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Washington & Oregon elopement + intimate wedding photographer crafting elegant experiences that unite your sense of adventure & extravagant taste.

03/09/2026

A “damn good day” is built with carefully made decisions. 
And the biggest one is getting honest about your tipping point… aka the moment your day stops feeling like you and starts feeling like the traditional wedding you were trying to avoid in the first place.

A damn good day can be a whole weekend. It can look like cooking dinner together, lingering on the patio with the people you’d choose again, and staying in one place because you know running all over the coolest spots on the coast would turn “fun” into stress. So you book the lodge that has it all.

But… keeping it small doesn’t automatically keep it from feeling traditional. 
There’s still a tipping point (even with a tiny guest list) where decisions start getting made for other people.

So if you’re planning, ask yourself: What makes you feel supported? Who makes you feel calm and fully yourself? Who would you have to edit your vows for? And what number / dynamic would take it too far for you?

This couple knew their answers. They hosted the entire day at a private seaside lodge. Their wedding party outnumbered the guest list… because why not. They wined. They dined. And they danced into the night. As the sun met the horizon, they walked down to the ocean… where a grey day surprised us with the most unreal pink sunset I’ve ever seen (for a whole 2 minutes before it was gone). It was a day that felt perfectly them.

That’s the whole point. Build the day around what actually makes you happy (and protect it).

✨I’m now booking 2026 + 2027 intimate weddings + elopements.✨
 ➡️Details + inquiry form are on my website (link in bio).

03/04/2026

Two things I’m protecting with my whole damn heart… 
Your story, and the land you choose to celebrate it on.

I want to know the real stuff… how you hold hands, what a Wednesday night looks like, when you really knew, what you’ve survived together, and why you’re choosing this moment to pause and celebrate.

Because when I understand you, I understand how to reflect your story back to you in a photograph. I understand how to help you plan an experience you’ll remember forever.

Like this evening spent frolicking amongst early season wildflowers (on trail — I know how to work the angles)… playing guitar in the mountains with your dog curled up at your feet.  
It’s a memory worth protecting… because it’s real.

But there’s also the land we build those memories on. It also deserves protection.

This ridge doesn’t have a name. I found it years ago driving aimlessly (yet again) down forest service roads. It’s a place I keep in my back pocket and won’t shout from the mountain tops.

I’ve seen what happens when a place goes viral overnight. Small communities can’t keep up. Land managers are forced into restrictions. People get upset. The place pays for it. These hillsides blanketed in yellow each spring become loved to dust.

Loving the environment means more than loving the great outdoors. It means working to preserve it. Let it be wild. Stay on the trail. Look (don’t pick) at the wildflowers.

And yes… I still have one opening left this spring for a windy, golden-hour balsamroot sunset. Details + inquiry form are on my website (link in bio)

01/30/2026

I’ve been sitting with this for a minute.

Marriage doesn’t outside of what’s happening around all of us. Neither do elopements. Neither do wedding days.

Couples choosing an intimate weddings or elopements are choosing to be rooted in something real even when life feels loud and heavy.

Planning a wedding, an elopement, or a marriage right now means holding grief and joy at the same time. It means carving out space for quiet moments, commitment, laughter, and vows.

These things are fuel.

My work lives at the intersection of love, public lands, chosen family, and the belief that documenting real connection in the Pacific Northwest. Especially now.

Let this be our fuel.

01/12/2026

This is where it usually starts.

Sitting down, curled up in my big comfy chair, listening to the rain, while you tell me everything you don’t want for your wedding day… plus the short list of things you think you want, but are still sorting through.

And somewhere between “we hate big weddings” and “we just want it to feel like us,” we realize you’re really looking for a day full of quiet moments.

So we chase misty coastlines, mossy canopies of old growth cedars, cabins that smell like wood smoke, wind you can hear before you see it…
all to land on a day that feels entirely yours.

If you know you don’t want a traditional wedding,
but you don’t quite know what you want instead…
this is the part I love helping you with.

01/08/2026

What losing my airpods taught me about planning an elopement day…

My airpods are a key part of a typical day in the office for me. I wake up, work out (airpods), shower, eat breakfast, get to work (airpods), take the dogs on a walk (airpods), meet with clients (airpods), before transitioning into my usual evening routine (sans airpods… except for when I’m cooking, obviously).

On a travel day? You know the airpods are already there.

My airpods are always kept in THE kitchen drawer (you know the one). That is until one day they weren’t there.

I had a system. It worked. Until I stopped following it.

Now I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve spent retracing my steps.

