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Henry Tieu Photography Intimate Wedding & Adventurous Elopement Photographer from Seattle, Washington. Specializes in capturing honest, meaningful and artful photographs.

The Pacific Northwest is home but available worldwide.

10/07/2026

Would you wake up this early for your wedding?

We set the alarm for 2am, drove through the dark, and had all of Lago di Braies to ourselves. This is what it looks like when nobody else is around.

Our number one priority: we have to have our daughter there. Done We don’t need a lot of guests, just the ones who’ve be...
10/06/2026

Our number one priority: we have to have our daughter there. Done

We don’t need a lot of guests, just the ones who’ve been there through thick and thin. Done

Maybe an Airbnb with a stunning view so our guests don’t have to hike? Done

Can we get wedding tattoos? Absolutely. Done

Then private vows with the most dramatic view of Mt. Rainier behind us? 1000%

Well, who am I kidding? I can promise everything above but I can’t promise Rainier will show up. She does whatever she wants and none of us are in charge of her😅

This is how I planned and photographed K and J’s intimate wedding during wildflower season at Mt. Rainier

We made a list of their priorities. We figured out what was real, what mattered, and what was actually possible, and got rid of the things that felt fluffy and performative.

If I could be honest for a moment, this summer felt so heavy as an artist.

Social media. The state of our world. Everything suddenly being “AI generated”. There was so much noise that I started having a hard time hearing the part of myself that wanted to create.

But this day felt like a nice long exhale
…I stepped into K and J’s reality.
…I walked with them through the nervousness during getting ready and the tattoos
…I hiked beside them and heard the excitement in their voices as Rainier glowed during vows, partially disappeared into the clouds at sunset, and eventually vanished completely into the fog at night

None of it was generated. None of it was perfect.

It was unpredictable, funny, nervous, beautiful, and completely human

Maybe being a photographer isn’t about creating something the world hasn’t seen before

Maybe it’s about paying enough attention to the life happening in front of you that you can show someone what their version of it felt like

K and J, Thank you for letting me step into your world even just for a day so I could be reminded of the joy that is telling stories via photographs

Captured on digital Sony | Alpha 35mm and 120mm film Kodak

Mt. rainier wedding photographer, Film wedding photographer, Mount Rainier Elopement

I think life has a funny way of eventually putting us on the other side of the things we know.She’s an elopement photogr...
09/21/2026

I think life has a funny way of eventually putting us on the other side of the things we know.

She’s an elopement photographer herself.

She knows what a wedding morning looks like.
The nerves before getting dressed.
The quiet moments in between.
What happens when the light gets good and everyone starts moving a little slower.

But knowing what something looks like and knowing what it feels like are two very different things.

She has spent years watching people stand somewhere beautiful and promise their lives to each other.

And this time, it was hers.

Or really, theirs.

We spent two days together in the Dolomites, and what I loved most was how much of it simply belonged to them.

There was time to take a boat across the lake, get ready together, wander into the mountains and stay until the light was gone.

Nothing felt like we were trying to fit a wedding into a day.

It felt like they were just living it.

And I think there’s something beautiful about beginning a marriage that way.

Giving yourself enough time to actually be inside of it. To look over and realize the person beside you is the whole reason you came all this way in the first place.

The person behind the camera eventually gets their turn in front of it.

The person watching someone else’s life change eventually wakes up to a day that changes their own.

And somewhere along the way, you find someone who gets to stand beside you when it does.

That’s what I’ll remember most about these two days.

We were surrounded by some of the biggest mountains I’ve ever seen, but somehow none of it felt bigger than the two people standing in front of me.

That’s the funny thing about beautiful places.

You travel all that way to see them, and sometimes you leave remembering the person you were there with instead. 🤍

Photo: Henry Tieu | Washington Wedding & Elopement Photographer
Digital: Sony | Alpha
Film: Kodak Ektacolor Pro 400
Video: Oregon Wedding Photographer & Videographer | Alesia Hardy
Florals: Margherita Dalle Ceste
Hotel/Cake: FORESTIS
HMUA: Venice Makeup artist and hairstyle ITALY🇮🇹
Dress: Milla Nova™
Suit: Suitsupply

Part 3: The last chapter. Greece. 🇬🇷There’s a strange thing about endings.We spend so much of our lives trying to make t...
09/15/2026

Part 3: The last chapter. Greece. 🇬🇷

There’s a strange thing about endings.

We spend so much of our lives trying to make the good things last longer. One more sunset. One more photograph. One more dinner before everyone goes home.

But maybe the fact that something ends is part of what makes us pay attention while we’re still inside of it.

It feels like reaching the last few pages of a book you love. You know there isn’t much left, so you start reading a little slower.

Three days. Two countries. Italy to Greece.

And on our last evening together, there was nowhere else to go. No next location to chase. No plane to catch for another chapter.

Just Christina and Tyler, dressed up one last time, watching the sun disappear into the sea.

I met Christina six years ago because of photography. Back then, I never could have known that one day I would be standing in Greece photographing her with the person she would marry.

