WHO I AM
Hi, I’m Hayley Jade
I am so happy to have you hear and I hope that you reach out so that I can get to know you! Photography has always been a big part of my life ever since I was 12 and just knew that was something I had to do. There is just something about being able to create artwork with other people also while telling their stories that just brings me so much joy.
I am not even joking when I say that there is nothing else that I would rather do than being able to get to create emotional, storytelling and creative imagery that is unique to all of the amazing couples I get to work with. Being able to serve, help and getting to know you is what drives me and gives me so much life. I just want every couple to have the most amazing experience and to walk away feeling seen, cared for and with imagery that speaks to them.
Nature is one of those things to me that really speaks to me and I always feel most at peace and happy in it. It has given me so many memories and experiences and it has really effected the way I photograph and the importance and attention to detail that I take.
Things I love: Camping, rock hounding, traveling, being in nature, baking bread, any sort of hands on crafts and gardening.
WHY PHOTOGRAPHY
I have had so many jobs in the past and none of them filled me with more joy or felt the least like a job as photography is for me.
Each one of my clients that I work with provide me with such rewarding fulfillment of creating as well as long lasting relationships. I can remember all of my clients very specifically and personally and even love to keep up to date with many of them. This is because with my philosophy of shooting I find that it does form a closeness from and to my clients. I am after all working with my clients to express THEM and their stories.
Most photographers can provide anyone with good images, happy smiling poses… but thats not me. I am not here to pose every couple the same way or even in the same places... or even pose at all. I help create moments and capture those. For me it really is a personalized experience of documenting you in your season of life and creating it in a way with you that years down the line you can feel and remember exactly why and how you felt the way you did.
So why photography? Because I believe your season of life should be documented and not posed or without emotion…. I’ve said it before, I’m here for the raw, the messy and the real.
MY LOVE STORY
Jared and I met on a blind date… yes through a dating app… he HATES to admit this but I think it makes it even more amazing that we found each other. Our first date he picked me up and took me to one of my favorite places, Antelope Island. We went on a little hike while talking about our life, likes and interests and we just CLICKED! I felt like we were inseparable after this. He was similar in the best ways and different in even better ways.
Jared proposed to me at Antelope Island in February 2021 and we got married in May of the same year. We did a intimate ring exchange and lunch at The Sweet Magnolia and married in the Draper Utah Temple. It was such a special day filled with only the closest and best of friends and family. Part of this was due to the many COVID restrictions that were prevalent and made planning difficult but in the end helped me to see what was the most important to me regarding my day. That experience inspired me to want to give every couple I work with a special day cultivated around what is most important to them.
Our wedding photos were taken by The Ashers Photography:
