Intimate family legacy sessions · Northern Michigan

Home as it is

The life you said I do to.

The heart of it

Phones keep the daily memories. This keeps the real ones.

Our phones will always hold the everyday, but they quietly pull us out of the moments we are trying to keep. This session is an invitation to put the phone down and simply be present, while someone else documents it all.

Home is not only a house. It is the people you love and watch grow. We can begin in your living room, or at the place that already holds your story: the lake you swim every summer, your grandparents' farm, the trail you walk on Sunday mornings.

No perfect setting needed. Just your people, as they are.

What home means

A legacy written in the ordinary

I.

Wherever home is

Your living room, the lake cottage, grandma's kitchen, the orchard you visit every fall. If it feels like home, it belongs in your story.

II.

Side by side

Not posed in a row. Gently guided into the rituals you already share, so the images look and feel like your life.

III.

Fully present

You live it; I document it. For once, everyone is in the picture, including you.

The experience

From hello to heirloom

01

Inquire

Tell me about your people, the season you are in, and the place that feels like home. We choose the collection and a date that fits.

02

Prepare

You receive the Home As It Is guide: soft palettes of nudes, whites, light blue and sage, and how to get ready without staging a thing.

03

Live it

We start slow and settle in. Phones away, real moments gently guided, wherever you feel most yourselves.

04

Keep it

Your online gallery arrives, and for album collections, an heirloom album to hold, share and hand down.

Life won't pause. Photographs will.

We turn your moments into legacy

The collections

Choose your season

Every collection is an intimate session at home or in a place that feels like home, created to document your family as it is, with the people you love and watch grow.

For families who want to try it

The Moment

$750

60 minutes at home or a place you love
40+ edited images
Online gallery
Home As It Is style & prep guide

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Most loved · two seasons, one story

Every Season

$1,660or 4 payments of $415

A spring session and a fall session
60 minutes each, 40+ images per session
One heirloom album with both seasons side by side
Priority booking for spring and fall dates

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For families marking a season

The Chapter

$1,150

90 minutes at home or a place you love
60+ edited images
8x8 heirloom album, 20 pages
A letter to the future, printed inside

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We loved working with Marcela for family photos. She put us all at ease and the images are beautiful!

★★★★★ Rachel E. · Family Session

Marcela is an absolute diamond! She went above and beyond to curate a unique photoshoot for our family and captured every detail flawlessly. We will cherish them forever!

★★★★★ Jacqueline R. · Family Session

We couldn't be happier with the results! We will cherish these pictures for a lifetime and are so incredibly thankful.

★★★★★ Brianna F. · Maternity Session

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