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05/04/2026

mt rainier elopements are genuinely something out of a day dream.

04/27/2026

next year will mark 10 years of Brian and I doing this whole thing full time. but it wasn’t always like this…

we started as traditional wedding photographers. shot your standard 150-200 person wedding, with crowded rooms, tight timelines, days that moved so fast you could barely breathe.

and I remember loving our couples, but feeling this disconnect in a way I couldn’t really explain yet.

because in between weddings, we were here.

in the mountains, on the road, dirt baggin’ it, living out of the car sometimes so we could go to our dream places. where everything just felt more us, ya know?

but we’d come back home and go right back into something that just didn’t feel like us.

and it took a while to figure out that really…weddings just weren’t our thing. because the thing was THIS.

we were always chasing THIS.

and if you’re feeling that same weird in between unsettled feel about having a wedding too? you don’t have to settle for the kind of wedding everyone else has.

and lucky you….youre in the right place. 😘

photo dump part 2 cause it’s been a minute since I plopped a bunch of life stuff in here for yall. miscellaneous life an...
04/19/2026

photo dump part 2 cause it’s been a minute since I plopped a bunch of life stuff in here for yall.

miscellaneous life and road trip and elopements.

life is busy busy!!!

april road trip photo dump 🌀 this month is one of our biggest travel months of the year for elopements so we decided to ...
04/19/2026

april road trip photo dump 🌀

this month is one of our biggest travel months of the year for elopements so we decided to make a road trip out of it and spend 12 days driving from our place in Bellingham down to Sedona, AZ, up through the Eastern Sierras, and out to the Redwoods for elopements! so we dirt bagged our way through basically the whole western US.

annnnnnd it was twig’s first road trip ever! fern is a seasoned pro by now, but twiggy is only 6 months old and he did SO good.

but lemme tell ya, at the end of those 12 days we were very happy to be home lol

we’d never been to Sedona before, but it might be our fave desert spot now???? so another southwest road trip might be in the cards…

any reccs for our next trip down there?? what’s your fave southwest spot?

02/19/2026

my faves are always the banana slugs and the elk, what do you have a fave?!?! what’s your dream animal to see when you come to the PNW???

the last two months have felt like a hurricane of goodness (although if you’d asked us like a month ago how we felt, the...
01/03/2026

the last two months have felt like a hurricane of goodness (although if you’d asked us like a month ago how we felt, the answer would have been very different lol).

two weeks before Thanksgiving we added a new family member to our home and he’s the cutest little nugget we could have asked for. twig, our field golden retriever, was 8 weeks old when we brought him home and holy s**t you guys….

you couldn’t have reminded me how hard it is to have a puppy? lol one of you described it as having a newborn with rabies and that pretty much sums it up.

but it’s been two of the most rewarding months we’ve had in a long time. so December was filled with lots of cozy meals and pjs and taking naps between delivering the very last galleries and films of the season (just 4 more films to go!).

Alright, y’all voted on my story the other day and I’m here to deliver! Secret fern meadow hand fasting for their Olympi...
08/02/2025

Alright, y’all voted on my story the other day and I’m here to deliver! Secret fern meadow hand fasting for their Olympic National Park elopement, complete with a beach cabin tucked away on a coastal cliffside, salmon berry snackin’, and all of the driftwood your heart could possibly need.

hair + makeup:
cabin:

Summer cliffside elopements on the Oregon Coast? Yeah, they’re okay I guess. (and by okay I mean they’re the most specta...
06/20/2025

Summer cliffside elopements on the Oregon Coast? Yeah, they’re okay I guess.

(and by okay I mean they’re the most spectacularly beautiful days or whatever)

florals: the spectacular
suit:

Allison + John met in film school nearly two decades ago and after what ends up being most of their lives together, they...
03/26/2025

Allison + John met in film school nearly two decades ago and after what ends up being most of their lives together, they decided it was finally time.

A day full of torrential downpours, hail, and some bits of sunshine, tourists serenading us on the beach with Celine Dion and Justin Bieber as we all hid from the hail behind the rocks.

A day of talks of Criterion collections, of the East Coast, of old college memories, of golden eagles and fairy tale mossy forests.

hair + makeup: .angela
florals:
dress:

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