Portland Oregon Wedding and Portrait Photographer
Here is a sneak preview to Jennifer and Seth’s Wedding. It is always fun to photograph McMenamins Edgefield Weddings. They have many charming little details to make the wedding memorable. I will be posting more from this McMenamins Edgefield wedding at the Little Red Shed Amphitheater soon!
Here are some quick pictures as a preview for Jamie and Jordan’s wedding at the gorgeous Mt. Hood Bed and Breakfast. The catering was by Simpatica and they did a great job. One of the highlights was the amazing pie’s. Serving pie instead of cake is becoming more popular, and from what I tasted so far, I have no problem with that!
This is first of the series of sneak peeks from my weddings from my last Mexico trip. Amber and Matt tied the knot at Villa de Roja, which is directly on Playa de San Francisco. Beautiful location! The reception was at the amazing Mar Plata Restaurant, run by Bruno. Mar Plata is one of the best restaurants I have been to, so if you are in the Sayulita, Punta Mita, Bucerias, Puerto Vallarta or Nuevo Vallarta area, make sure to visit them.
Here is the coolest thing: the wedding party was followed by a super friendly dog the whole week, and he invited himself to the wedding and the reception too. In fact, the doggie was so loved, Amber and Matt adopted the doggie and he is arriving in US soon!
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!
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!
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.
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!
