Schedule your senior portrait or family session between the dates of April 1st-June 1st and get free goodies! All sessions are $75 and include a private online gallery, one free digital negative, and with all sessions between April 1st-June 1st, you'll get your choice of a free accordion-style album or 3 free prints. Extra albums, digital negatives, calendars, and more are available à la carte in the Julie Hagenbuch Photography Online Store.  Space is limited, so book early!

The wonderful vendors from Maggie and Alan's wedding:
Venue: Stone Cliff Winery and Wartburg Seminary Chapel
Flowers and Cake- Asbury Plaza HyVee
DJ - Alexxus Entertainment
Wedding Gown- David's Bridal
Band- Chris Klump, Jeremy Schieferstein, Chris Mandeen, Grant Thornton
Vocalists - Aaron Copley and Rickey Spivey
Photographer- Julie Hagenbuch Photography and assistant Katie Backes of KB Photography (Katie got the awesome shots of the ceremony from the balcony of the chapel, not to mention many other great photographs throughout the night).

Maggie and Alan's ceremony was a non-traditional circular set-up in the Wartburg Chapel. So original!

  

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I couldn't wait for Maggie and Alan's winter wedding last weekend in Dubuque, Iowa. They're the kind of couple I dream about photographing: creative, not afraid of bending traditions, and—as you can tell from the photos—adorable together.  Their ceremony venue at the Wartburg Theological Seminary was extra meaningful because they're both currently enrolled as students.

Maggie's dreadlocked hair made an awesome nontraditional up-do.

   

Maggie and Alan chose to do a First Look before the ceremony.  
I encourage all of my brides and grooms to consider participating in this new tradition--
it allows you to share the first moments of your wedding day alone, in an intimate setting, rather than in front of your guests. 
Maggie and Alan had their First Look in the third-floor Meditation Chapel at Wartburg with mid-afternoon light streaming through the windows.

  

After the First Look, we headed out into the cold for a few portraits. Maggie came prepared with snow boots!

   

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I had so much fun working with the Stone family last week! Beth Ann and Karl-John found the perfect spot in rural Lewisburg to spend the chilly Sunday afternoon taking portraits. And their boys have such strong personalities! The two little guys even suggested some of the poses you'll see below.

  

  

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A few weeks ago, I had the serious pleasure of flying west and taking engagement portraits for Maggie and Alan in Dubuque, Iowa. We started the shoot in the botanical gardens where Alan proposed, then headed to Wartburg Theological Seminary (where Maggie and Alan study) for some fall color, leaf fighting, and beautiful brickwork.  We ended the bitter cold day at the Dubuque Riverwalk for romantic portraits by the water.  If you can't tell by the photos, these two are awesome together--and they accidentally wore matching shoes.  Can you get any cuter?  Can't wait to return to Iowa for Maggie and Alan's gorgeous winter wedding!

  

  

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I was honored when Peggy asked me to take her and David's engagement photos; she's been like a second mom to me since I was eleven and we were Revolutionary War reenactors together (that's right, we were reenactors--you know it's cool).  Peggy, David, and I met at the Boiling Springs Lake and surrounding grounds on peak weekend for bright autumn colors.  But Peggy and David's love and laughter was even more vibrant than the trees! 

I seriously can't believe that this guy is graduating high school.  Benja and I spent an afternoon last week trying to wrangle his dogs Cyril and Norbert for photographs in his backyard, but all of my favorites were of him by himself. Model material?  Totally.

Julie Hagenbuch Photography is running a Fall Family Portrait Special on sessions between the dates of October 12th - November 5th.  All sessions are $75 and include a private online gallery, one free digital negative, and with all sessions between October 12 - November 5th, you'll get a free 8-photo accordion-style album.  Paper and canvas prints, digital negatives, and extra albums are available à la carte.  Space is limited, so book early!

Learn more and book a session on our Family Portrait page.

Happy fall!
Julie

Back in June, I posted a few drawings by Ray Ray Mitrano, an Event Illustrator based in Austin, Texas.  This month, Mitrano released a new series of drawings from a wedding he illustrated in Rhinecliff, New York, and as Adrian the Bride said: have you seen what this artist can do?  

In my photography, I always aim to capture life in a way that's as unique as the brides and grooms I work with, and that's what I love about Mitrano's wedding illustrations: not only are they skillful and honest, but they stand way, way out from the background noise of traditional wedding imagery. 

Shine on.
Julie

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