Portland Oregon Wedding and Portrait Photographer
Vesna and Tony had their beautiful ceremony at The Grotto - the setting was very serene with sun peeking through the trees. Afterward the reception was at the Portland Art Museum Kridel Grand Ballroom, decorated beautifully by Vibrant Table. There was no shortage of awesome music, punctuated by Tony’s own band!
Ada and Brad had a very unique wedding, starting at the First Baptists Church in Portland, and then moving to Governor Hotel Heritage Ballroom. They had around 400 fun guests. Ada had three dresses for the various events, such as the tea ceremony - a traditional white dress, a red dress and a pink dress. Their wedding place cards were golf themed. The table decorations were gorgeous!
Ozgur and Vanessa met at a snowboarding trip and they got married at Timberline Lodge. How perfect! Ozgur’s family came all the way from Turkey to attend this beautiful reception with some Turkish wedding touches. The ceremony featured mixing of the sands - originally the sand was going to be coming in from Turkish beach but due to some customs mishap, they used beautifully colored sand instead. They passed bags of Turkish candy (similar to akide sekeri) as their wedding favors and attached a “nazar boncugu” (evil eye), a traditional Turkish symbol.
Mt. Hood was a gorgeous backdrop to their wedding ceremony. For their romantic shots, I also used the other side of the mountain as a backdrop, using the forests and the reflection lake, and also Mt. Bachelor.
Enjoy!
Nazar boncugu with Akide Sekeri
One of the more popular themes in Oregon is a golf club wedding. Anna and Brian tied the knot at Oregon Golf Club. It was a beautiful day with views of Mt. Hood!
Anna and Brian took private dance classes and showed off their moves at their first dance. They ended their dance with a great dip (picture below). As a dancer myself, I really appreciated the cool moves and the choerography. Another great idea they had was the orchids they gave as wedding favors. I planted mine! The dancing was great, They ended the night exiting under sparklers and leaving in a 1958 Rolls Royce.
Vendors:
Officiant: Roger Moore
Caterer: Oregon Golf Club 25700 S.W. Petes Mountain Road West Linn, OR 97068 - 503.650.6900
Wedding Cake Bakery: Lamb’s Thriftway
Ceremony Musician: William Jenks - Portland Classical Guitar
Reception DJ/Musicians All Wright Music Eric Wright
Transportation/Limousine : Parke Avenue Limo Gary Parke 503.750.3891
Flowers: Geranium Lake Florist
Videographer: Ambient Sky
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.
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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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What a gorgeous day for Meesa and Greg’s Fall and Celtic Themed Wedding! Just clear skies and lots fun! Pine Grove United Methodist Church is a super cute small church out at Hood River. After the ceremony the couple rang the church bells and then we drove to a pumpkin patch and got some great shots and then to an abandoned railroad warehouse.
Before we head out to the reception at McMenamins Edgefield Attic Room, the couple and their guests stopped at Apple Valley Country Store for some icecream and pie, yummy!
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It is the season for small intimate church weddings! Brooks Hill Historic Church is just a beautiful small church on Skyline Boulevard at a very pretty setting. The reception was at the Lawrence Art Gallery in Portland. I love shooting at art museums and galleries because they have great lighting to showcase the art and backdrop of Picasso to the food table never gets old!
The reception highlight was the fun slideshow created and narrated by Katie’s dad!
Enjoy! Here is a small selection: (note: to see the full set, go to here - password required)
Place cards!
Beautiful settings by Vibrant Table
Working on the slideshow!
Almost got you!
The slideshow!
Officiant Kimmy Meineke
Caterer Salvador Molly’s Vibrant Table Karen Rich 503-680-3986 2236 SE Belmont http://www.vibranttable.com
Cake Papa Haydn Molly RIzzuto 503-572-4100 5829 SE Milwaukie http://www.papahaydn.com
Ceremony musician Lori Presthus 503-244-5208 http://www.loripresthus.com
Florist Flowers by Laurie 503-641-0634
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Vada and Geoff’s wedding was full of fun people. It started at Salon 77 with make up, then to hotel Vintage Plaza and then to Old Laurelhurst Church. The reception was at Acadian Ballroom with a very energetic crowd! At one point Geoff took over the drums and rocked the place 
There was even a cute pug present on the dance floor!
Here is a little slideshow if you want to see more photos than what’s below.
This is right after they walked down the aisle!
Geoff rocking!
lawnmower baby!
Right outside the ballroom there was a car accident where a SUV and truck collided. Nobody was seriously hurt but I wonder how fast they were driving to flip over at Al berta Street?
Vendors:
Cake: Jaciva’s Pam 4733 SE Hawthorone Blvd., Portland 97214 503-234-8115 http://www.jacivas.com
Ceremony musician Devon Sanders
Transportation Transportation Specialist Gordon 503-736-1182
Florist Crystal Lilies Kimberly/Scott 134 SE Taylor Street, Portland 97214 503-221-7701 http://www.crystallilies.com
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