Cassy and Cameron’s Wooded Wedding in Northern Michigan

Bride and groom pose for portraits in a hayfield in Northern Michigan by Ann Arbor Wedding Photographer Heather Jowett.

I’ve formed a new habit this wedding season. Every night, when I return home from shooting a wedding, I grab a little notebook I keep on my desk and write down the one memory that really made an impression on me that day. It’s a privilege to get to do what I do, to get to be with people on their wedding day, and the psychology major in myself has always loved making little observations about a couple’s behavior on their best day ever.

For Cassy and Cameron, after driving the four hours home from their wedding at Cassy’s family’s cabin up north, I grabbed my notebook and scrawled the words “The way they instinctually found one another’s hands at the start of every prayer.” I could tell, this was a couple whose love and affection had become a second nature to them, as natural as breathing.

Here are Cassy and Cameron, showing their second nature.

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  • Heather Kanillopoolos

    AHHHHHHHH so freaking gorgeous!!

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  • Jessica Schilling

    This is so gorgeous and beautiful. Everything about it.

  • michelle edmonds

    Lovely, lovely. So many beautiful moments captured.

  • There’s something about the way he wraps his arms around her that melts my heart…excellent work here Heather!! Bravo!

  • Beautiful! The couple must be stoked about their portraits!

  • Wow what a great location and lovely couple.

  • The one of them standing on the haybale is so dang gorgeous!

  • Holy Smokes, so good! That first shot is rad.

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