About Us

To us photography is more than just images, it’s telling a story, it’s your story.

Chris Flaten
Chris Flaten
Photographer

Infectious smile. Terrible cook. Fun Fact generator.

Hey, Future Bride! We’re Chris and Maddie. We fell in love on our spring break mission trip and were inseparable the rest of college, where we ran two half marthons & ate our weight in cookie dough. After graduation Chris moved to the twin cities to pursue a career in Digtal Marketing Maddie is finishing up pursuing her degree in Graphic Design & Photography/Videography.

We have spent our weekends dreaming about becoming photographers. In 2018, we made the leap, well kind of. We are still working on building a business but it's what we love.

Maddie Nettell
Maddie Nettell
Photographer

Natural encourager. Fan of sweat pants and drawing.

Fun Facts! YAY!

  • We wish it were summer all year round. Nothing beats a crisp evening, a warm fire and time on the water, or in it.
  • I have to label everything with my name and year I got it, so lots of white sharpies.
  • We didn’t actually start doing weddings till 2018, and I’m questioning why we didn’t do it earlier.
  • One of us likes to plan, the other just goes with it. We’ll let you guess which one is which.
  • We meet on a spring break mission trip, spent 9 days on a bus, and didn’t actually talk till after we got back from it.
  • Two years ago we met and became photography soul mates and never looked back.
  • When someone is taking pictures I silently count from the click to shutter fire.
  • One of us like Nikon the other uses Canon, it's a daily fight for who’s right.

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