I think about things like that a lot.

How many people enter our lives because we happened to say yes to something.
How many places we end up because of one decision made years before.
How impossible it is to know, while you’re living an ordinary day, which parts of it are quietly changing the rest of your life.

Maybe that’s why I’ve never really believed photographs are only about remembering what something looked like.

They’re proof that somehow, against all the millions of ways life could have gone, we were here together.

Christina and Tyler, thank you for three days, two countries, so many rolls of film I eventually lost count, and six years of friendship that somehow led us all the way here.

Thank you for trusting me enough to make something without always needing to know what it would become.

And thank you for reminding me that sometimes the best part of this job isn’t where photography takes me.

It’s who I get to meet along the way.

The end. 🤍

Digital photos on Sony | Alpha
Film on

Part 2 of Christina and Tyler’s story. This time, Greece. 🇬🇷
Social media can be so loud sometimes. The more I scroll, t...
09/08/2026

Part 2 of Christina and Tyler’s story. This time, Greece. 🇬🇷

Social media can be so loud sometimes. The more I scroll, the more I feel like everyone is screaming at us about things we’re supposed to want, supposed to value, supposed to do.

You’re supposed to take the shot.
You’re supposed to kiss here.
You’re supposed to make the moment look like something.

But the more lives I’ve been invited into, the less certain I’ve become about the word “supposed to.”

When we planned this morning, Christina and Tyler wanted it to feel like one of the trips they’ve always taken together. And after years of following their adventures on Facebook, I knew exactly what they meant.

Wander somewhere new. Get in the water. Lay in the sun. Kiss when you want to. Jump in because it looks fun.

Except this time, they were exploring a new country for the first time as husband and wife.

So instead of thinking about all the photographs we were supposed to make, I followed them around Greece with a few rolls of film and let the morning become whatever it wanted to be.

Maybe that’s what I’m learning about life too.

The less I worry about what something is supposed to look like, the more I get to see what it actually is.

And this was only the morning.

Part 3 is what happened when we traded swimsuits for wedding clothes and watched the sun go down over Greece. 🤍 Stay tuned 😘

Digital photos on Sony | Alpha
Film on Ektacolor Pro 400
Photo: Henry Tieu | Washington Wedding & Elopement Photographer
Content: Toronto & Destination Wedding Content Creator
Video: Toronto Wedding Photography & Cinematography Team
Veil: Sara Gabriel from The Modern Bride

Greece Wedding Photographer, Greece Elopement Photographer, Destination Wedding, Film Wedding & Elopement Photographer

2 days in Italy. 1 in Greece. And somehow, 6 years in the making.This was my first time photographing a wedding experien...
09/02/2026

2 days in Italy. 1 in Greece. And somehow, 6 years in the making.

This was my first time photographing a wedding experience across two countries, and I have these two to thank for trusting me enough to dream this up with them.

But my story with Christina actually started six years ago, when I met her at the very last wedding photography workshop I ever taught.

And if you want to know what a warm sunset feels like as a person, it’s Christina.

I remember those nights after the workshop was over, when the presentations ended and we all sat around pouring our guts out about photography, life, and why we cared so much about documenting love.

Christina was always the person who listened, who made people feel seen, who somehow found something beautiful in everyone around her.

Six years later, I got to witness that same warmth between her and Tyler.

I felt it while we planned this together. I felt it through two days in Italy and another in Greece. And I felt it in the kind of trust that eventually makes you forget you’re supposed to be making photographs at all.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the freedom of having nothing left to prove.

I know I would still make photographs. Maybe I’d just make them because I wanted to see what could exist, instead of wondering who would notice.

I think these photographs came from somewhere close to that.

Because art can only go as far as the trust we’re given.
And these two gave me so much of it.

Three days of photographing them, and even more days together in between, made saying goodbye harder than I expected.

Christina and Tyler, thank you for trusting me with all of this. For letting me dream alongside you, create freely, and most of all, for letting me witness a love that feels every bit as warm as the two of you.

So for now, here are a few pieces of Italy, with a tiny glimpse of Greece on the second slide.

Greece deserves a story of its own. 🤍 So stay tuned 🙂
For now, enjoy these digitals and films Sony | Alpha Kodak
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Destination wedding photographer, Dolomites Elopement, Italy Elopement

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For once, the wedding photographer got to forget she was a wedding photographer.Joy spends so much of her life behind a ...
08/25/2026

For once, the wedding photographer got to forget she was a wedding photographer.

Joy spends so much of her life behind a camera, preserving everyone else’s memories.

This time, it was finally her turn to live them.

And as nervous as I was photographing another wedding photographer, more than anything, I wanted Joy to NOT feel like a photographer for even just a day.

To fully be there with her life partner.
To forget about the world for a little while.
To simply be.

Somewhere between sunrise in the Dolomites, lunch on top of a mountain, hiking around in wedding clothes, burning through a few rolls of film and waiting for the sun to disappear, the camera started to feel like the least important part of the day.

I stopped thinking about making “good photographs.”

