With the start of 2018 now upon us I can't help but look back and reflect on the past year and boy, WHAT A YEAR! 2017 brought me so many amazing changes both in my personal and professional life.
I moved my studio into a new suite in the Academy building, which I couldn't be more in love with. I finally got to say goodbye to my part time job and now officially run my photography business full time which absolutely paid off because I had my busiest year ever!
My personal life brought me even more amazingness. Took an amazing 5 state road trip, went camping and had spontaneous beach trips with my best friend and love, Kainoa. Oh yeah, and we got MARRIED! After 13 years of knowing one another, a very twisted path and a whole lot of love, we finally got to tell each other, I Do!
We had a wonderful small wedding that was so totally us. We eloped at Yale Lake in Ariel, Washington. We originally had plans to get married in The Columbia River Gorge but thanks to the wildfires we had to change our plans just 3 weeks before our wedding date. That didn't detour us at all, our spontaneous nature and love of all things outdoors made it easy to find a new place to tie the knot. Our very good friend Ben, better known as Link, married us while we wore matching Vans high tops.
One of the best highlights of the day was that my amazing new parents-in-law surprised us by flying Kainoa's sister Kea in from Hawaii for our special day. Neither of us had any idea and this was the first time Kainoa had the chance to see his sister in years so it was the best gift we could have ever asked for. I was still on my way up to the lake when Kainoa found out his sister was there but I am so very happy I had such an amazing photographer to capture the moment for me.
I couldn't be happier with the way everything turned out. It was an absolutely perfect day and just the right way for us to start the rest of our lives together. Kainoa, I love you so very, very much and I couldn't be happier or more proud to call myself your wife. Here is to a lifetime of crazy adventures together! <3
Special thanks to Irina of Irina Negrean Photography for the amazing photography, Cynthia of Flower Friends for the stunning flowers, Brides For A Cause for the beautiful dress and to all of our amazing friends and family that made this day possible.
Me being little miss independent and doing everything for myself. It wouldn't be me if it were any other way.
Because I was 7 weeks pregnant at this point and had to constantly snack to keep from getting sick.
The moment Kainoa saw his sister. I love the expression and the water bottle drop. Such a perfect moment captured.
We are super non-traditional and didn't have an aisle for my father to walk me down so I opted to do a Father Daughter first look. It was perfect.
He was a bit nervous to see me and I had to tell him it was ok to hug and kiss me.
Once he knew he could touch me he immediately relaxed and we turned into our goofy selves.
We totally had to get hyped to get married because that's just the kind of people we are.
We make a lot of pinky promises to each other but this was the ultimate one
Kainoa got the idea to leave a little piece of ourselves in the lake so he wrote our initials on a rock and I threw it in.
Our amazing family
My amazing flowers and our kickass shoes!
These photos sums us both up so perfectly!
Because I am a photographer, I had to bring one of my working polaroid cameras with us and of course had to of course incorporate into our photos. I can't wait to show the polaroids to our kids!
Beautiful! So happy for you!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!! 💗💗
DeleteThis is beautiful. I hope you have as many happy years as I have.
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