Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.

You all know the story of me asking for a “real” camera for Christmas of my senior year in high school. I didn’t really know what that meant other than knowing that my pictures might improve. I didn’t even know that what I was referring to was called a SLR (Single Lens Reflex)! But I […]
Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.
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It’s been almost four years. I took a chance, I held my breath, and I jumped. My trusty Nikon N50 film camera hadn’t been touched in ages and with digital images all over Facebook and people wanting to actually pay me to take pictures, I needed my own digital SLR. But when I went to […]