The journal

Many of our couples’ proposal stories could bring you to the verge of tears with how sweet, romantic, and well thought out they are… This one brought us to tears through laughter! (In a good way!) Melise and Nick both love to camp, so for her birthday, he took her to Big Bend National Park […]

Us girls over here at MJP have all dealt with name changes, and we know, its a pain in the butt and can be super stressful! DMV and social security office lines, passports and banks… Don’t even get me started! So, to help you out and hopefully spare you a few tears, we have put […]

As we enter the new year, we wanted to discuss all of the new trends for weddings that we’ve been experiencing: what we think is important, what we absolutely love, and what we want to leave behind in 2019. • Invitations • Invitations used to be incredibly uniform: all the details were engraved on a […]

There is just something so special about creating your first family heirloom. I keep our wedding album on our coffee table and smile every time I see it sitting there. Having digital images is wonderful, but having a printed keepsake that tells the visual story of our wedding day is priceless! We aren’t a photography […]

Rebecca and Nathan both had their friends set up Tinder accounts for them, and though they didn’t want to use them, they gave it a try and luckily ended up finding each other. Rebecca joked that Nathan was “super sweet and not creepy,” so she decided to give him a chance as well. They met […]

Like how so many love stories begin, Matt and Caroline’s was in high school. They were both cast in the school musical, she as Cinderella and he as Prince Charming. They began dating and their lives took them to Las Cruces, where Caroline studied to become a teacher and Matt joined the military. Matt decided […]

While incredibly young, Hannah and Derrick have already been together for years, having made their relationship official in 2013. She is an RN, and he is currently a dietetic intern. Hannah reached out to us soon after getting engaged, and we could not have been more excited for this fall shoot in Hyde Park in […]

While Breana was a sophomore in high school, she unknowingly met her future husband. Tyrell was a junior, and it was love at first sight. Years down the road, he proposed with a stunning black sapphire ring on a private balcony at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, and Bre still gets goosebumps thinking about […]

Amy loved riding horses as a young girl, and when she graduated from Dental School, she picked it back up as a hobby. She fell in love with attending shows, specifically competing in the reining discipline with her Quarter Horses. She met Jody through some equine friends at a show, as he was a judge […]

Katherine grew up figure skating. James grew up playing hockey. So while Katherine’s best friend tried for months to set them up, she knew that an iceskating rink would be the perfect first date. Katherine and James hit it off right away! Katherine was in her last year of law school in Boston, and James […]