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Elopement at Merriman’s Kapalua: An Intimate Maui Celebration For Blakley and Corey, choosing an elopement at Merriman’s Kapalua meant stepping away from expectation and creating space for a wedding day that felt deeply personal, intentional, and entirely their own. With no guests and no distractions, their celebration unfolded quietly. Just the two of them exchanging […]

Lairmont Manor is a Wedding Venue That Rewards Exploration Choosing a Lairmont Manor Wedding means embracing vintage charm and timeless elegance. Some venues are beautiful at first glance. Others reveal themselves slowly — and Lairmont Manor is unmistakably the latter. With layers of greenery, winding pathways, and tucked-away corners, the property invites you to wander. […]

A Refined Wedding Experience at Hideaway Cellars Some wedding days are beautiful. Others feel almost enchanted — where the light turns soft at exactly the right moment, emotions sit just beneath the surface, and every space seems to welcome celebration. This Hideaway Cellars wedding was one of those rare days. From a quiet morning spent […]

A Refined Fourth of July Fremont Foundry Wedding in Seattle There is something quietly extraordinary about a celebration that feels entirely unforced — where every choice reflects the couple not through spectacle, but through intention. Steven and Lauren’s Fourth of July Fremont Foundry wedding embodied this sensibility from beginning to end. Warm, relaxed, and deeply […]

Rooftop Portraits, a Heartfelt Courthouse Ceremony, and an Intimate Dinner Celebration Claire and Colin’s Seattle courthouse elopement was unforgettable for me. These two were already such dear friends long before they ever asked me to photograph their wedding. When they reached out and asked if I would document their day, I was genuinely so touched. […]

The First of Your Family Heirlooms There is something undeniably magical about film photography — the softness of the light, the richness of the colors, the way each image feels like a memory rather than just a photograph. In a world where everything is instant and digital, film invites us to slow down. To be […]

Is Wedding Videography Worth Adding to Your Photography Package? When you’re planning your wedding, one of the big questions that always comes up is:Do we really need video, or is photography enough? There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on what you value, how you want to remember your day, and what you imagine pulling out […]

An Anniversary Dinner Turned Engagement at the Whale Lookout Returning to a Place That Already Held Meaning When Anna reached out about proposing to Lia, she already knew exactly where she wanted it to happen. One of their favorite things to do when they first moved to Washington was drive out to Whidbey Island, stand […]

An Anniversary Trip with a Bigger Plan Jonathan and Ashley traveled up from Arizona for what started as an anniversary trip. They both love the mountains and the moody beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and they had visited this area earlier in their relationship during another meaningful season of dating. When Jonathan began thinking about […]

Creating a Cinematic Wedding Film Rachel and Josh reached out about their wedding with a very specific vision for their wedding film. They didn’t want a traditional highlight video. Instead, they felt deeply inspired by the work of architectural filmmaker Juan Benavides and wanted their film to feel cinematic, intentional, and visually driven, while still […]