Wedding and a Lifestyle photographer based out of Jackson, Ms! I love to travel and love couples! Let’s create memories together!
11/21/2025
Taylor and Adam’s wedding day!!!! So so in love with everything about it. The florals, the people, the whole day was just filled with so much intention and love. From handmade center pieces by (which is the bride might I add), to bouquets put together by the bridesmaids with help from and ! The couple kept it personal by getting ready and doing the majority of photos at the grooms family’s house and then their beautiful ceremony was at . It was a stunning wedding to say the least!
11/18/2025
literally never post pics of myself so here I am!!! Ugh can somebody just please pick me up and drop me right on the side of a mountain? One of my all time favorite things to do (outside of being a wedding photographer of course), is finding some easy(ish) hikes with some cool views so heres some photos from my most recent trip to Colorado. It’s been about two years since my last out of state photography gig but I’m happy to say that’s all changing soon. One of my goals when starting out in my business was to become a destination wedding and elopement photographer. While some years have been busier than others in that aspect, 2026 will be the year for travel! I have so many exciting things come up in the first half of the year.. Sint Maarten, Bahamas, cancun/tulum… things are feeling very much like a fever dream and I hope I never wake up. What’s so cool about booking destination weddings and other things is the fact that somebody values your art, your work, and trusts you to the point they are determined for you to be their wedding photographer. It’s not a role I take lightly. it’s not about the destination but the couples experience there and me being able to serve them in the best way I know how. Documenting them ultimately getting married and celebrating that love. Getting to go to a cool place in the name of love is only 10% of why being a destination photographer is so special. I’m so thankful for the couples God has sent to me and I can’t wait for all of the photos to come!y
11/17/2025
That’s right. I capture life after the wedding also. Courtney and Ryan, we have been through engagements, wedding day, “just because” pictures, pregnancy announcements and now the maternity! Next up, birth photos!!!
I seriously can’t believe it. Life flies by but your memories stick around forever. Every moment in your lives are beautiful, make friends with your photographer and the photos get even more sentimental and only sweeter. Love these two so much and their growing family!
11/16/2025
My oh my. Officially wrapped this beautiful wedding gallery! I love getting to relive wedding days through the editing process. This one kept me smiling the whole time. Alli and Gage are the sweetest couple and these photos embody how much love and fun was had on their wedding day!
11/11/2025
Bridal prep moments with Molly and her girls 🩵
10/31/2025
I cannot quit obsessing over these photos you guys. All I can say is they exude SO SO SO much joy which is really reflective of how the day went. Molly and Gabe had the most perfect wedding day. Molly said “we love the rain” and I knew right then the day was going to be a dream.
10/21/2025
the fall wedding of my LITERAL DREAMS! Jonathan and Averi, the love you two have is unreal and unmatched. The Lord certainly had His hand in putting you two together. From 7th grade to being married!!!!! Now look at yall, holding hands forever and celebrating Christmases for the years to come (iykyk). Thank you for letting me be apart of your day in the best way I know how. Regardless I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. The Hemphills love yall BIG!
10/16/2025
1000/10 recommend doing private vows during your first look on your wedding day. Not only are you guys creating intimate memories together, but creating a scenario for candid moments to be documented. I also feel like it adds more emotion into your bride and groom photos! Take a look at one of my favorite private vow moments!
10/15/2025
Mrs. Gregory! Can we just take a moment for these bridals? Good gracious they’re pretty!
10/15/2025
Fall is for families. I mean coooome on!!! Look how cute! Things look a little different since we did engagement pics, eh? love this little fam and so happy I got to meet the newest addition!
10/12/2025
Alli + Gage! Wow. I knew I was going to love this wedding but creatively this just really checked all of the boxes. My couple was so sweet and their love absolutely radiates in the atmosphere around them. I literally had to pinch myself when looking through these photos because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS MY JOB?? just so grateful for this couple, this life and the amazing clients who trust me to capture their weddings!
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10/09/2025
I always post my couples but today I wanted to post these. These are photos I get at every wedding and is a moment that I hope all moms get to experience. While my couples are priority on their wedding day, these moments are equally as important because the person who helps with the dress is somebody who was chosen because of their role in the bride’s or couple’a life. I seriously can only recount one time where a bride didn’t care who helped her and we just picked her maid of honor. When I tell you it is always the mom, grandma, sister or mother figure that helps with this it is not an exaggeration. SO if you get to be the one to help the bride into her dress, consider it an honor. This is actually an intimate moment that you get to be apart of and that I get the honor to document. So here’s to you lovely women who get to help put the dress on. Just like with every other occasion, we couldn’t do it without you!
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I’ve always had a love for capturing moments and memories. I sound like a broken record when I say I love being able to look back at times captured and feel the same feelings I felt in that moment- almost like I’m being taken back in time. In the end, memories become all we have left after the time has passed.
Growing up, my grandmother would always take home videos and pictures of everything I did. I’d like to say I get my love for saving the memories from her. That’s something she has always been good at, as well as my mother. They both have photo albums upon photo albums and my grandmother with her videos.. even if she can’t find half of them sometimes. The nostalgia I feel when I look back at old memories is what I hope the couples, the families, or the individuals that I get to work with, feel when they look back at their moments that I’ve captured for them.
In my teenage years, I began capturing pictures of nature. I loved being able to see things from a different perspective than what other people do. Looking back, this is truly where two and two came together for me. Although, I didn’t start photographing actual real people until a few years later. Looking back at my first wedding- God bless those people, haha - is when I finally found my niche in the photography world. Seeing their chemistry, their love being preserved with every click of the shutter is when I knew that was what I wanted to do primarily. Don’t get me wrong.. I love getting to know everyone that I get to photograph. I believe that with each individual shoot comes a unique experience for each.
Being different is truly what I strive for. Sometimes ideas don’t come naturally as I feel they do for others but I always put my own spin on things to make it unique. Most of the people that I work with tell me that they do not like taking pictures (mainly guys) but I pride myself in knowing that I’ll at least get a “It’s not that bad” in the end. I feel that having laughter and being able to be yourself is truly how a picture should be captured. After all we are preserving a memory, right? Right.
I look forward to hopefully working with you one day! Let’s get creative together!