I met Catie a few months ago my gmail inbox. She sent me an email about her wedding, but not really. She talked about Tim, the love of her life, and about how they were excited to be married. To be surrounded by friends and family in a city where they met and fell head over heels for one another. I was hooked instantly. Catie and Tim are my kind of people. Heartfelt. Authentic. Kind. Super double hilarious. And most of all, they are wildly crazy for each other. Last Thursday night we walked around Tenney Park in Madison, as the sun dipped low in the sky, and we talked and laughed and danced and then laughed some more. Then they sat out on a dock and promised to never give up. Promised to love each other always. Promised that though it would be hard sometimes, their love would always be worth it.

Here are a few frames from our evening together.

I’d like you to meet Jena and Steve. Or, rather, I’d like you to InterMeet them. I promise you’ll want to be their friends. They are the embodiment of all the awesome things people say about amazing couples. They are the kind of people that you fall helplessly in love with the second you meet them. Fun. Energetic. Magnificently kind and warm. Best of all, they are crazy in love. Not in the over-the-top-all-over-each-other-touchy-feely-loud-boisterous way, but rather in a remarkable calm, comfortable, we’re-never-giving-up-on-each-other-no-matter-what kind of way. They are getting married in a little under one month on a Minnesconsin mountaintop, surrounded by their closest friends and family, and I cannot believe I am lucky enough to be with them on their wedding day. These two are magic. But don’t listen to me, see for yourself.

My youngest cousin Todd is getting married next June to an amazing woman, and I couldn’t be more excited to have Chekelea as a cousin-in-law. They are both big Mad Men fans and wanted to capture that in their engagement session, so we spent an hour in one of Minneapolis’ most swanky and 60′s-esque estaurants, Jax Cafe. Chek+Todd, I cannot wait for your June wedding – and I hope you love these images.