Lea and Stephen’s Vancouver, Washington wedding was a small, family affair with a lot of personal touches. From a bagpiper to Scottish dancing to brooch bouquet made by Lea’s cousin, there were many personal touches. And there was even a Skype guest to watch the wedding remotely from Scotland. I love small weddings where everyone knows each other!I also loved that they used their engagement picture as the background for the vase during the sand ceremony!
Other vendors: Catering and DJ by Company Tonight
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Brooch Bouquet
Some Scottish Dancing!
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I had a chance to photograph my good friend Duane’s wedding in Mexico in the small village of Playa Litibu just North of Puerto Vallarta. It was really fun to be in Mexico with a bunch of my friends, and to shoot their wedding on top of that. Amanda wore a radiant red dress that looked amazing against the Mexican background, it was so awesome to see her walking down the beach to meet Duane at the altar. After the sun set Duane and Amanda pulled out some Thai lanterns and gave them to all the guests to release into the sky, it was awesome!
Caterer: My Mexican Kitchen
Band: Blue Shoes
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Happy new year guys! It has been a crazy year with trips to Dominican Republic, Istanbul, Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, Sayulita, Maui Hawaii, Yosemite, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix, and I hope the next year will be even more fun!
ps. here are two new year’s weddings!
New Year’s Eve Wedding of Jill and Robert at Governor Hotel
Portland Art Museum New Year’s Eve Wedding of Alexis and Christ
Wendy and Jeff’s wedding day was so much fun! It just happened to be a ferociously windy day! Crown Point was so windy that 20 minutes before the wedding, they decided to move their ceremony from Crown Point Park overlooking the Columbia River Gorge to the beautiful grounds of the Riverview Restaurant on the banks of the Sandy River.
We still got up there after the ceremony with the whole wedding party in a stretch Hummer, it was breathtaking. Once we returned to the restaurant the entire place was decorated with an array of beautiful arrangements from Sammy’s Flowers. To cap the evening off everybody enjoyed great food and dancing. Riverview Restaurant is a great setting and the staff was very friendly!
Guests and family can see the full set of pictures here. Please ask for the password from the couple.
Flowers: Sammy’s Flowers
Reception Location/Caterer: Riverview Restaurant
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Jessica and Timothy’s wedding started at the Avalon Hotel & Spa in the South Waterfront with Jessica getting ready with her bridesmaids. Jessica and all the girls then took a limousine to the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens to finish getting readyfor the wedding and meet the boys. The huppah (the canopy) that Jessica had chosen to cover the two during the ceremony was actually her grandmother’s, which was very neat. After the Jewish wedding ceremony we walked throughout the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens, taking some fun images of the couple, then came the wedding reception. The wedding reception was filled with tons of dancing, which all led up to the hora (the chair dance), a Jewish tradition, which is always fun to photograph especially when you see the look on the couples faces when they are lifted into the air. Media Jockeys kept the dance floor filled!
Ready Location: Avalon Hotel & Spa
Ceremony/Reception Location: Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
Caterer: Catering By Laurie
Baker: As you Wish Events
DJ: Media Jockeys
Florist: Mayfly Flowers
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Here is a cool photography exhibit I learned about. I love old style architecture, and Portland has plenty of historic homes. My last three places were on average 95 years old. Architectural Heritage Center also has some great workshops. Check it out.
First Friday at the AHC!
This Friday, May 1st 4pm - 6pm
Photography Exhibition
and Sale Historic homes are about more than great exterior details: dentils and rafter tails, leaded glass, and Ionic columns… they’re also about how their owners fit comfortably into the timeless styles and atmosphere that these homes embody. The Irvington Home Tour has been showing folks this intimate aspect of historic homes for over 40 years, with over 1000 visitors each year personally touring historic homes in the neighborhood.
Since 2002, the Tour has documented the great interiors that those visitors saw, in photos on its website:, where tens of thousands of additional visitors each year see beautifully restored interior spaces and the furnishings that make them “home”.
Now for a brief time you can seen those photo images as they were meant to be seen — in lushly printed photographic prints, not in tiny web images — at a photo exhibit running the month of May at the Architectural Heritage Center. To launch the exhibit, the Irvington Home Tour Committee has joined with the AHC to present a free “First Friday” Home Tour Photographs event this Friday, May 1, from 6pm to 8pm at the AHC, 701 SE Grand Ave., Portland. Light refreshments will be served.
Approximately 50 images will be on display at this event, including historic images from the early days of Irvington. All images will be available for sale at the First Friday event. 15% of all sales will be donated to the AHC and the remainder of profits to the Irvington Community Association’s Charitable Giving Program.
I am finally in the office, and working as hard as I can to finish all the weddings before Christmas. Look for many weddings to be posted tomorrow!
My car stuck in snow…
