Storyteller Co


The Experience


Your photographs should feel like your life — not a performance of it.

At Storyteller Co, we approach weddings, elopements, proposals, and couples sessions with a documentary eye and an editorial instinct. We aren't interested in turning your day into a series of poses or pulling you away from the people you came to celebrate with. Instead, we pay attention: to the way your partner reaches for your hand, your best friend loses it during the speeches, the light moving across the room, the champagne spilled on the dance floor, and all the little things you didn't know we'd noticed.


Our intentionally inclusive experience is shaped by Kayla & Zoey Love — a queer, trans lesbian wife-and-wife team who believe you should never have to perform your identity, your relationship, or your wedding for the camera. We'll give you direction when it's helpful, space when it's not, and a steady presence throughout the day so you can stay in it.

We describe our process as an elevated game of I-spy; We're looking for the honest, fleeting, beautifully imperfect moments that make your photographs unmistakably yours. Captured on genuine analog film & digital photography alongside optional Super 8mm motion film.

 

Choose Your Experience



Whether you're planning a full Twin Cities wedding weekend, saying your vows at Minneapolis City Hall, celebrating with a restaurant dinner reception, getting engaged somewhere meaningful, or simply want photographs of the two of you as you are right now, there's a Storyteller Co experience for you.

 

Weddings

 

Elopements

 

Proposals & Engagements

 

We're Kayla & Zoey Love of Storyteller Co

We’re Kayla & Zoey Love — queer, trans lesbian wives, former photojournalists, and the people behind Storyteller Co.


Minneapolis is home: MayDay celebrations, Seward Café & Mort’s music sets, brunch at Hard Times, backyard dinner parties, neighborhood restaurants, great food, and a bold, resilient community that loves us for who and how we are. We love this city deeply, and it continually shapes the way we see, work, and live.


We bring that same curiosity and adoration to the people and nuptial celebrations we photograph, always looking beyond the obvious frame — trading heavy direction and cookie cutter posing for the fleeting, funny, tender, beautifully imperfect moments that make your wedding memories truly feel like yours.


We’re here for couples who would rather live within their wedding memories than perform for them. Our work is documentary at heart, editorial in its eye, and intentionally inclusive in its practice — giving you room to be fully yourselves, with minimal direction as needed only when it further adds to your comfort and the final image, and never forgetting the heirloom family portraits mom will put above the mantle.

 

FAQ

Why Do You Photograph On Analog Film?

Because we believe photographs should have a life beyond the technology that created them. We know what 100 years of properly preserved film negatives and darkroom prints can look like. We don't yet know what 100 years of today's digital files, storage systems, hard drives, or cloud platforms will look like. Film gives your memories a physical original — and because you take those negatives home, you'll always have the ability to commission new scans or prints as technology, capabilities, and generations change.

 

Do You Offer Anything Tangible Beyond The Digital Gallery & Negatives?

Yes! Your photographs aren't meant to live exclusively on a screen. Along with your digital gallery, we send Polaroid previews that are scanned immediately and delivered digitally so you can relive some of the star moments right away. The original Polaroids are mailed home with your film negatives and other tangible keepsakes.


Every Storyteller Co experience also includes mail delivery of our signature retro viewfinder complimentary — a completely tangible, physical piece of your wedding story to hold onto, revisit, and share. Additional viewfinders and custom heirloom albums can be commissioned for yourself, friends, parents, and grandparents, too.

 

Do We Get Access To Our Film Negatives

 

Yes — they're yours. We return your developed and scanned film negatives and Super 8 reels to you, along with guidance for storing them safely for the long haul. We believe physical film is an important part of your family's archive, not something that should disappear into a photographer's filing cabinet, and certainly never thrown in the trash. Properly cared for, your negatives and reels can be rescanned, reprinted, and passed down for generations.

 

Who Do You Work With?

