Forever Green Studios Blog
Browse through our blog for a closer look into our adventures as Iowa wedding and engagement photographers. You’ll see photos from a variety of wedding venues and engagement locations throughout Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines and beyond.
Best Des Moines Wedding Venues | A Wedding Photographer’s Guide
A Photographers Guide to Des Moines Wedding Venues For all you recently engaged couples out there, here is a list of our favorite Des Moines wedding venues! Choosing a venue is usually the first step in the wedding planning process and it can be overwhelming! And as...
Best Iowa City Wedding Venues | A Wedding Photographer’s Guide
A Photographers Guide to Iowa City Wedding Venues — For all you recently engaged couples out there, here is a list of our favorite Iowa City wedding venues! Choosing a venue is usually the first step in the wedding planning process and it can be overwhelming! And as...
Best Cedar Rapids Wedding Venues | A Wedding Photographer’s Guide
The Best Cedar Rapids Wedding Venues A Photographers Guide to Cedar Rapids Wedding Venues For all you recently engaged couples out there, here is a list of our favorite Cedar Rapids wedding venues! Choosing a venue is usually the first step in the wedding planning...
Cedar Falls Engagement | Main Street and George Wyth State Park | Cassie and Jared
Sunny and 75 Ok let's be real. We LOVE Iowa. But as wedding photographers, we've experienced every possible type of weather when photographing weddings and engagements. Snow, -30 degree windchill, 110 degrees with 95% humidity, thunderstorms, tornados (yes, we are...
Cedar Rapids Wedding | The Olympic South Side Theater Wedding Venue | Styled Shoot
We are so excited for the new Cedar Rapids wedding venue that opened this year! Olympic South Side Theater is located in NewBo District near downtown Cedar Rapids. The event space is newly renovated with a modern elegant style while keeping the original historic...
Chicago Engagement | Union Station and Lincoln Park Conservatory | Shazia and Rob
Snowy February Chicago Engagement Our home base as wedding photographers might be Cedar Rapids, but we LOVE traveling outside of Iowa. Especially to the amazing city of Chicago! We were able to make a little trip out of it and enjoy everything the city has to offer....
Cedar Rapids Wedding | Ashton Hill Wedding Venue | Hanna + Zach
A Chilly February Wedding in Iowa Every wedding photographer loves a sunny and 75 degree day to photograph a wedding. I mean come on, blue skies, a dreamy golden hour, green grass and flowers blooming. What's not to love?! But think about this. Iowa. February. Snow....
Cedar Rapids Wedding | Eastbank Wedding Venue | Leesa + Kyle
Snowy December Wedding in Downtown Cedar Rapids Kyle and Leesa's wedding day is one to remember for a few reasons. Number one, it was approximately -30 degrees on the wedding day. If you're from Iowa, you know this is not an exaggeration, but an actual reality of Iowa...
Cedar Rapids Engagement | Palisades-Kepler State Park | Claire + Aaron
Colorful Fall Engagement at Palisades-Kepler State Park Leave it to Iowa for it to snow in October!! Just the day before we were scheduled to take Claire and Aaron's engagement pictures, we got a couple inches of snow. But lucky for us, we still got in a full session...
Cedar Rapids Engagement | Indian Creek Nature Center | Ashley + Camden
Golden Hour Fall Engagement at Indian Creek Nature Center All of the stars aligned for Ashley and Camden's October engagement session at Indian Creek Nature Center! Fall colors (Iowa has some of the best), crisp temperatures and the most perfect golden hour. While our...
Cedar Rapids Wedding | Ashton Hill Farm | Kelsey + Ryan
Dark and Moody Outdoor Iowa Wedding It was a beautiful sunny and 70 degree September day for Kelsey and Ryan's wedding. Aside from a brief rain shower in the afternoon, we had the best possible conditions for an outdoor Iowa wedding at Ashton Hill Farm wedding venue...
Des Moines Wedding | Teachout Events Wedding Venue | Holly + Jeremy
When two architects get married, it makes sense that they would have the most beautifully designed wedding! Holly + Jeremy got married on a sunny August day at Teachout Events Wedding Venue in the heart of Des Moines' East Village. We started their day at the newly...