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!
I think one of the most “oh my god!” moment we saw shooting weddings happened at Allison and Michael’s wedding - Michael reached for the ring shortly before the ceremony, and then realized the rings were not there. The sequence is pretty cool (in hindsight) and the rings came in later after the ceremony and they did a mini ring ceremony. Everything else ran smoothly as Emee from EJP Events did a great job making sure everything ran smoothly.
Other cool thing highlights: Allison and Michael’s dog, from Oregon Humane Society, was their dog ring bearer (and did a great job!) and they also had a fire dancer!
Catering was done by Vibrant Table, and make up was by fabuluous Event Cosmetics. The scene was beautiful and I love oregon farm weddings!
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!
Hediyeh and Anoush basically had a 4 day non-stop party during their time in Sayulita. They had a beach party the night before the wedding, which included a mariachi band, an excellent DJ, who spun upbeat club beats all night long, and a surprise fire dancer near the end of the night. On the wedding day we were a top the beautiful Villa Amor Hotel, with views of the surfers and fishermen on the Sayulita beach. As family’s gathered below in the courtyard Hediyeh and Anoush appeared at sunset and joined in the festivities, with lots of great food, tequila, dancing, dancing and if you can believe it….more dancing!!
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Cool Rings
