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A little behind the scenes from one of my favorite parts of a wedding day 🤍

This was one of those moments where having both photography and videography happening together really matters.

I was focused on photographing the bride’s entrance and all of the beautiful details around it, while Kris was right there capturing the moment on video from his own perspective.

We’re both watching for the same things, but we’re not creating the same thing. Photography preserves the frame. Video preserves the movement, the sound, the reactions, and the feeling of actually being there.

And at a venue like The View, with that incredible chandelier overhead, there was no shortage of beauty to work with. ✨

It’s easy to think of photo and video as two separate vendors, but when they work well together, they become two ways of preserving the exact same day.

You get to remember what it looked like.

And then you get to hear it, watch it move, and experience it all over again, too. 🤍

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Mr and Mrs Lause!!!

I love thinking of calligraphy as printed music. 🤍

There’s something about the rhythm of the letters, the movement of each stroke, and the way the words come together on the page.

It adds an elegance that never really feels trendy because, at its best, calligraphy is simply timeless.

Always graceful. Always intentional. Always classy.

A few favorite calligraphy moments lately.

✨sneak peek✨Congratulations to Abby and Chris!!! We LOVED being a part of your beautiful day capturing all these memories for you to cherish forever 🖤

Happy wedding day to Abby & Chris! We are SO excited to be capturing your beautiful day for you to cherish forever 🤍 Wishing you a lifetime of love and adventure!

This is the kind of detail that makes me love OKOTA Collective. 🤍

For this wedding cake, almost every little piece was created specifically for the celebration.

The cake charm started as raw clay that I sculpted by hand, fired in the kiln, glazed, and fired again to create the finished piece.

The cake stand was also made from scratch, including a custom glaze combination I developed to create that subtle metallic effect and tie it into the rest of the event design.

And the finishing touch? Hand-dyed silk ribbon, sourced specifically to complement the palette and texture of the day.

None of these pieces were pulled from a catalog. They were designed, made, tested, sourced, and finished specifically for this celebration.

That’s one of my favorite things about OKOTA Collective. The possibilities can get very niche. If you can dream up the detail, we can often figure out how to make it exist.

From NOTE stationery and WILLOW florals to .events Studio O event artistry and the photography that preserves it all, OKOTA Collective gives me the opportunity to approach an event as a complete work of art rather than a collection of separate pieces.

And sometimes that means sculpting a cake charm, firing it twice, and developing a completely custom glaze because the cake stand needs to match. 😂🤍

Honestly, those are my favorite kinds of details.

The happiest when I’m behind the camera, doing what I love. 🤍

There’s something about a wedding day that still gets me every time — the anticipation, the people, the little moments happening all around me, and getting to preserve it all for someone else to relive for years to come.

This is the part of my job I never want to take for granted.

So, hi. This is me... usually somewhere behind the camera, smiling way too big because I genuinely love what I get to do. 🤍