Wirken Photography Blog

Kelly and Dan, kindred spirits with  gentle souls. I feel so blessed to be part of their wedding day. Here is Kelly trying to brush the teeth of one of her bridesmaids. Lindsay, Kelly’s best friend since kindergarten, was watching her getting ready for her big day.

One of the favorite things that I like to do for my clients is to photograph them in their own environment they are most comfortable in.  Photographing them at an uncomplicated place that has meaning to them is important to me.  Making it a simple location helps because in the end it is their relationship [...]

Here are some photos that I really love from Catherine and Sean’s engagement photos, there are many more of course, but I can’t put them all in the blog.   Sean and Cat made my job easier by being themselves and showing their true personalities during the photo shoot.

It didn’t happen too often that the future bride-groom and I were wishing for tons and tons of snow for their portrait shoot.  And we were blessed to have the high heaven opened up the sky and gave us what we wished for, the first snow storm in 2011 and the most beautiful mess that [...]

Kelly and Dan are one of the most genuine and kind people that I got a chance to know.  Kelly and Dan live in Virginia, and last Christmas they made a trip back to Kansas City to spend time with their families.  And of course, there is no better place to start the photo shoot… [...]