Portland Oregon Wedding and Portrait Photographer
Kate and JC had a very memorable wedding celebration at Oceanside Community Club! It was in Oceanside, and full of marine and Hawaiian themes! It was a beautiful day with gorgeous weather. They also brought in fire dancers, hula dancers and had a doggie ring bearer!
Hula Dancing: O.H.A.N.A. Foundation
Flowers: Sunflower Flats
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Fire Dancer at a wedding!
Julie and Jonathan had their rehearsal dinner at Calypso Restaurant in the heart of Sayulita, Mexico. Calypso is an amazing place with great food that’s perfect for these gatherings. The next day we headed to the beautiful Villa De Oso for the wedding. What a spectacular venue! We got a chance to work with our friends at Sayulita Dream Weddings, they are great! The wedding was a mix of Mexican fiesta with Jewish traditions, basically a lot of fun. To top off the evening there was a cool fireworks display and a sweet ice cream and candy bar!
Venue: Villa De Oso
Rehearsal Dinner Location: Calypso Restaurant
Coordinator: Sayulita Dream Weddings
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Looking Glass. If you look closely you can see Julie and Jonathan.
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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Their wedding was at Don Pedros palapa overlooking the Playa Los Muertos in Sayulita, Mexico. After the ceremony the party began to kick off with tons of wild dancing, tequila, a pinata, tacos, and fireworks! Yazmin from Sea of Dreams Wedding did a great job! One of my favorite pictures is Matt seeing Monica in her dress for the first time. You can see it below!
Venue: Don Pedros palapa
Coordinator: Yazmin Gizeh Ramirez Camacho (Sea of Dreams Wedding coordinator)
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Here are some pictures from their amazing night:
Janna and Giovanni came out to the West coast to celebrate their wedding at the Heceta Head Lighthouse. The setting was amazing, especially with the dramatic clouds and the natural beauty of the Oregon coast. There was a lot of dancing and amazing food prepared by the staff of the Bed and Breakfast.
Venue and Catering: Heceta Head Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast.
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Susan and Ted were married on the beach near their family’s home near Proposal Rock in Neskowin, Oregon at the Oregon Coast. Their wedding was so much fun as all their friends and family lent a hand in making sure the day was amazing. All the decorations were so colorful, it truly was mirror image of their personality.
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Caterer: Crave Catering
Their Rings
Christy and Brian decided to have their wedding at a beautiful, sunny location - Maui, Hawaii!
The wedding was set at the beach - right before Christy started walking down the “aisle”, a very short rain came down. It was all worth it though because there was a spectacular rainbow! You can see it below! During the reception, the catering manager pulled out his ukelele and started singing - what a beautiful voice!
A wedding in Maui was also a great reason for the guests to visit Hawaii! Since it was such an intimate group, everybody had a great time!
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Cake: Ghiselani Cakes
Caterer: Larry Mischle
Officiant: Pia Aluli
Florist: Awesome Blossom
Mazatlan is my new favorite spot in Mexico I think. I am so glad Amy & Matt chose us as their Mazatlan wedding photographer at Mayan Sea Garden so we could visit this beautiful city in Mexico. It is a city of 400k people, and primarily the industry is either Mazatlan weddings, shrimp fishing or tourism (biggest shrimps I ever seen!)
Amy is one of those brides who is low key but super organized. Everything was well planned, but you never got the feeling that there was an ounce of stress the entire time. She created a wonderful Mazatlan travel guide with her mom, and it was better than any travel book on Mazatlan I ever seen. I will be posting it here so other Mazatlan brides can use it for their Mazatlan wedding or just as a Mazatlan wedding travel guide! We also joined the wedding party for a great Mazatlan city tour the day before the Mazatlan wedding and also at the rehearsal dinner. Homey, who is a licensed travel guide, is a good friend of the family and is very knowledgeable and friendly, and he showed us all over the city. Since we had a day after session planned (I will post that later), he also took notes of places I liked.
We stayed at the Pueblo Bonito Mazatlan (a sister resort to Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay) and zipped around town in the fun Pulmonia’s, the open air taxis that literally mean pneumonia in Spanish. So much fun! Pueblo Bonito Mazatlan is a nice resort, with kitchen in rooms, so that was great for some cooking, but next time I will book the Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay - it is so amazing.
The wedding day, we took the pulmonia to the Mayan Sea Garden. It is a beautiful resort, in Nuevo Mazatlan. We took some pictures of Amy and Matt getting ready, a few group shots and then to the reception. Amy looked beautiful and Matt had some tears when they first saw each other. It was a great day for photography. The sunset wedding ceremony was officiated by Pastor Jorge, another long time friend of Amy’s parents, and he sang a beautiful song to them (and later to his wife too, what a great voice!). Both ceremony and reception were at Mayan Sea Garden.
The rest of the day was punctuated by a gorgeous sunset. Amy, Matt and Sydney took a little time off from the wedding and went to the beach at sunset and we got some great shots there too. Mariachi’s were playing some great music to set the ambiance. One of the mariachi’s also decided to taste the cake a little ahead of time - I caught him in the act, check out the photos below! The cake was decorated with sea shels and a Mazatlan cake topper and was by Mama Dulci.
Wedding Location: Mayan Sea Garden Resort
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