Spoiler: they’re still missing.

When it comes to planning your elopement, most couples start out thinking they don’t need a system. They chose to elope because they wanted less structure and more freedom. But that’s until they’re knee-deep in Google Docs, half-baked ideas, and three different versions of a guest list.
The truth is: without a plan that keeps things in place, the whole experience starts feeling scattered fast.

You lose time. And you lose that easy feeling that made you decide to elope in the first place.
That’s why I don’t just show up with a camera, I help you create a plan that actually holds up in real life. One that keeps the excitement where it belongs (in your hands) and the stress where it doesn’t (out of your head).

Because a good plan isn’t restrictive. It’s the thing that gives you space to just be there. And you deserve to be there.

Trying to figure out how to balance adventuring through the great outdoors and quality time with your favorite people? I’d love to help you map out at a plan that lets you do exactly that.

12/24/2025

You could wait to start planning your wedding day until after the holidays.

I’ve definitely fallen trap to the feeling of needing to be “on” all the time, constantly checking off “to-do” boxes. I once answered an inquiry on Christmas Day…

Yikes.

And that’s definitely not the energy I’m carrying into 2026. I’m focused on staying present, creating more space for life to exist in between the work.

I’d encourage you to do the same. What happens if you wait? What if you paused any wedding planning until January?

Would you be that far behind?

Or would you have instead created more time to surround yourself with your favorite people, rest, and make a few more lasting memories in 2025.

The second you dive into planning your wedding day is the second this chapter will fly by in an instant. Your engaged chapter is probably one of the shortest times in your lives you’ll share. So maybe take a chance to hold onto it just a little bit longer.

I’ll still be here when you’re ready in 2026.

Until then, I’m signing off to be with my favorite people, and making a few last memories of my own. I hope you’ll join me.

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! See you in January 🤍

P.S my husband’s camera skills are getting good right? Tell him they’re getting good 🤭

12/18/2025

Not every story that deserves documenting starts with a ring or ends with a baby announcement.

➡️ Sometimes it looks like baking cookies in the kitchen you dreamed up and built together.
➡️ Slow mornings with your dogs curled at your feet.
➡️ The last few weeks in a place before this chapter closes on this version of you.
➡️ An ordinary Tuesday that somehow feels like home.

We spend so much of our lives waiting and looking forward (or back to) to the moments people send invitations for.

But the life you’re actually living RIGHT NOW is the part that lasts. That’s the part you’ll want to remember. The part full of all the little core memories that makes your story what it is.

Photos don’t have to be reserved for milestones someone else decided matter most.

Whatever season you’re in, whatever chapter you’re writing, it’s enough.
It’s already worthy.

12/17/2025

Last night’s windstorm knocked out the power here, and I won’t lie… I loved it.

I made coffee by lantern light (the same ones I bring to elopements), wrapped myself in a wool blanket, and sat down to write. Not a single notification to interrupt me.

When the power came back on, I was… a little sad. The slow moment I’d been craving came to an end.

It very much felt like when you slip on a seaplane headset… it’s that same stillness that settles in. Where all you hear is static and the low hum of the engine. Both you and the moment hang in the air, where nothing is urgent… except not to miss the views below.

This was one piece of a multi-day elopement I photographed this year.
 They’d already shared their vows earlier in the week. But this day we landed on a quiet alpine lake in the Cascades and let the rest of the afternoon carry us through cold mountain water, fresh berries, a breeze in the trees. After a rush to plan, nothing else required their attention now.

So many of the days I documented and co-created with couples this year felt like this… and they’re just sitting on my hard drive. Life has just been really full in the best way possible, and I’m finally making time to share.

This morning was a reminder that these PNW landscapes reward presence only.
 And sometimes, the quiet is the thing you miss most once the lights come back on.

12/08/2025

This year broke my heart… and still gave me the best one yet.

How do you celebrate love when everything feels like a mess?

I’m not over here immune to what’s happening in the world right now.

When everything feels so freaking heavy, how are you supposed to focus on what’s supposed to be the happiest moments of your life?

You focus on what matters. Call me a romantic… call it sappy… love always prevails.

Because amongst the chaos of the world, this was the most successful year for Cascadian Exposures to date. I witnessed more couples say ‘yes’ to forever while doing it their way.

When I heard the quiet whispers in corners from loved ones saying “this isn’t how I imagined it, but I support them, they’re happy and that’s what matters”… that’s when I knew we were all exactly where we needed to be in that moment.

There’s always good among the bad. Always.
The two can coexist.

When we have each other, we have everything 🤍

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