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Iowa and Midwest Wedding Photographer // Dream List for Engagements or Elopements

Everyone has their own bucket list, and photographers have two— their personal one, and their business bucket list!!! This girl has a looooong list of locations that I can currently only dream of traveling to for the purpose of photographing a proposal, engagement, or even “elopement” style wedding! I don’t know that my list has ever formally been shared on the blog before… so I’m laying it out now and throwing it into the world wide web! Maybe, just maybe, someone I know will decide to take me up on a destination engagement (or anniversary or wedding!) session. Because you really don’t have to look far for some really epic spaces!


United States of America Destination Wedding/Engagement Dream List

  • Thorncrown Chapel (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)

  • Big Sur (California)

  • Joshua Tree (California)

  • Redwood National Park (California)

  • Nā Pali-Kona Forest Reserve (Waimea, Hawai’i)

  • Oahu (Hawai’i)

  • Glacier National Park (Montana)

  • New York City

  • Canon Beach (Oregon)

  • South and North Carolina- mountains or beaches!!

  • Zion, Arches, and Moab National Parks (Utah)

Iowa & Midwest Destination

Wedding/Engagement Dream List

  • Terry Trueblood (Iowa City, Iowa)

  • Grotto of the Redemption (West Bend, Iowa)

  • Loess Hills (Iowa/Nebraska)

  • Badlands National Park (South Dakota)

  • Madeline Island (Bayfield, Wisconsin)

  • Mark Twain National Forest (Viburnum, Missouri)


Worldwide Destination List

  • Banff National Park, Canada

  • Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

  • Cuba

  • Greece

  • Iceland

  • Japan

  • Moraine Lake (Alberta, Canada)

  • Morocco

  • Moscow, Russia

  • South Africa

  • South of France

  • Switzerland

  • Paris, France

  • Puerto Rico

  • Vancouver, Canada


If any of the places on this list sound like fun to you, don’t be afraid to reach out! I would be more than thrilled to capture your life, anywhere in the world. Adventures can happen in our own backyard… but they don’t have to be limited to that, either. Your life is a wild story, waiting to be shared and captured! Let me help you with that. :) (And feel free to add to my list. If we can get there by plane, train, or boat… I’m DOWN!!!)