I started noticing the way they laughed.
The way they reached for each other.
The way Joy’s dress moved in the wind.
The way they danced together during golden sunset instead of posing for the camera.
The way neither of them seemed to care what we were doing next.

Funny how the less the day became about photographs, the more the photographs started to mean.

And maybe that was the whole point.
maybe that’s something all of us photographers need to remember sometimes.

We spend so much time thinking about photographs that it’s easy to forget why they matter in the first place.

They matter…
Because someone laughed like that.
Because you held each other there.
Because for one tiny chapter of your life, you were young and in love and running around the Dolomites in your wedding clothes without a care in the world.

To J and J, thank you for trusting another photographer with something you know the value of so deeply.

After spending so much of your life preserving memories for everyone else, Joy, I hope these photographs remind you what it felt like when it was finally your turn to simply live them.

Photographer: Henry Tieu | Washington Wedding & Elopement Photographer
Accommodation: Brondstott Farm & Suites Kronplatz
HMUA: Grace McConnellogue | Lake Como Bridal Makeup & Spray Tan
Florals: Margherita Dalle Ceste
Bride’s Dress: LOVELY BRIDE HOUSTON
Rings & accessories: Valobra Master Jewelers
Groom’s Suit: Suitsupply
Boat: lago di Braies la palafitta | boat experience
Catering & Cake: AlpiNN by Norbert Niederkofler

When I was an ICU nurse, I witnessed firsthand how quickly a moment can pass.The promise of a better tomorrow is one non...
08/20/2026

When I was an ICU nurse, I witnessed firsthand how quickly a moment can pass.

The promise of a better tomorrow is one none of us can ever make.

Then I picked up a camera.

At first, I thought photography was about capturing the beauty of life. But I quickly realized that every time I press the shutter, I’m saying hello to a photograph and goodbye to a moment in time.

All the people in this room?
Who knows when everyone will be together like this again.

The kids running around?
One day, they’ll rather be with their friends than here with us.

Your parents dancing?
Someday, you’ll realize they were younger in this photograph than you remember them being.

The people you love are changing right in front of you.

So are you.

Healthcare and Photography have taught me that nothing is forever. And maybe beauty exists not despite that, but because of it.

So I’ve learned to stop fighting imperfection.

The wind ruins the hair and makes the photograph.
Someone laughs in the middle of crying.
The photo is blurry because the hug happened faster than I anticipated.
The light disappears before we’re ready.

And sometimes, years later, those are the photographs that hurt a little more to look at.

Because they feel alive.

I used to think my job was to make moments beautiful.

The longer I do this, the more I realize my job is to notice the beauty that was already there.

The wrinkles.
The tears.
The muddy dresses
The crooked smiles.
The people who showed up.

All the little imperfections that simply say: We were here and all of this was real!

Maybe that’s what photography and living this one life have in common.

They ask us to love something while knowing we cannot keep it.

A photograph can’t stop time.
But for 1/1000th of a second, it can bear witness to it.

Then the shutter closes.

The hug ends.
The light changes.
Everyone gets a little older.

And somehow, we get to keep a tiny piece of evidence that it happened at all.

Happy World Photography Day.

Take the blurry photos.
Take the imperfect photos.
Take the ordinary Wednesday photos.

Especially of the people you love.
One day, you won’t care whether they were perfect. You’ll just be grateful they existed.

K + L had been to the Faroe Islands before.I hadn’t.So for two days, they took me back to some of their favorite places ...
08/18/2026

K + L had been to the Faroe Islands before.

I hadn’t.

So for two days, they took me back to some of their favorite places from their last trip…and somehow, we made completely new memories in all of them.

We said hi to every sheep and horse that would tolerate us 😂
We went to Tórshavn City Hall where they officially became wife and wife 🥹🏳️‍🌈
We pulled over on the side of the road for their first dance because in the Faroe Islands, apparently even the side of the road can look like that.

Then the next day, we hiked.
We crossed streams, got our boots soaked, climbed until there was nobody else around, and eventually found ourselves standing above the North Atlantic.

That was where K + L read their vows.

There’s something about photographing another q***r love story that will always hit a little differently for me.

Maybe because so many of us grew up NEVER seeing stories like ours reach this part.

The wedding.
The marriage.
The growing old together.

And now I get to stand behind a camera and watch it happen in front of me.
I think that’s why these two days stayed with me.

K + L came back to the Faroe Islands thinking they already knew this place.

But now there’s a City Hall where they got married.
A random road where they had their first dance.
A few streams they crossed in wedding clothes.

And a cliff somewhere above the ocean where they promised each other forever.

Same place. Completely different memories.

Thank you K + L for showing me a place you already loved and trusting me to document the reason you’ll love it a little differently now. ❤️

A mixture of digitals and film Sony | Alpha Kodak Ektacolor Pro 400

Florals: Akkuleya
HMUA: MAKEUP & HAIR ARTIST ICELAND❄️🌋🌌
Dress: Daci Gowns - wedding dress designer & Catherine Deane | Bridal
Suit: Uncommon Closet
Airbnb: Hanusarstova

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