09/21/2026
Nearly ten years of Roots & Wings.
Ten years of standing quietly behind a camera, watching some of the most sacred moments of people’s lives unfold in front of me.
Ten years of vows spoken with trembling voices. Fathers seeing their daughters as brides. Mothers fastening dresses. Hands held beneath tables. Wind catching veils. Ch*****ne spilling. Bare feet in the sand. Mountain air filling lungs.
The kind of laughter that makes you forget a camera is even there.
Ten years of learning that the most beautiful parts of a wedding day are rarely the perfectly planned ones.
They are the glances.
The pauses.
The voices.
The people.
The things that, without a film, eventually exist only in memory.
Roots & Wings began in Colorado in 2016. Somewhere along the way, my story found another home across the Pacific, where the mountains meet the sea and Hawaiʻi became woven into both my life and my work.
Colorado & Hawaiʻi.
Mountains & Oceans.
Roots & Wings.
And somehow, in between, this little dream has carried me farther than I ever imagined.
Across states.
Across oceans.
Onto airplanes and winding mountain roads.
Into intimate elopements and rooms filled with hundreds of people.
Into families and traditions and places I may never have known otherwise.
But the greatest gift has never been where this work has taken me.
It has always been who it has taken me to…
The couples who have trusted me with a day they will never live twice.
The families who have welcomed me into something deeply personal.
The people who have allowed me to preserve voices, movement, laughter, tears and love exactly as they existed in that moment.
I don't take my place in this industry for granted.
years from now, the flowers will be gone.
The dress will be tucked away.
The tables will be cleared and the photographs will live in frames.
But then someone will press play.
And suddenly, a voice fills the room again.
A grandfather laughs.
A mother speaks.
A father gives his toast.
Two people, a decade younger, promise forever to one another.
For a few minutes, time gives something back.
That is why I make films.
Not simply to document what a wedding looked like, but to preserve what it felt like.
To create something that becomes more valuable with every year that passes.
Something your children may someday watch. Something that can outlive the people within its frames.
An heirloom.
As Roots & Wings approaches ten years, it felt like time for the outside of this brand to finally reflect what has been growing inside of it all along.
More intentional.
More refined.
More rooted in storytelling.
Still deeply romantic.
Still reverent toward the moments I'm invited into.
Still me.
This isn't a new Roots & Wings.
It's a deeper expression of the one that has been taking shape for nearly a decade.
Rooted in Colorado & Hawaiʻi and Ready to follow your story anywhere.
Nearly ten years of people, places, promises and stories preserved.
And somehow, I still feel the same sense of wonder every time I pick up my camera.
What a privilege it is to make something today that may mean even more tomorrow
And none of these years belong to me alone.
They belong to every couple who trusted me with a day they can never live twice.
Every person who welcomed me into the quiet, sacred spaces between the moments everyone else could see.
Every vendor who stood beside me in the rain, chased fading light, carried gear, fixed veils, shifted timelines, shared referrals, and became a friend somewhere along the way.
Every person who spoke my name in a room I wasn’t in, shared my work, encouraged this dream, or believed there was a place for the stories I wanted to tell.
To every single one of you, thank you.
And above all, I thank God for placing this calling on my heart, for every door He has opened, every story He has entrusted to me, and for allowing this little dream to become a life far more beautiful than I ever could have written for myself.
Nearly ten years later, I am still humbled that this is what I get to do.
That people invite me into some of the most meaningful hours of their lives and trust me to preserve them.
That this little dream has carried me from mountains to oceans, into places I never imagined I would stand, documenting stories I never would have known otherwise.
There are thousands of frames behind me now, but I never want any of them to feel ordinary.
Because somewhere, years from now, someone will press play and hear a voice they’ve been longing to hear again.
They’ll see the way their father looked at them, the way their mother laughed, the way their hands trembled through their vows, the people gathered around them exactly as they once were.
And for a few minutes, time will give something back.
That will forever be the greatest privilege of Roots & Wings Films.
