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Jill Brown has over 15 years of experience in the field of photography. She has studied photography at Missouri State University and Maryville University, St. Louis. She spent time working on her personal fine art work for many years and in 2003 started her first wedding and portrait photography business in St. Louis, MO. Jill moved to Des Moines, IA in 2005 and has continued her wedding and portrait business along with her fine art photography. Jill currently has work displayed in and around the Des Moines area as well as work in personal collections around the world. Jill uses both medium format film cameras and digital formats to create her images. This is how the artist describes her work: “My work is a reflection of everyday life and places. I chose the medium of photography as a tool to capture the essence of the person or place. I create images to depict the subject as they are remembered in the mind. Not posed or unnatural, but as a window into the intimate world of the subject.” Jill Brown is a member of Professional Photographers of America.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Jessica + Jason | Midwest Wedding Photographer

Date: August 21, 2009
Ceremony: Lavender Crest Winery - Colona, IL
Reception: Lavender Crest Winery - Colona, IL

I met this couple at a family wedding last spring. This couple actually found out I was a wedding photographer because of my youngest daughter. Her son, Dylan, and my daughter, Mary, danced the entire night away last spring. They still talk to each other on the phone... ah puppy love.

On to this love story...
This wedding had me tearing up. It doesn't happen every time I shoot a wedding, but once in a while one really gets to me. Maybe it was what the officiant said during the ceremony. He hit every important point about what being married is about. Especially that marriage is not just about being in love with the person, but that you both believe in the idea of what a marriage is and that you spend your life together creating that dream and making it happen.

Maybe it was the moment when the groom turned to the bride's two little boys and told them that he was not only marrying their mom, but that he was becoming their step-dad and that from this day on he was going to watch over them and guide them and love them. Then he presented the boys each with a pocket watch to remind them that he would always be watching over them. Oh... tears of happiness were flowing from every corner of the room.

Congratulations Jessica and Jason. I wish you both a long and full life together...



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