Hannah & Ryan’s wedding was held at Hannah’s dad’s airplane hanger on their family property in Willow, Alaska. You could feel that this was a special place for their family, and it really added something unique to this wedding day. I have never seen a crowd of guests be more flexible and easy going…they moved […]

At nearly every wedding, something unexpected is bound to happen to keep everyone on their toes. The kinds of things that happen at Alaskan weddings can be especially interesting because of the weather and some of the more remote locations that we work at. Also, I personally tend to be a little accident prone and […]

A few years ago my father in law handed me a book called “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News From Small-Town Alaska” By Heather Lende. I think he knows that I listen to NPR and enjoy hearing people’s stories so he thought I would enjoy this book. I absolutely LOVED Heather’s perspective […]

Weddings like this somehow breathe new life in to my work each and every time. Its not what you might imagine when you first hear the word ‘wedding’, and that is probably why I love it so much. Mike & Melissa’s Hatcher Pass Lodge elopement was just the five of them. Just them, their three […]

When it rains on your wedding day they say it means good luck. By correlation that must mean that snow on your {early Summer} wedding day means *extra* good luck…right? Aelwen and Ralph had the best possible attitude about well, everything on their wedding day. I commented to a couple of their friends about the […]

Intimate wedding girdwood alaska If I could photograph a wedding like this one every weekend, I would. I love the feeling of intimate weddings. Generally there is very little stress and I think it is because there is comfort in knowing that everyone present is very important to the bride and groom. It feels like […]