& that makes all the difference.
My role is to support the flow of the wedding day, while documenting it with you and your people at the core.
I care about the logistics, so you can focus on being present.
about the work, and the person behind it
That’s why the way a photographer works matters as much as the images they deliver. My approach is shaped around protecting the experience of the day, so what’s preserved reflects not just how it looked, but how it felt to be there.
What matters more is how the day is handled.
You being able to be with your people without worrying about what’s being captured, how you look, or whether moments are being missed. Trusting me that what matters to you is photographed without needing to manage it yourself.
Beautiful images matter.
But they aren’t the reason my couples work with me.
I've been invited to photograph hundreds of weddings over the last ten years, so there's not much regarding a wedding day that would surprise me. This much time in the industry has trained me to have the ability to read the room and anticipate moments before they even happen.
What I bring to a wedding day is more than coverage.
I've been invited to photograph hundreds of weddings over the last ten years, so there's not much regarding a wedding day that would surprise me. This much time in the industry has trained me to have the ability to read the room and anticipate moments before they even happen.
As humans, love is the best thing we do.
Regardless of society's beauty standards, it's my responsibility to take photographs of love-filled images. Meaning your belly laughs, sobbing during speeches, and wild dance moves will not be cut from the final gallery.
The space you share with me is a safe one.
Nothing about you needs to be managed or corrected in order to be photographed well. Not your body shape, who you love, or the shade of your skin.
We are creating an experience together.
Communication is QUEEN. My responsibility is to listen to your needs and expectations and use my experience to guide decisions so we can just make art together!
values that guide this work:
There’s also an understanding that moments like this are rare.
A wedding is often one of the few times — if ever — that all the people who shaped you are in the same room. Parents and siblings, old friends and chosen family, the people who knew you before every version of who you are now.
We tend to believe we’ll have endless opportunities to gather everyone again, but that’s not always true. I work with that awareness in mind, attentive to the rooms and relationships that won’t exist in quite this way again.
With that tucked in my brain, it shapes how I show up. Not just on wedding days, but in my life outside of them. It’s part of how I understand responsibility, presence, and what it means to be entrusted with a day that can't be redone.
Outside of my work, my life is shaped by my soul mate, two small humans, and two doodles.
They are the ones who ground me, support me through the demands of running a business, and remind me what matters when the work gets busy or loud.
This is the life that forms how I see time, connection, and the responsibility of photographing chapters of other people's lives that won’t come around again in the same way.
This is my family and I love doing
life with them.
On wedding days, my favorite things include handwritten vows, colored suits, and a packed dance floor. It's important to me that you get to have the day you dreamt up. What I look forward to most is getting to celebrate you. Although, the dessert table sure is a close second!
The family I've created with my husband is my dream come true. Now the next one is to live out West with them, rebuilding my business in the mountains! My favorite things to do with my family are going to baseball games, sitting around a bon fire, and going for golden hour walks.
Anna & Nate
We are so obsessed with our photos and loved working with Phern. She made everything easy and we want to do it all over again!
She is professional and an incredible resource for getting the day-of on a clean timeline. We genuinely have not been able to put into words the incredible magic that Phern created with our engagement & wedding photos. She made the process so effortless! At our wedding, Phern just blended into the background and was able to capture some of the most incredibly special candid moments of our wedding. So many of our loved ones have praised Phern’s ability to capture our wedding in the moment without us feeling like a star on a reality TV show (which was exactly what we asked & she delivered!).
