Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2014 | Page 25

It was a rather audacious goal: photograph 50 weddings in 50 states in 50 weeks. But Jonathan and Michelle Oxley Hoffner ’07 dedicated 2012 to pulling off what they called the Fifty Nifty project. The couple has long connected their wedding photography business to deeper causes. Through their latest project, they donated $1,000 per wedding to help open a safe house for victims of sex trafficking in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The Hoffners typically shoot between 20 to 25 weddings in a given year. But they loaded up their Honda Fit, put their Minneapolis apartment on Craigslist, and hit the road. They put 50,000 miles on their car—and one weekend even flew coast-to-coast for b