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Clients for Life | Alberto & Anne

Carrs Photography Client for Life Minnesota Family Photographer

Since the day we started Carrs Photography almost 15 years ago we have told our clients that we want to be their photographer for life! We love shooting engagements and weddings, but that is just the beginning. Your life will be full of adventures – new homes, new babies, new jobs, birthdays, graduations – and they all deserve to be documented with beauty, style, and rockstar photography!

Alberto and Anne are one of those clients who immediately captured our hearts. You know when you just have a connection with someone? When things feel easy, light, and comfortable? That is exactly how we feel working with Alberto and Anne! They live out of state so we didn’t meet face to face until their engagement shoot, but from our first FaceTime call we just knew that they were special people.

For their engagement shoot, they graciously hosted Michael in Minneapolis providing a tour of the city, taking him to some of the best food spots in town, and serving up some amazing looks for their session. This is a couple that epitomizes grace and style. Their outfits were inspired by a recent trip to Europe and everything about this shoot gave us a romantic Parisian vibe. It was also one of the most acrobatic shoots we have done at Carrs Photography with Michael hanging off the edge of a bridge to snag this epic canoe shot. But the resulting image was 100% worth it.

Not surprisingly, their wedding was just as perfect. This couple always looks good! And their first look might be one of our all-time favorites. You can’t fake the emotion on Alberto’s face when he saw Anne – pure happiness and joy. It doesn’t get any better.

Fast forward a few years and many visits and meals together, we got the news that they were expecting. I know that we always say pregnancy makes you glow, but seriously, Anne was radiant.

When Avalyn arrived, we were immediately smitten. We know our little Posy and Avalyn will be great friends. And check out her amazing mop of hair! I think we have another natural in front of the camera.

It has been such a gift to walk along Anne and Alberto in each of these life stages. It is a reminder of what we love about our job so much. Each time we pick up a camera we get to tell a piece of a story in someone’s life, the more pieces the better in our opinion.

Did you work with us for a wedding? We have special Client for Life pricing for you as you move through new stages of life… don’t forget about us!

Carrs Photography Client for Life Minnesota Wedding Photographer — The Carrs Photography is an editorial wedding & portrait photography studio specializing in documenting fine weddings and storytelling portraits in Dayton Ohio, Chicago and Worldwide

The Carrs Photography is an editorial wedding & portrait photography studio specializing in documenting fine weddings and storytelling portraits in Dayton Ohio, Chicago and Worldwide

Carrs Photography Client for Life Minnesota Maternity Photographer

Small, Intimate, Downtown Wedding | Peyton & Corey

So, 2021 is warming up! An end of COVID is in sight and we’re all itching to get back out into the world! April is a month full of weddings for us, but March gave us this incredible experience with Peyton and Corey!

These two were full of infectious laughter and joy. It was easy to see the way they loved each other!

Between Becca & Alex’s amazing wedding at the new Dayton Arcade and Peyton and Corey’s small joy-filled celebration of each other we are stoked about what 2021 has to offer! Check out some of the shots below!

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Downtown, Classic Urban Wedding | Becca and Alex

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When you photograph architects you get to go on some behinds the scenes adventures! Becca and Alex let us in on the new Dayton Arcade project and it was amazing! These two were the perfect pair to start the year off right with!

Check out some of the highlights from their day below!

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Timeless, Elegant Stories In An Uncertain Time: The Best of 2020

It’s hard to overstate the challenge that 2020 was for all of us. It was a year full of uncertainty, instability, and unrest. For a lot of our friends and couples that meant postponing important life moments, or preparing for conditions they had never expected on the biggest days of their lives. For others it meant facing incredible tragedy and hardship.

As photographers it is years like 2020 that we feel the weight of our jobs most clearly. Photos can be so dear, and sometimes their importance is only understood long after they could be replicated or repeated. We’re so grateful that you trusted us with those moments this year. It is hard to overstate what that means to us, and it’s our prayer that these are photos that you carry with you for a lifetime.

We got to hear so many of your stories in 2020! And despite the conditions: It was a year full of bold love, joyful bonds, and beautiful creativity! Check out our favorite shots of the year below!

In Memory of Aidan Clay

In February I had the amazing opportunity to take some photos of a local musician and artist: Aidan Clay. Aidan was one of the nicest, most generous, people I have ever met. We connected over music and songwriting and he gifted me the beautiful 1920’s grand piano we used for the shoot.

In December of 2020 Aidan passed away. It’s hard to overstate the light that the world lost with him. I experienced a great deal of joy over the course of our brief friendship and I know that so many others felt the same. I was blessed with the chance to do a session with him and his fiancé a few weeks prior to his passing.

Sharing in Aidan’s story for those few months highlighted, to me, the importance of being a person of grace and generosity. His was a life well lived and I look forward to the chance to pick up where we left of on the other side.

-Alex

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Classically Styled Country Wedding | Kayla & Brian

Kayla and Brian planned this absolutely gorgeous country wedding out in Camden Ohio. From breakfast and prep in one of the cabins to dancing under a starry sky: the day was the story from a classic country song and we had an incredible time being a part of it! Check out some of the shots Kera and Bryan captured from the day!

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Dark Romantic Fall Elopement | Jessica & Henrik

With most of the normal wedding traditions getting tossed out the window: Jessica and Henrik eloped with a simple focus: Capture Love. Capture Joy. and Be Together. In their own words:

Having a big traditional wedding was never something we dreamed about and COVID pushed that possibility out of the picture entirely. I think we landed on the idea of elopement after thinking about our love languages. I feel the most love through quality time and physical touch. Being able to spend our whole wedding day together was important to me. I loved that I could do my own hair and make up myself at the kitchen table as Henrik watched video game live streams on the couch within arms reach. We fulfilled my physical touch needs by being able to hold hands and dance and snuggle up in the rain instead of feeling the pressure of pleasing everyone else at a traditional wedding. Henrik feels the most love through acts of service so we made our own wedding cake and cook a delicious dinner together that evening.

As for the vibe we were going for, we wanted an edgy, moody look! We leaned into breaking traditional hard with my black dress and doc martens. Our lives as military doctors is so structured and well uniform, we wanted anything but that!

Check out some of the shots below!

Flowers by: Sherwood Florist

Cake By: Jessica & Henrik

Shoes: Doc Martins

Skeleton Hand Flutes by: Pottery Barn

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Private Chic Country Wedding | Gentry + Gabe

We had an incredible time at Gentry and Gabe’s country wedding in Alexandria Ohio. From their beautiful details to their incredible vows and gracious spirits: the day was amazing!! We got so many shots we were stoked about, and these two made it easy on us!

Check out some of our favorite shots below!

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Classically Styled Christmas Wedding | Steam Plant Wedding | Dayton, OH

Chelsey and Kevin were the perfect bookends to the year! Their engagement was my first shoot of the year and their wedding was my last of the year

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Boho Wedding | Steam Plant Wedding | Dayton, OH

Check out some highlights from Tori and Ben’s amazing wedding at the Dayton Steam Plant

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The Best Photos of 2019 | Wedding & Portrait Photography

The following are some of our favorite images from 2019. They can only scratch the surface of the incredible stories we’ve been blessed to be a part of this year. We are endlessly grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the biggest moments of your lives this year and in all of the years to come. Here’s to 2020!

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