Who I am…

I’m Hailes, your traveling wedding & elopement photographer, but I am so much more than that. I grew up traveling and spent most of my college years traveling the world for mission work. I’ve been to Kenya, West Africa, Nicaragua, Nepal & Thailand for mission trips, with my church & independently. But I have also traveled all over Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America for myself, so can you trust me to travel and help you plan your travel? I sure hope so! I’m a gal of many talents, okay but really… I can’t whistle, BUT I can rap every word to 25 to life by Eminem without missing a beat. I also have over 100 tattoos, so I guess you can say I truly do not have commitment issues!! I have a love for Game of Thrones & Sons of Anarchy (guess that explains why I married a man who looks like Jax Teller hehe). But most importantly, I am human. I am perfectly imperfect, and I have been in your shoes. I also was a bride, who eloped in Colorado with 20 of our closest friends & family. I know the stress and fun of planning an entire wedding for 150 people and having it canceled 4 weeks before & having to plan a new thing in under a month.. yep! That happened to my husband and me!

I am also a mom, to two beautiful angel babies and to one earthside baby. They are a part of who I am, and I carry all 3 of them with me always. I know pain, I know heartbreak, I know happiness, and grief and joy. I know it all because I have walked through it. So when I say you can trust me with your relationship, with your feelings, I truly do mean it, I understand.

I married my best friend in May of 2019, where we thought we were having a spring wedding but Colorado said NOPE and gave us snow instead. It was the opposite of what I thought it would be, and I wouldn’t change anything about it. Tay and I met in 2017 at a 4th of July party and he instantly friend-zoned me… yep.. you heard that right!! About a year later his tour bus broke down & I went to see my friend, Sam, not knowing Tay was there, and we re-connected. After dating only 6 months he proposed on New Year’s Eve and we got married 5 months later! We lived in Virginia before moving out to Colorado and then made our move to Georgia to be near family while we walk through becoming new parents.