Rachael Elana Photography

11/17/2024

Love our baby more than anything 😍❤️

11/04/2024

It was such a joy documenting this sweet boy’s interactions with his doting parents and head-over-heels in-love grandparents. You’re a very sweet, loved boy dear Sebastian!

11/03/2024

Photographing this sweet redheaded family during the gorgeous morning golden hour lighting was sheer joy and magic! It’s been a wonderful (and busy) fall season with lots of adorable, sweet families and I’m looking forward to cozy indoor sessions and snowy adventurous ones in the coming months!

10/30/2024

It was an absolute pleasure capturing Christina’s and Andrew’s love and joy a mere 2.5 weeks before their sweet bundle made his debut into this crazy world! You’re one lucky kid to have such sweet, loving, parents!

10/09/2024

We’re back from an unforgettable 2.5 weeks in Greece where we explored Athens, Crete, and Santorini! Special thanks to my wonderful clients who have patiently waited for their web galleries and kindly booked their fall photos around our honeymoon—I appreciate your patience and understanding.

Greece, was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful and we can’t wait to return to explore other islands and the western side of the mainland. We especially loved , , , , , and . Highlights include the insanely delicious food (especially at Phaea’s Blue Door in Crete), sunset at Rosemary’s in Pyrgos, living like royalty at Istoria (can’t get better than a private hot tub!), hiking the gorgeous Spinalonga Peninsula, kayaking in the Aegean Sea, and exploring the historical sites in Athens.

09/20/2024

Mallory and Sean’s beautiful wedding was full of so much love, laughter, happy-tears, personal details, and pure joy. The Charter at Beaver Creek provided the most perfect space to celebrate their commitment to one another, not only for it’s spectacular views, delicious food, flower-filled grounds, but also for the special meaning this incredible places holds for this sweet couple. It was a pleasure documenting this magical day. Lots of love you two and now please move to Colorado so our puppers can play together!

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09/19/2024

I’ve been photographing this wonderful family for NINE years and I love them so so much! They started off as clients and eventually became family ❤️ Their newest family member is MeiMei which means “little sister” in Mandarin. MeiMei is one of the sweetest, most docile, easygoing, chill puppers I’ve had the pleasure to spend time with! Can’t wait to visit these guys in CT in October! Love you Tang Family!

09/18/2024

It’s hard to believe that over three years ago I had the fortune of signing up, by total chance, for a Pilates class with through . Boy was I in for a treat! Shari not only is a brilliant Pilates instructor, but she expertly knew how to help my scoliosis, which is extremely rare. She also is hysterical and makes Pilates fun—which is not something I usually attribute to Pilates. Fast forward to now, and Shari is one of my favorite clients as the founder and owner of in . It’s been a pleasure taking Shari’s classes over the years and photographing her fabulous studio and team! So much for love this woman!

09/17/2024

I’ve been photographing this sweet, spunky, vibrant little lady since she was 6 months old. It continues to be pure joy and an honor to see how she continues to grow into herself and the special relationships she has with her doting parents. This mom+daughter session was pure love.

Session from this past spring in NYC 🌸

08/20/2024

Thanks to the encouragement of my incredible husband who could see how much I loved teaching a bouquet workshop back in February, Florals by Rachael Elana has been keeping me fairly busy the last 6ish months. Busy enough that it warrants its own site!

Rachael Elana Photography is a Denver photographer and family portrait photographer with a second location in NYC. With her timeless, authentic, and artistic style, Rachael documents all special occasions including weddings, elopements, proposals, engagements, birthday parties and events of all kind

08/08/2024

Photo dump #2 because we’re beyond in love with our gorgeous photos from

Major shoutout to , especially Nico, who is the most incredible event/wedding pro I’ve had the pleasure of working with! Not only is the venue easy, convenient, beautiful, and fun—their staff goes above and beyond in their thoughtfulness, kindness, are extremely detail oriented, and all around rockstars!! We will certainly find excuses to hold parties at MC in the future as we loved them SO much!

08/07/2024

Words cannot adequately express the magic and love of August 4th. I married the love of my life surrounded by our closest family members and chosen-family. Officiated by my soul sister , under a chuppah adorned with my grandfather’s tallis (and gorgeous flowers thanks to my sister ), we proclaimed our forever love, commitment, respect, support, and encouragement to grow as individuals and together, for the rest of our lives. This was hands down the best day of my life (second best being when Mitch proposed)! I’m the luckiest human alive to have as my HUSBAND 🥰❤️

I cannot praise our incredible vendors enough to make our day everything we wished for. Our amazing community of friends and my parents and sister truly made my floral and decor vision come to life by transporting and setting up all of my florals, candles, et al (while following borderline OCD instructions 🤪) while beautifully captured our love at before our ceremony and reception at . It truly takes a village; we feel incredibly loved, supported, and cared for. We love you all and thank you ❤️😘

Lastly, as a couple who cares deeply for the environment, we loved holding our wedding at a zero-waste venue that composts, has solar panels, and is all about sourcing as much as possible from local Colorado farms and businesses. All florals excluding roses were sourced from local Colorado flower farms via . Roses from .

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More photos to come!