:  St. Cecilia’s Music Center Katie & Derek’s Grand Rapids wedding was beautiful!  I loved everything about it!! 1 – How do you like being married? Is it all that you dreamed it would be? Not much changed after the wedding besides my name. We […]

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Photography is obviously a love of mine!  It has been for quite some time.  I can remember saving up for my very first Canon film camera in high school…..that I bought at Wal-Mart.  I know what you are thinking!  Wal-Mart….really?!?  Yes!  Everyone has to start somewhere…and that’s where it was for me.  I still have […]

Maternity

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Monique is my beautiful sister-in-law!  This will be her third pregnancy and her fourth baby!   Yes, the last pregnancy was a two-for-one 🙂  After three baby boys, I finally talked her into a maternity session for her sweet little girl that she is expecting in May.  She most likely won’t be having any more little […]

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Only eight and a half months after we moved into our new house….I am writing the first before and after blog post!  Honestly, it hasn’t been until recently that I have actually finished a room.  Between not having the time to work on it, not knowing what I want to do with each room and […]

I’m a wedding and portrait photographer, and I’m also a disability advocate working to make the wedding industry more accessible, thoughtful, and welcoming. I believe love stories deserve to be told in spaces where care, dignity, and access are part of the experience - not an afterthought.

This work is deeply personal to me. I’m helping build an industry that’s ready for my daughter, Gabby - so that when it’s her turn to dream, celebrate, and be celebrated, the world is already open to her, just as she is.

wedding photographer turned disability advocate

I’m Kellie. 

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