Many people do not know that a place like the Grotto exist in Portland. This beautiful 62 acre Catholic Shrine and botanical garden, also known as The National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother, is located near 82nd and Sandy, and is truly a world away from the surroundings. You can even take an elevator to a second level with gorgeous views and more amazing gardens. The Grotto only allows one wedding per week, and I had the chance to photograph there last week. It was a beautiful setting with some truly great weather.
The following is a quick selection from last week’s wedding. Vesna and Tony later moved the party to Portland Art Museum Kridel Grand Ballroom, decorated beautifully by Vibrant Table. There were multiple bands, one of which was Tony’s band. It was a musical feast to say the least!
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One of the joys of being a wedding photographer at Portland is that we have some amazing and diverse locations to shoot within an hour of the city. One such location is Kruger’s Farm Market. Kruger’s Farm is a beautiful working farm / market at Sauvie Island, most known for the pumpkin picking, summer concerts or the corn maze, but they also do weddings, and it is a beautiful background for a classic Oregon style wedding. Allison and Michael’s wedding was one of those beautiful weddings. They even had a fire dancer come to do a cool show! The chocolate covered strawberries were very tasty (they insisted I try one 
). The bridal party arrived to wedding on friendly Farmer Don’s tractor. Their ring bearer was their dog they adopted from Humane Society.
Here is a quick selection of images. Check back the blog for the full wedding in couple weeks!
Vendor reviews:
Coordinator/ Wedding Planner: Emee with EJP Events. As always, she did a great job. She was working very hard!
Catering / Food: Vibrant Table - Amazing food. You can’t go wrong with Vibrant Table.
Make-up: Katherine from Event Cosmetics / Bridal Loft. Katherine is fun and always does an amazing job. She even stayed around to freshen the makeup under the hot weather! I love working with her!
Transportation: Farmer Don - total gentleman - Michael wanted to pose on the tractor and he was cool with that!
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Here are couple quick ones from Vanessa and Ozgur’s Turkish style wedding at Timberline Lodge. David, Vanessa’s father, walked her down the aisle with Mt. Hood as the backdrop. Vanessa speaks Turkish quite fluently and was leading the belly dances on the dance floor while Ozgur did a great job dancing to Michael Jackson. More pictures coming soon when we finish editing the whole wedding.
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I did some portraits of the super cute Gabby, a fantastic 1 year old with great parents! I love taking baby pictures, especially using natural light. I am really not a big fan of the standard studio background portraits because I love capturing children at their natural state.
I am especially in love with vintage looking portraits so that is an area I will be working on that style even more!By the way, I have some great news - my new portrait website is coming online soon with some great shots. To celebrate, I am offering $150 off my portraits. We have very limited spaces available this summer so please contact us to reserve your space!
I will post more from this session in couple days, so stay tuned.
Just a quick pick from Arian’s engagement session yesterday!
April and Michael had a great wedding at Mt Hood Bed & Breakfast, located 30 minutes from the Columbia River Gorge. This was my first time at Mt. Hood Bed & Breakfast. I think it is a gorgeous location for outdoor weddings that have a very “Oregon” feel, similar to some other great outdoor locations like Bridal Veil and Camp Colton.
Here are some quick picks that caught my eye. I am keeping some of the best shots for later! The full wedding will be coming up soon!
Premier Catering did a great jo, there were oysters with BBQ sauce and some grilled shrimp kebabs.
Espresso Bar - this little guy got a chocolate drink
Butterflies were all around!
Cool mike!
Here are some photos from Crystal and David’s wedding at Liberty Theater in Puyallup, Washington. Keep in mind that these are not fully edited, nor they are my favorites - just some samples to share while I am editing the whole wedding!
Thanks Crystal and David - we had a great time at your party!
Last Saturday, Christina and Milto had a full on Greek wedding at Portland Art Museum Kridel Ballroom - it was a high energy wedding full of emotion. The ceremony was at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. Here are some quick picks from the wedding:
The single ladies names are written on Christina’s shoe.
The guests throwing lavender buds on the happy couple!
Milto’s mother singing a few songs to the guests.
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