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Melanie & Adam {Washington Wedding Photography}

It drizzled on and off throughout the morning of Melanie and Adam’s wedding day. As a wedding photographer, I really prefer the cloudy days but this bordered on stormy. The sky was a threatening dark gray. Right before the wedding ceremony, it started to rain pretty hard. Then all of a sudden as the bride...

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Getting Ready {Washington Wedding Photography}

Melanie and Adam are such a cute couple.  They just seem to make each other giggle every time they are near.  Both during the wedding, and their engagement session, he just could not stop kissing her. The wedding was held on the bride’s cousin’s land, a beautiful field with tall trees in the back.  It...

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Simple Beauty {Salem Wedding Photography}

From Kayla’s dress to the decorations, everything about this couple’s wedding was simple, elegant and beautiful.  The bride and the bridesmaids had white dresses with eyelit cotton fabrics.  The tables had little rocks surrounding flowers, and glass jars with candles.  More candles hung from a string lining the dance floor, accompanied by photos of the...

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One year to the day {Salem Wedding Photography}

On August 22nd 2008, Kayla & Skyler met. They were in a friend’s wedding party at the Gateway Community Church in Salem, Oregon. One year later, the two chose to have their own wedding at the same site. The look on Kayla’s father’s face in this picture makes me think of what it will be...

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Don't Wear Heels {Salem Wedding Photography}

A few days before the wedding, Kayla says to me, “don’t wear heels”. I never do when I’m photographing a wedding so I didn’t think much of it. Kayla and Skyler got engaged five months earlier at Keizer Rapids Park, just north of Salem. We walked the same path that Kayla did that day. It...

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