Parker and Kevin's wedding was a celebration like no other—a vibrant fall carnival-themed event that perfectly captured their playful spirits and love for adventure. Held at the charming Gala Events in Monroe, Washington, their special day was a delightful blend of romance, fun, and creativity.
Peter and Felix brought one hundred percent of their authentic selves to their wedding at Ray’s Boathouse and their friends and family LOVED it.
If there is one word I could come up with to summarize Akela and Billie’s late summer wedding at Falling Water Gardens, it would be joyful. The whole day these two beauties were smiling and giggling and screaming with laughter. They were giddy in love like it was a potion.
Nick and Franklin’s late summer wedding at Trinity Tree Farms near Seattle was nothing short of fae wonderland dreams.
In the weeks leading up to Wyatt and Miranda’s engagement session I was working myself up into an anxious mess about driving over the pass in late December. Every day I was obsessively watching the weather and the traffic cameras, predicting that the day we were due to do the sesison there would be a freak snow storm that only struck when I was crossing the pass. I actually eneded up borrowing a friends 4x4 just to make sure I was fully prepared. All of which came to nothing because the day I drove over the pass it was gorgeous clear blue skies and though there was snow on the ground there were two “ruts” that were clear to the ground. Basically it was absolutely no bother at all!
When Reyna reached out to me to do a couple session and told me that she was planning to propose to her girlfriend during the session, I was of course VERY excited. We planned the session for a couple months, scoped out a few locations and discussed our strategy for signalling each other that it was time.
Whenever couples tell me they want a varied location for their engagement session, I always suggest Rosario Beach. It’s a little out of the way up by Deception Pass State Park but it’s worth the trip. When I went there last year for an engagement session I thought we’d had the perfect weather for it, but this latest engagement session topped even that!
Back at the beginning of the year I got a new lens and was itching to try it out so I put out a model call on Instagram and one of my photographer friends Jenny GG offered up her and her wife as models. Now at first I was like YES OF COURSE I CAN’T WAIT and then I was like OH MY GOD JENNY GG IS GOING TO BE IN FRONT OF MY LENS.
Backyard weddings really became a thing in 2020 thanks to COVID and it seemed like a lot of people were having them as a sort of compromise, a backup plan. But Cherie & Howie planned their wedding day to be small and intimate from the beginning so it being in their gorgeous backyard didn’t impact it much at all!
Dug & Kerry chose to host their wedding in a local Bellevue park so that all their friends could attend within the restrictions in place. They had custom masks made for all of their guests and individually boxed cupcakes available for guests to take home with them! They were so respectful of their guests while trying to keep a sense of normalcy for their big day.
Dani & Michelle were supposed to be married by now but thanks to that thing they chose to reschedule to 2021, and then 2022 so they could have the wedding they wanted to. But since so much time had passed since their first engagement session, they decided to do a second engagement session at Kerry Park so that their final wedding invitations could include their newest family member!
It might not be a question you think you should ask a wedding photographer, or any kind of photographer really, during your consult but one you probably should: how are you backing up my photos?
For wedding photography especially you are spending a lot of money to get the end images and while yes it is somewhat your responsibility to backup the photos yourself, any photographer worth their salt should be backing up clients photos for years to come. Things happen, and when a client comes back to you and you still have their images, it will make their day. If you don’t, it will ruin yours.
I first met Karissa and Logan back in 2019 at Karissa’s sister Kayla’s wedding that I captured. A few months after Kayla & Tanner said I Do, Karissa reached out to me to see if I could capture her wedding, of course I said yes! Unfortunately then 2020 got in the way and they had to postpone their wedding but we still wanted to capture their engagement session while we were having the beautiful fall weather we had last year.
I was originally set to capture Mike & Josh’s wedding in September in Tacoma but then 2020 happened and they decided to forego a wedding and elope just themselves in Vegas. I wasn’t able to get there due to travel restrictions but they decided they still wanted to do couple photos here at their new home in Yelm
Jordan & Greg got married last summer over at the Brightwater Education Center and I loved capturing their love. So when they reached out and asked if I was free to do some family photos, I immediately said yes.
Kennedy & Eby’s intimate elopement at JM Cellars ended up being my last wedding of the year in 2020 and it was so fitting in all the best ways. Due to Kennedy’s job they had to be very strict with the contact rules which meant everyone had to wear a mask anytime they were within 6 feet of the wedding couple. Obviously this meant we had to adapt to take some photos without masks but even the ones with people wearing masks you can feel their love for Kennedy and Eby coming through the fabric.
Wedding traditions are an odd thing. If you’re already married, you might be wondering why you did certain things on your day. If you’re planning a wedding, you might wonder which you should include. Below I’ve listed the most popular wedding traditions, where they originated and whether I think you should include them in your day. Now remember, these are all based on my own opinions so if you choose to include something I say dump, I won’t be offended. A wedding day is a very personal thing and should be treated as such
I think many people would have a Debbie downer of a day if they had to downsize their wedding due to COVID and then days before it had to downsize again because of wildfires. But you’d never have known that the wedding they had was anything but their original plan if you saw Jay & Josh’s faces on their wedding day. The entire day they both had smiles plastered on their faces and let nothing get them down.
I think Jay & Josh can best be summed up by this story: I told them to walk away from me and then for Jay to lead Josh back to me by the hand. She took this to mean she was leading him like the witch leading Hanzel & Gretel to her house in the woods, complete with creepy walk and laugh. It had us all busting up with laughter because I did not expect it at all. But that is them to a tee, they’re always laughing, always smiling, never serious and they fit together so beautifully because of it.
The only two times I’ve been to Lincoln Park in West Seattle is for lesbian couple elopements, and honestly that’s a record I’m okay continuing as long as they are as adorable as the two I have done already!
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