Hi, I’m Alyssa
I'm an artistic couples, elopement, and wedding photographer based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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✦ Me at the Gas Lamp, shooting a concert.
I believe that your life, whatever stage you’re in, is worthy of documenting. Moments are fleeting. Your memories of the here and now should be preserved, so you can look back on them always.
My style leans documentary, timeless, and sincere, with some avant-garde editorial vibes and artsy influences. I love color, flash, film, and all things non-traditional/unconventional, and I love to carefully observe and capture the natural beauty and genuine emotion that unfolds around me on a wedding day.
✦ Me in New Mexico, me and Nick (my love!) modeling in Illinois for @fromthedaisies retreat, and me eating fish tacos in Southern California.
While I do want to take a little time with you for creative couples portraits, it’s important to me to provide a mostly non-intrusive approach on your wedding day to allow you the space and time to truly relax and enjoy your day with your people, not worried about posing, or social media, or perfection. I don’t want you to perform for my camera, I want nothing to be fake. I want the real version of you, and I’m honored to witness your real feelings and memories unfolding before us.
✦ Nick and me having breakfast together in LA.
My work has been featured in many publications and I’ve been published internationally multiple times. You can see some of my features here:
✦ Me having a great time being a tourist at the Griffith Observatory in LA lol! 🤓🪐
Here’s where i find joy:
LO-FI & ANALOG TECH ⛓ the anonymity of the city ⛓ WORLD TRAVEL ⛓ art museums ⛓ OUTER SPACE ⛓ the sprawling new mexico desert ⛓ LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE ⛓ turning my yard into a shade garden ⛓ MICHELIN RESTAURANTS ⛓ experimental music ⛓ WEIRD & CHALLENGING ART ⛓ symmetry (and also chaos) ⛓ GREAT STAGE PRESENCE ⛓ cooking from scratch ⛓ THE FEMALE GAZE ⛓ a good ugly cry ⛓
✦ Nick & Me when we first bought our house in Des Moines. It had every color of paint, lol, and since then we’ve spent a lot of time renovating (and repainting). Photo taken by my friend Bri Station.
Here’s where I’ve been (in the US). Take me somewhere new. I want to check off my remaining states and go abroad many more times.
✦ Us on tour with Nick’s band in South Dakota.
✦ It’s our annual tradition to do couples photos to document whatever era of life we’re currently in. I love looking back at all the sessions we’ve done over the years. These were taken by my friend Raelyn Ramey.