Destination Wedding Photography
Our 2019 / 2020 wedding season brought me all around the United States and Central America! Our team had the pleasure of documenting so many amazing weddings and this was one of my favorite seasons of my career! Every year, I put together a lookbook of some of my favorite moments and this year’s collection really shines! Click below to view the entire book and enjoy - I can’t wait to see what this next year brings!
LOVEe
I first met Meggan and Nick while photographing Desiree & Yrjan’s wedding in Norway in 2014! I immediately loved these two and the energy they brought to the world! (I’d also like to note that literally everyone who has met this couple has also instantly fallen in love with them, it’s a thing.) Last year, I got a text from Meggan asking me ‘What would it take for you to come to Costa Rica and photograph our wedding?’ That text was all I needed, I was absolutely in for this adventure.
Meggan and Nick weren’t going to just have a wedding day, they were going to have a wedding week. All of their closest family and friends showed up to the little surf town of Tamarindo, Costa Rica for a week of events, parties, a wedding and even a sunset catamaran ride. There are so many memorable moments from this week that it was hard to narrow down into one blog post. Therefore, you all get to enjoy a very lengthy post that hopefully shows how this entire week felt - carefree, inspired, adventurous and most of all in love.
One fun fact about this couple is that she proposed to him! When Meggan asked, “Will you marry me?” Nick’s response was, “Of course, motherfucker!” Which you will see became a theme of their day!
Congratulations to Meggan and Nick on their marriage! It was a true pleasure to be a part of!
LOVEe
VENDORS//
Event Planning and Design: Perennial Weddings
Venue: Casa de Luz
Photography: Photogen Inc.
Brides Dress: Made with love Bridal
Grooms Suit: Indochino
Hair and Makeup: Shelly Willis
Catering: Catering Costa Rica
Cake Pops: Victoria Zoch
Flowers: Flores de Campos
Neon Sign: Heylights Co
Rentals: Leoni y Lolo and Los Primos
Live Music: Fabio Avelino
DJ: Stephen Denton
Life has a very funny way of being serendipitous and putting people in your life at the perfect moment. Chelsea and I actually grew up in the same hometown, went to the same highschool and even travelled with our choir to Austria together! However, it wasn’t until she wrote me about being her wedding photographer that we really connected. Never in a million years did I think when we were kids that we would document this special day for her and Brandon, but that is what I love about life and frankly love - it surprises you in the best of ways!
I wrote about Brandon and Chelsea’s amazing connection in their engagement blog post and those same feelings of adoration, love and pure joy rang true on their wedding day as well! The couple chose to have their wedding in northern Minnesota at Lutsen Mountain, which was a destination trip for all of their guests! This was the perfect space for Brandon and Chelsea, since this couple really does thrive in the outdoors! Chelsea was of course a beautiful, stunning bride while Brandon also matched her beauty with his dapper look!
The weather was absolutely perfect for their weekend on the north shore and our team entirely enjoyed our time with Chelsea and Brandon’s family and friends. Beyond that, there were such sincere, heartfelt moments on their wedding day that left everyone believing in love! Congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs. Hentkowski!
LOVEe
VENDORS//
Venue: Lutsen Mountains
Day of Coordination: Natalie Oslund of Polished Event Planning & Consulting
Bridal Dress: Pronovias at The White Room
Bridesmaids Dress: Show me your Mumu
Groom’s Suit: Blank Label
Groomsmen Suits: Menguin
Invitations + Programs: Jessi Rae Design
Greenery: Greenlund Ferneries
Engagement Ring: James Allen
Wedding Bands: Longs Jewelers
Catering: Lutsen Mountains
Cookies: Bluebird Cakery
Fudge: Beth’s Fudge
Band: Black River Revue
Officiant: Allan Tran
Signage, Details, Florals and Jams: Handmade by the bride
I love Kellee and Tom's Knoxville wedding for so many reasons. First, I feel like photographing this wedding was very serendipitous for the couple and I. Tom and I met probably close to 10 years ago, while at a photo convention in Las Vegas. I volunteered a couple years in a row for a company that Tom worked for and we all had the best time - and geeked out a lot over old film cameras. It was at one of the trade shows in Vegas that Tom mentioned his girlfriend Kellee and that she was really something special. He also mentioned that if he ever got married in life, he would love me to photograph his wedding. (This is the biggest compliment I could ever receive!)
This brings me to the second part that I love about this wedding. All of these years later, I received an e-mail from Tom that he had proposed to Kellee and asked if I would be their wedding photographer. I was beyond thrilled, because I totally remembered how truly excited he was about her all of these years.
The third reason I love Tom and Kellee's wedding was the fact that it was a true pleasure to get to know Kellee more and them as a couple. Their story really came full circle with a wedding in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is where the couple first met. It was a destination wedding for almost all of their guests and they had special, personalized moments along the way. Kellee's friend married the couple and their dog Maggie made appearances in literally almost every photo of the day. It was a gorgeous wedding and you could really feel the love that had grown between all of their family and friends over the years!
Tom and Kellee, thank you for inviting Liz and I down to photograph your wedding and for letting us shoot ALL those rolls of film! We're excited to see where life takes you two!
LOVEe
VENDORS//
Venue: Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum
Wedding Planning & Design: Honeybee Events
Dress: Allure Couture
Hair & Makeup: Amanda Maddox Salon
Suit: Banana Republic
Flowers: Honeybee Events
Catering: Buddy's Bar-B-Q
Cake: Litton's Market, Restaurant & Bakery
For those of us who have been to Chicago, we know how magical that city is. Raquel and Jared met one night out on the town and literally the rest is history! She is a beautiful, sweet woman who definitely found the man of her dreams in Jared and I am so very excited for their wedding!
Raquel grew up in Minnesota, so the couple is coming home to get married! We ventured downtown for a Mill City engagement session and it was the perfect day! Can we also talk about how fun Raquel's dress is? Swoon!
Congratulations to Raquel and Jared on their engagement!
LOVEe
Oh man, I don't even know where to begin in speaking about Kim and Jake's wedding! After a GREAT season of weddings, this was our last wedding to photograph for the year and it ended on an EPIC note. Kim and Jake hosted their wedding at the Grandview Lodge, so all of their guests from near and far had a weekend getaway in Northern Minnesota. The weather was perfect, the leaves and season of fall was in full effect and the sunshine gave us some amazing light.
Beyond the setting, there were many Jewish wedding traditions that took place and made for some absolutely unforgettable moments. If I could describe this wedding in one word, it would be celebratory. Everyone was so deeply happy and joyous for Kim & Jake and also so thankful to be a part of this time in their lives.
I couldn't think of a better way to round out the amazing year we have had with all of our couples. To Kimmy and Jake - thank you so much for inviting us to document this day. You are an amazing couple who is going to go so far in life and I can't wait to see where all of the adventure takes you!
LOVEe
VENDORS//
Venue and Catering: Grandview Lodge
Dress: Mira Zwillinger from L'atelier Couture Bridal
Event Planning: Allie Markman, Divine & You
Florist and Event Design: Bloom Designs
Stationary: Spark Letterpress
Decor: Dee's Decorating, Linen Effects and NP Event Space
Videography: Ladd Films
Entertainment: Northstar
Dessert: Edible Art
Ketubah: Alexandra Minkoff
Popcorn: Maddie and Maize
Lighting: AVEX