We intentionally build our work around people and vendors who believe everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and fully themselves. As queer, trans lesbian wives, this isn't a marketing checkbox for us — it's how we live and how we choose to work. We prioritize couples, planners, venues, and vendor partners who are genuinely affirming of LGBTQ+ people and all gender identities (holding an active vetted interest in the wellbeing of Queer people both in their work and in their daily lives), and we don't participate in environments where that isn't true. Your wedding should be a place where everyone in the room can celebrate freely, and we're committed to helping create that kind of experience.

 

Live Within Your Memories

If The Storyteller Co Experience Feels Like Home To You, We Might Be The Photographers for You!

July 15th, 2026

G & R: Chicago City Hall Civil Ceremony & Tortoise Supper Club Wedding Reception

Elopements & Weddings

June 26th, 2026

N & H: Magical Camrose Hill Flower Farm Wedding in Stillwater, MN

Elopements & Weddings

May 30th, 2026

N & B: Maison Margaux Wedding With After Party At Lonely's Bar in Minneapolis' North Loop

Elopements & Weddings

May 28th, 2026

C & C: Engagement Session Adventuring Around South Minneapolis & the State Fair Grounds For A Minnesota-Loving Couple

Couples & Engagements

May 26th, 2026

A & H: Intimate Multicultural Wedding Ceremony at Minneapolis City Hall + Degidio's Restaurant St Paul Reception

Elopements & Weddings

February 13th, 2026

G & A: Candid City Hall Elopement Ceremony & Private Dinner Celebration on Film

Elopements & Weddings

December 17th, 2025

J & R: Winter Surprise Proposal at the Minneapolis Christkindl Market

Couples & Engagements

November 25th, 2025

A & V: Intimate Minneapolis City Hall Rotunda Civil Ceremony With Grandparents' As The Only Guests & Witnesses

Elopements & Weddings

November 12th, 2025

H & E: Chic Modern Elegance Meets Vintage Charm - A Candid Minneapolis Wedding at Hewing Hotel & Jax Cafe

Elopements & Weddings

October 5th, 2025

Cake Picnic Tour Hits Minneapolis for Betty Crocker's 104th Birthday Bash

Events & Brands

September 12th, 2025

N & S: Perfectly Personal Intimate Wedding Celebration at WA Frost in St Paul, Minnesota

Elopements & Weddings

July 26th, 2025

N & M: Late-Night Chic, Cultural Wedding Reception at Berlin Jazz Bar in Minneapolis' North Loop

Elopements & Weddings

June 24th, 2025

N & L: Personalized Van Dusen Mansion Vietnamese American Fusion Wedding

Elopements & Weddings

June 20th, 2025

H & Z: Rain, Romance & Red - An Intimate Wedding at Como Zoo’s Japanese Gardens

Elopements & Weddings

June 7th, 2025

J & L: Chic Greenery-Filled Orchid & Rose Wedding at the Edward Anne Estate, Bavaria Downs Wedding in Chaska, Minnesota

Elopements & Weddings

May 25th, 2025

E & M: A Minnesota Boat Club Wedding with Getting Ready at The Saint Paul Hotel & Portraits at Union Depot

Elopements & Weddings

May 24th, 2025

E & M: An Intimate Summer Rehearsal Dinner at the Groom’s Childhood Home in Minneapolis

Elopements & Weddings

May 18th, 2025

K & S: Garden Picnic Spring Engagement Session at the MN Landscape Arboretum

Couples & Engagements

May 10th, 2025

J & B: Intimate Wedding at St Paul College Club

Elopements & Weddings

April 19th, 2025

E & M: Romantic & Sun-drenched Engagement Shoot at St Paul's Union Depot

Couples & Engagements

March 8th, 2025

H & E: Snowy Engagement Session at Bruhaven & Around Loring Park Minneapolis

Couples & Engagements

December 31st, 2024

A & M: Adoring, Glitz Filled NYE Wedding Celebration at Minneapolis City Hall & Boludo

Elopements & Weddings

October 12th, 2024

A & A: River Café Wedding in DUMBO Brooklyn, NYC

Elopements & Weddings

September 16th, 2024

S & T: Relaxed Golden Hour Loring Park Minneapolis Engagement Session

Couples & Engagements