I’ve always been drawn to my family’s history. From a young age, I spent hours of family gatherings holed up in closets with albums and boxes of letters and images. Flipping through the pages, holding scallop-edged photographs and turning them over to memorize the names of my ancestors sparked in me an interest in documentation. I find myself today doing that
very work, through both writing and photography. Weddings are one of my
favorite places to be with my camera—rivaled only by the process of creating
this weddings issue of White Bear Lake Magazine. I feel I’ve found a kindred spirit in one Emma Sharpe, who is also
entranced by her family history. You can read about the journey of her heirloom wedding dress, which was lovingly altered by Reyna Becerra of Reyna’s Alterations..
Happy stories are such a light in these times, and we’ve devoted this issue
to love stories. Writer Jennifer Pitterle shares the multicultural wedding of White Bear Lake’s Nicholas Langevin to Chơnhạnh VũVân. Landon and Samantha Hopp
