Wedding Advice & Photography

Two things we are confident in: Wedding Planning & photography. Van Elk & Co is made up of a team of photographers who love to create portraits of love & happiness and share advice for wedding couples.

This isn't your typical photography blog. We share useful info for couples who are getting married and those who are heading that direction. Let us show you pretty things while you fill your head with all things wedding planning.

September 30, 2015

FILED IN: Engagements

Notre Dame alumni, Jack and Louann, chose to have their engagement session on the University of Notre Dame du Lac’s campus. Steve and I met them off campus, and then embarked on a lovely walk through campus with the two of them. As we walked, pausing to take pictures in places with beautiful light, Jack […]

September 29, 2015

FILED IN: Weddings

As Sam and Rochelle prepared to cut their wedding cake, the waning light of the sun trickled through gaps between the barn’s thick, wood board siding, creating lovely golden lines of sunlight on the floor of the barn at Morgan Acres. I stood on wooden timbers that had been cut down over 150 years ago […]

September 27, 2015

FILED IN: Engagements

Every year we try to give away a few engagement sessions. This year Traci and Dan were our winners of an engagement session! We chose to do the engagement session at the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park: 100 Acres, part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Every time I write about doing a […]

September 26, 2015

FILED IN: Senior Pictures

girl in tank top stands with hands on hip and backlit by sun by Prairie Creek Reservoir in Muncie senior portraits

The late afternoon sun reflected off the surface of the Prairie Creek Reservoir. The result was a lot of beautiful warm light all around the reservoir. Holly sat on a small wooden dock in front of the reservoir in the glow of the reflected light. I loved shooting these Muncie senior portraits with Holly and […]

September 23, 2015

FILED IN: Engagements

As the sun was setting over The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park: 100 Acres, Bill and Megan left the 100 Acres Park and headed across the canal on their way back to their car for a quick clothing change during their engagement shoot. As they walked hand-in-hand up a service road and under […]

September 22, 2015

FILED IN: Weddings

“A peerless princess thou shalt be,Through wit of love’s rare sorcery“-James Whitcomb Riley from his poem Some Songs After Master Singers Cheralyn approached Jordon on the mezzanine of the Hilton Garden Inn, outside of the James Whitcomb Riley room in which she and her bridesmaids had prepared themselves for the wedding day. The soft light […]

September 21, 2015

FILED IN: Weddings

Matt took Shelby by the arms and stood with poise in the middle of the ballroom on the top floor of the regal Columbia Club in downtown Indianapolis. The Columbia Club overlooks Monument Circle, and the beautiful Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in the middle of the circle, but not a single guest could be found […]

September 18, 2015

FILED IN: Engagements

Collan held Caroline, their foreheads touching, in front of the venerable Sanctuary on Penn. The light reflecting off the the building’s aged profile was folded back on itself in my prism, reflecting the arch at the back entrance on itself, creating a diamond held askew in a never-ending sky, free from the shackles of this […]