We have been together for over a DECADE. I know, that sounds absolutely insane to me!

We met when we were in high school through a mutual friend in 2010 and have been inseparable ever since. We tied the knot in 2013. 

We have so many hobbies that it's hard to list them all. We really are one of those couples that loves all of what life has to offer. However, we really enjoy spending time with our friends, working out together in our home gym, exploring outdoors and late nights on our xbox.  

We love to travel! The world is such a beautiful place and when we get to share that with our three girls, we soak in of every bit of it! As parents who are all about memories, we try to make as many as we can for us and our children.

We are Alicia and Tucker, the husband and wife team behind Onyx and Sage Studios.

What we create here is deeply intentional. This work is about trust, presence, and creating a space where people feel safe enough to be fully seen. Boudoir is not about perfection. It is about connection. To yourself, to your body, and sometimes to the person standing beside you.

Everything we do inside The Onyx Haus is guided by that belief.

Before OUR deep story begins

QUICK FUN FACTS ABOUT US

I’m Alicia’s husband, associate photographer, and lead videographer at Onyx & Sage Studios. I never imagined myself in this world until I picked up a camera and realized I could capture my wife the way I saw her. Strong, beautiful, and alive. That moment changed everything.

Before this, I served six years in the military with a deployment to Iraq and Kuwait, and today I continue to serve as a volunteer firefighter. Service has always been in my blood, but now I get to serve in a different way. By helping people see themselves with the kind of love and awe they deserve.

Outside the studio, life is all about family. I love spending time with Alicia, hunting, gaming, and chasing PokémonGo adventures with our girls. But my favorite thing will always be creating memories with them and helping our clients create proof of their own.

A FEW WORDS FROM US:

Meet Alicia and Tucker

If you’ve read our “Why,” thank you. Our story is the reason I’m here, doing this work, and it’s the heartbeat behind everything I create. Without walking through those chapters, I don’t know where I’d be.

A little about me personally: I’m a Libra, forever chasing balance and beauty. I dabble in astrology (beginner-level at best), but I love how it reminds me that I’m always evolving. For a long time, “figuring myself out” felt overwhelming. Now I see it as something powerful, a reminder that I get to keep growing, shifting, and becoming every single day.

When I’m not behind the camera, you’ll usually find me with Tucker, jumping into a good COD game or being in the sun. My happy place is anywhere near water, preferably on a beach with sun on my skin. But don’t expect me to casually swim in the ocean. (I’ve seen Jaws.)

One of the questions we are asked most often is how we found our way into boudoir, and why we chose to specialize in something so intimate.
The answer is personal.

We are parents to three beautiful daughters, and like many parents, photography began as a way to document fleeting moments. My mother gifted me my first camera, never knowing it would eventually become a lifeline back to myself.

Along the way, we experienced seven miscarriages. With each loss, I felt myself growing more disconnected from my body and from the woman I once recognized. I was showing up for everyone else while quietly losing my relationship with myself.

At one point, I looked in the mirror and realized I no longer felt at home in my own skin.
That realization led me to book my first boudoir session as a way to reconnect. Before the session arrived, I miscarried again and developed sepsis that required emergency surgery. I almost cancelled. My body felt fragile and unfamiliar, and grief made hiding feel easier than being seen.
But I showed up anyway.

In that space, something shifted. For the first time, I saw myself through a lens of compassion instead of loss. I saw strength alongside grief. Presence instead of absence.
That moment changed the trajectory of my life and my work.

Our Story and Why We Chose Boudoir

I have been shooting boudoir since 2017 and knew without question that this was my calling. This work asks for emotional fluency, intuition, and the ability to connect beyond words. Those are spaces I have always understood, and boudoir became the place where that understanding could finally be used with intention. This work eventually expanded beyond just me.

In 2020, while working on a self portrait project and feeling creatively stuck, Tucker offered to help. Not because he had a background in photography, but because he saw how deeply this work lit me up.

I handed him my camera, and what happened next surprised us both.

He photographed me with care, patience, and presence. He asked questions. He studied. He practiced relentlessly. He approached photography the same way he approaches everything else in his life, with intention and respect.

Within months, it became clear he was not just helping. He had found his own passion for this work.

We began shooting together, photographing friends, models, and clients who trusted us with their stories. Since then, Tucker has photographed dozens of women and couples, building a reputation for creating calm, comfortable, and joy filled sessions.

This work became something we share. Not just as artists, but as partners.

How This Work Became Shared

THE FOUNDERS OF ONYX AND SAGE STUDIOS

What It Feels Like to Work With Us

We know boudoir is deeply intimate.

For some clients, working one on one with Alicia feels most aligned, and that is always honored. For others, welcoming Tucker into the space adds an unexpected layer of connection and perspective.

Two viewpoints. Shared artistry. Always guided by consent, comfort, and respect. Tucker’s presence (optional always) is warm and grounding. His priority is and always will be client comfort.
Every session is approached with care, patience, and attunement
to what each person needs in that moment.

Together, we have witnessed
  eyes light up when self love is rediscovered, 
partners reconnect through shared vulnerability, 
mothers embracing bodies that have carried life
People of every age and background realizing they are worthy right now.

Every single day, we are grateful for the immense trust our clients place in us.

The Onyx Haus

The Onyx Haus is not just a studio.
It is a space designed to hold you.

It is where time slows down.
Where you are guided, supported, and never rushed.
Where you do not have to perform or pretend.
This experience is about being present in your body
 and allowing yourself to be seen exactly as you are.

Our passion is you.
Your story.
Your why.

And we cannot wait to tell it with you.

EXPERIENCE