My favorite locations for family photos aren’t the beach or the park. The most meaningful images that I create come from In-home family photos. It consists of kids dancing in their bedrooms, dad’s pushing kids on the swings, and moms soaking up the fleeting hugs. Michaela Kessler Photography | Family and wedding photographer in Erie, […]

As a photographer I never 100% knew what my couples were going through as they were planning a wedding. Simply, because I had never done so myself. But now I am planning a wedding and I want to share all the ways I’ve been saving and making the most of the our budget during wedding […]

I still CANNOT get over this wedding, it may be one of my favorites! I don’t know how so many brides are handling all the changed due to a world wide pandemic so gracefully. But these two made it work so perfectly. They started this new chapter together by planting roots on her family’s farm. […]

I am SO excited to share this leap day winter wedding. It was such a beautiful day. We were really hoping for snow and just a few days before it was sunny and 50 out. Thankful for the crazy Erie weather working in our favor! Right on Christmas eve Sara messaged me about her wedding […]

AREN’T YALL SICK AND TIRED OF PAYING CRAZY AMONTS OF MONEY FOR WEDDINGS? These crazy $30,000+ weddings are stressful, overrated, wasteful, and full of other people’s opinions. I am going to let you in on a secret… your wedding doesn’t have to be as much as a house downpayment. *Gasp* I am going to walk […]