I started in weddings. Boudoir was the work that quietly moved me.

I am Jennifer Marilyn, and I run this studio. Eight years ago I picked up a camera alongside my husband, Michael Anthony, a wedding photographer based in Los Angeles. We shot together across the country, into Europe, into destination weddings I never would have seen otherwise.

Boudoir came later, and it stuck. I started photographing a few brides as a side practice, then a few non-brides, then enough women that it became its own studio. Marilyn Lou is named after my middle name and a quiet love I have always had for the women who shaped what we now call timeless: Bardot, Loren, Hepburn. Not the costumes. The carriage.

The studio runs from two locations. McKinney, Texas is home, where the permanent studio sits about thirty-five minutes north of downtown Dallas. Los Angeles is the second studio, serving clients across Southern California, with sessions at the studio or on location at private residences and curated suites across the LA metro and Orange County. I split my time between the two.

My team is all-female: my hair and makeup artists, my retoucher, my studio manager. That is not a marketing line. It is what the work requires. The day a woman trusts you with a session like this is not a day you compromise on who is in the room.

What you can expect from working with me.

I direct. From the first frame to the last, you will know where to put your hands, how to angle your shoulders, what the light is doing. You do not need any experience in front of a camera to book a session here.

I do not retouch you into someone else. The work is retouched the way film prints used to be: light corrections, dust and distractions removed, skin kept as skin. You will recognize yourself in your album.

I take this work seriously. Most of my clients book once and return years later to mark a new chapter. Some have shot with me at twenty-eight, thirty-five, forty, fifty. The archive a studio builds with a client over time is the part of this work I love most.