Hello
I’m Catie
Wedding and lifestyle photographer, and Disney trivia expert.
I’m Catie, and it is SO nice to meet you. I’m a Minnesota gal, and there are few things I love more than laughing. Currently obsessed with visiting national parks with my husband and finding ways I can simplify and slow down.
I enjoy dancing (anywhere and everywhere) and driving with the windows down. I’m a mother to a beautiful baby. An Enneagram 7, ENFJ, travel addict and someone who likes taking pictures that feel like a hug. My music taste is about as wide as it gets, but I probably have jazz or lofi playing all day long.
60+
weddings
6+
years of experience
5 stars
on google
a few
Fast Facts
-My favorite part of a wedding day is the post-dinner party time :) Give me some good music and good moods please and thank you!
-I have two beautiful babies, and married to my high school sweetheart.
-I like the widest array of music genres. Bloom by the Paper Kites has got to be my favorite song though.
-I think there is something so nostalgic about the rain. I’m obsessed with it.
-My Caribou coffee order is a half-sweet campfire mocha. Sooooo yummy.
-I’m kind of a clean freak. I really enjoy cleaning, organizing, decluttering… all of it.
MY STORY
I knew I was meant to be creative in my career, just didn’t know what it would look like.
I never ever thought I’d start my own business. Not in a million years. I ended up here because after starting my career first in sales, then in higher education, I realized how much I cared about being passionate in my work. I’m not motivated by climbing the corporate ladder, I care the most about enjoying my life on the day to day. I’m motivated by waking up on Monday morning feeling excited about the work I get to do.
I’ve always loved being creative, but I didn’t know I would be able to do something creative in work. I went to school for communication studies, but minored in graphic design. Little did I know the graphic design would be so helpful in photo editing now.
I bought my first DSLR camera during my undergrad, just to take photos for fun of me, my friends, and the beautiful landscape of La Crosse WI, where I was living at the time.
In the beginning, I was posting these photos for fun, and then some of my friends wanted photos for Christmas cards, some friends needed engagement photos, and slowly it snowballed into more casual shoots. I was doing it really casually for a while, and wasn’t planning on making it anything more. It was quickly after the pandemic started I was handed plenty more time during my week because just like many, I was sent to work from home for the foreseeable future.
With all the extra time not commuting to downtown (and when we were all in lock down), I was given the opportunity to dive deep into creating better work, building a portfolio, and found so much joy in it. It was that summer I decided I wanted to pursue this as something more serious!
