About Chelsea
All the calm, all the confidence, to get you lasting memories of your wedding day.
You've got this vision in your mind of the perfect wedding, and there's not a Pinterest board in sight (or maybe just a small one- no judgements here!).
Sure, you love some pretty details but outdoing your friends’ wedding isn’t on your agenda.
And while you're obviously excited about your day, you know it's not necessarily the most important day of your lives. (Although it's probably up there in your top 10.)
I see you.
You want to celebrate your love for each other. But this is about MARRIAGE, the stuff that goes way beyond a wedding day. The future struggles you'll get through together, the understated ways you show your love for each other, the epic milestones that happen beyond the wedding day itself.
It's kind of about your families, too. Whether that's having the people you love the most there to celebrate with you or sneaking off with just the two of you and springing the surprise on them later.
Because it’s a day that flies by in an instant and I don't want you to miss a moment.
You're the kind of couple that embrace the chaos and crazy of the day and face any issues with a shrug and a smile. You’re all about loving and living each awesome minute of your special day, whatever happens.
That's not to say your wedding day isn't important to you both. You just know there are bigger things to worry about in the grand scheme of it all.
If you get to the end of the day and you're officially married and you had a great time, then it's all been totally worth it. And classic, stunning pictures of the day as it happened are the perfect way to round it all out.
You're in the right place.
Because I'm all about getting you those natural, fun and classically timeless photographs that'll remind you again and again what an awesome day your wedding was.
Pictures that evoke memories of your Mom trying not to cry (and failing!), that remind you of the cheers around the room as you went in for your first kiss, and put you right back in the moment when your Aunt Mabel took shots with the groomsmen.
That's what wedding photography is all about. That's what I work to capture.
The real stuff, the in-between moments, the unscripted emotions of it all.
What you see is what you get with me. I have a no-bullshit approach to getting the story of your day in beautiful images. So, if you want a laid back photographer who knows how to capture it all, we should probably talk.
“We had a blast working with Chelsea; it was like working with a friend, and she made the experience fun and easy, from the first time we spoke with her over the phone through our wedding day, and was efficient and professional. Our families were impressed as well!”
-Grace
Who am i?
PHOTOGRAPHER, People-Wrangler, and Your Wedding Day
Cheerleader.
I've been shooting weddings since 2007–basically my entire adult life, bar a couple of odd jobs back in college. What's not to love? I get to spend my days working with incredibly happy couples. Every workday is full of smiles, laughter and joy. I can't ask for any more than that, right?
If there's one thing my couples say about me, it's that I'm zen AF, and I'm good to have around in a crisis. I come joyfully prepared. Truthfully, you're already going to be surrounded by happy, excited people or feeling the fluttering of nerves and excitement in your belly, without me adding to the crazy.
I mean, I know you're pretty chill anyway. But, if things get a little overwhelming, you know where to look for a little calm.
My husband and I live in Ypsilanti with the loves of our lives, our two cats. When I'm not chasing after wild bridal parties, we live to travel. We're avid scuba divers, love to travel and explore, and probably bake way too much. We’re in process of working our way through the Milk Bar cookbook at the moment. If you know, you know.
We met at the University of Michigan and we stayed in Ann Arbor because it felt too much like home to leave.
