The Kinship Perspective

photojournalistic wedding/elopement, engagement, and portrait photographer

san diego, california + eugene, oregon + everywhere else

hi. i’m miranda. let’s be friends

Two controversial opinions:

I hope your wedding isn’t the best day of your life.
You should never have a stranger at your wedding!

Why? Well, I believe that your marriage should only grow and mature and get better and better… and that the only strangers you should have at your wedding are wedding crashers (because they make a great story!) not your photographer, who will be with you all day. So in that spirit, here’s what I can promise you:

I'm going to tease your groomsmen to get them to laugh.
I'm going to encourage and calm down your mother… and maybe even your mother-in-law.
I’m going to be your hero with a drink or a safety pin (and possibly the only one who knows how to pin a boutonniere or bustle a dress).
And I’m 100% going to cry during the mother/son dance, because I’ve been in this business for 15+ years and I always do.

I’m not just going to take your photos - I want to be your photographer so that you have an extra friend and wingwoman with you throughout the whole process. I make it my business (literally) to be there for you with vendor recommendations, a tissue, or just the reminder to take a deep breath and live the day.

I’m here because I love helping you curate a space where your only focus is your partner, the vows you’re making, and the new adventure you are about to begin.

Sound good?

As said in the words of the 1950’s beat generation:

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
— Jack Kerouac

The one’s for me are the one’s who are wild about life and want me there with them for it.