15 years married today. 🤍
We’re very clearly in the wedding industry— but even more importantly, we strive to be in the marriage covenant business.
If we’ve learned anything after 15 years of marriage, it’s that marriage is a covenant unlike any other. It’s God’s picture to the world of His love for His bride, the church, and all those who believe on His name.
And after 17 years of shooting weddings, planning alongside and partnering with so many wonderful couples for one specific day, we’ve also learned this:
If everyone planned, prepared, invested in, and protected their actual marriage the way they do their wedding day— there would be a whole lot more couples standing on the dance floor during those anniversary dances we all love so much.
Marriage is a continual commitment to choose the other over yourself.
To serve.
To forgive.
To choose love daily.
Marriage isn’t a 50/50 relationship.
It’s 100/100.
We know that’s not the popular view in today’s world. Selflessness rarely is. But it’s exactly what Jesus showed us when He gave His life for us.
It’s not always sunshine and rainbows. But the longer we’re together- striving to be and do what God has called us to- the sunny days far outweigh the stormy ones.
And after all these years… we’d do it all over again.
Ps. That last photo?
30 years ago this year. 🤍
Also yes— I have had every hair color, cut, and style
imaginable. 😅
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Sneaking in sessions between rainstorms 🌸
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These are the golden days ✨
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Hello— we’re C R PHOTOS.
If things have felt a little quiet around here lately… It’s because we’ve been busy behind the scenes.
This off-season we poured ourselves into rebuilding our website, refining our branding, and creating a space that feels more like us and more like the experience we want our couples to have.
17 years later and we still believe the best images are the honest ones. The in-between moments. The feeling you didn’t realize anyone noticed. The moments that matter more than the production of it all.
Might be a new look, but it’s the same heart behind it.
Love always—
Christina & Ryan
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Weddings weren’t meant to be a production. Yet somewhere along the way, they became one—driven by trends, vendors, pressure to perform, to outdo each other, for the highlight reel if it all.
But at its core, this day is about something far greater: a marriage. A holy union. Real moments, real memories. The ones you LIVE in— not just post.
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We don’t want to be another cog in the machine that is the Wedding industry. Let’s go back to simpler times.
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Spring is springing!
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