Jojo & Stephen | Classic Pfister Hotel Wedding » Heather Cook Elliott Photography

Stephen & Jojo are so incredibly loved. Not only do they love one another – wonderfully, ardently, wholly – they are beloved by their parents, many friends and, after their wedding weekend filled all those around them with a sense of awe and delight, a few photogs I know, too. They have been gifted much in life and they use the knowledge of those gifts as a motivator to do more for others, to be kinder than expected, to be grateful, always grateful and even when it seems impossible, to be ever more grateful. Stephen is from Pennsylvania and Jojo is a hometown Milwaukeean, but they share a mutual passion for Wisconsin sports and their story starts (more or less) with Madison Tennis and wanders through Milwaukee’s Old World Third Street, onto a whirlwind week falling in love before she moved to NY, and back around to building careers in medicine and broadcasting before settling here, on the weekend where they became a family in their own right. And man-oh-man do they have the most amazing examples of what family can be to model their own after. They come from wonderful ones that adore them and that they adore, the kind of families where a grandpa can be your best friend and a sister-in-law pretty quickly drops the in-law part. Where moms and dads beam with pride when they talk about their children and where tradition and faith are embraced and wholly celebrated. And so, it was no surprise that Jojo & Stephen’s wedding day was a stunningly beautiful affair where the overflowing amount of orchids (almost) matched the love in the room and where every elegant and delightful detail was as considered as they are considerate. I can’t imagined a couple more worthy of the experience that Stephen & Jojo’s team designed for and with them; in short, it was an epic day for an epic love story.