Many of you know Katie, as she photographed likely a couple of hundred weddings with me over the years! What you may or may not know, is that Katie is my person. There’s people who accept you, and there’s people who understand you. I’ve always felt a little misunderstood and I seem to feel more and more so, the older and weirder I get.
When I explain myself to a lot of people I find myself just ending my efforts with “nevermind I’m just weird.” With Katie, she finishes my sentence and I say “yes, exactly…precisely” She understands that I am strange in my way of thinking, that I have an insatiable desire for perfection, busyness and challenge. She somehow understands that I enjoy suffering and enduring a prep, becoming orange and having some random person judge me on my outward aesthetics of my physique. She truly understands my struggles and my hardships. She gets me. You might have plenty of people who accept who you are, but you’ll be lucky to find just one who understands you.
Over the years, we’ve talked about the day I’d get to photograph her and Aaron with a baby. That is a dream these two fought incredibly hard to realize and never gave up on. On his first birthday, that dream became a reality and I got to photograph sweet Lucas, Katie + Aaron together. This is the Moeller Family.