When you decide to get married outdoors in Seattle, you have to be prepared for any type of weather. While Lis and Jeff’s Golden Gardens wedding was overcast (and, um, not so “golden”), the sun managed to shine through on their reception, held at the Carkeek Park conservation center.

This wedding was extremely SIMPLE, from beginning to end. Barefoot on the beach, and relaxing in the woods. I love these kind of laid-back, let’s-just-enjoy-this-moment events.

And to say that they love each other is clearly an understatement. They are mad about each other, and I could not be happier for their nuptials!

Here are some highlights from the day!

RIck and I were thrilled to be Elizabeth and Ryan’s wedding photographers. They flew in from Massachusetts for a private destination wedding. They decided on a tiny family-only ceremony at South Beach on San Juan Island with a reception at the Palindaba Lavender Farm. What a spectacular day! The weather couldn’t have been better, the love couldn’t have been more apparent, and the scenery couldn’t have been more “Pacific Northwest”. We enjoyed this wedding immensely, not the least of which were the wonderful people we met there, including the fantastic bride and groom who we’d not met before they flew in.

As always, we present a gallery of selected images from the day. Enjoy!

]]> http://www.baisafoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=1396 http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1388 http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1388#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:48:01 +0000 Jackie http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1388 Just a couple of photos of the very dreamy San Juan Island wedding of Elizabeth and Ryan, who flew in from Massachussets to get married.

A full wedding blog coming soon!

In a lavender field

On a bluff

On the beach

It was a dark and stormy Seattle day.

Sounds like the opening to a horror flick, but in all honesty, it’s how Seattle’s weather has been up until about a week or two ago. Julia and Damon are getting married in two months, so we didn’t want to put their engagement shots off any longer, so we just went with the weather. I think the results are moody and contemplative, with a little bit of playfulness thrown in there.

They wanted shots taken with their son, Cedar, since they are a solid family unit. So, this is part family shoot, part engagement shoot, and 100% pure love.

All shots were taken in and around Alki Beach in West Seattle.

As always, I’m posting the highlights from our session. Enjoy!

I worked with Lis a few years ago and have kept somewhat in touch over the years. She’s a wonderful person and I was excited to hear she’d found a really wonderful guy, Jeff. When she asked me to photograph their upcoming beach wedding, I was thrilled! I can’t hardly wait to capture them tying the knot. As evidenced from these photos, they are very much in love, and he adores her (and likewise).

All photos were shot on a rainy day at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens east of Seattle. What a lovely place, and it was the spot for one of their first dates. Thanks for braving the rain, you two lovebirds!

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I love my job. And it’s couples like Rebecca and Scott that make me love my job even more. They are fun, sincere, and really love each other. There was so much joy on their big day!

They met each other at a photography meetup, so they are both into photography, too. You might remember they used vintage cameras in their engagement shoot. At their wedding, they had their friend Danny go around and take Polaroid photos of all of the guests. They got some great shots from what I could tell. Good fun!

The wedding was held at a church on Greenlake, which just happens to be a fabulous place to take wedding photos. What a gorgeous day (chilly but gorgeous). After that, they had an old Bentley (with driver) take them down to their reception at the fabulous Blue Ribbon Cooking School - a great venue next to the Lake Union houseboats - a perfect locale for a sit-down dinner party.

And would you just LOOK at how happy they are!! Sigh. They are just such an amazing couple and I’m honored to have been the one to document the day for them. It was beautiful from beginning to end.

Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Mongrain! Here are my favorite photos from the day. And I almost forgot to note that the absolutely FABULOUS Kristel Wyman of Vancouver, BC, came down from Canada to shoot this event with me. I could not have done so well without her. She is a fabulous partner!

And now, they are on to the “living happily ever after” part.

Thanks to Kristel Wyman, who came all the way from Vancouver, BC to assist me with this wedding. Here are some of the highlights of the day!

]]> http://www.baisafoto.com/?feed=rss2&p=1258 http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1249 http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1249#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 06:50:09 +0000 Jackie http://www.baisafoto.com/?p=1249 While I process their wedding photos, I wanted to give a sneak peak at the photos from Rebecca and Scott’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. They just returned from a fabulous honeymoon in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and they have a zillion photos to go through, but I thought I’d add a couple more.

I just think they are the bee’s knees. Check them out!

A longer blog to follow!

Hello there! I haven’t updated this blog regularly in a while, mainly because it was off-season for weddings. Now that wedding season is in full swing again, expect some great blogs coming up shortly, particularly some “sneak peaks” at the most recent weddings I’ve shot.

In the meantime, if you’re so inclined, check out another blog I started in January, mainly for food photography and writing. I’ve shot quite a number of food-related events, documented my visits to eateries, posted recipes from cookbooks I’ve purchased, and will be reviewing new cookbooks and more restaurants in the coming weeks. Lots of activity over there!

This site has taken up the bulk of my off-season from weddings. Please have a look and, if you’re so inclined, bookmark that site, too (www.jackiewrites.com), to follow my adventures in food. Here are a few shots to tempt you.

I had the privilege of photographing the most delicious goods the other day: various hand-dyed yarns by Seattle’s Yarn Maven, Desiree of Stricken Smitten. This yarn is just yummy. I had heard great things about it from knitter friends of mine, but when I saw the real goods, I was indeed stricken, and then smitten. This is the kind of stuff you want to pile on the floor in a big mound and roll around in.

Ahem.

(I really did NOT do this to your yarn, Desiree. I promise!)

In any case, she had asked for a few glamor shots of her goods, for potential publication, and I was only too happy to oblige. And if you are a knitter, I highly recommend picking up some of her luxury skeins at her Etsy shop, linked above. You won’t be disappointed. This is high-quality stuff, and I can only hope that I portrayed this in the following photos. She pretty much gave me artistic freedom with this shoot, so I went nuts.

Here are, as always, a few of my favorite shots from the shoot! Enjoy!