Yellowstone Park Wedding

Morning light at Yellowstone falls proposal

Ryan contacted me in the early months of this year with his plan to make the long trip to Yellowstone National Park and propose marriage to Payton, the love of his life. When planning a day in Yellowstone in the first week of October, you never know what sort of weather you may get. At about 8000 feet above sea level, you may have 65 and sunny or, 15 degrees and snow. It’s a roll of the dice. As this date was coming up on the calendar I watched as the temperatures were dropping and precipitation was on it’s way sooner rather than later. Fortunately, the weather held!

I headed out before sunrise to get to our meeting place that looks directly into the face of Yellowstone falls. Everything went like clock work, the surprise was a great success and then we took a drive to several other of my favorite locations for photos.

Congratulation to this wonderful couple!

Enjoy the view!

Happy, happy, happy!

Antoinette and Edinson

In Yellowstone National Park

Such a wonderful surprise to meet up with my clients in Yellowstone National Park and to my delight, find them in the most beautiful East Indian wedding attire! Being a student of the many different ways we see God, ourselves and the universe, I was absolutely giddy to have this opportunity to capture their wedding ceremony and families. The ceremony was so moving. The joy brought tears to my eyes as I tried to focus and capture the streaming moments of love and emotion. Phew! It was awesome! Then we took off for a steep hike down to a viewing platform right in front of the lower falls for the most fantastic background one could ever imagine. We had a delightful baptism of rain as we ascended back up the trail to our vehicles… happily dampened but not soaked!

Oh God… how I love my job! Thank you!

Chantal and David

Yellowstone National Park is a remarkable location for a wedding. The historic chapel always brings it’s magic to any wedding ceremony.

The chapel, built in 1913 during the Fort Yellowstone days is still alive and well today. It was the last existing building completed during the army era. Built of native stone with a slate roof and oak furnishings.

Chantal and David married here on August 5th in the presence of a small group of their families. Then I set out with the couple into the stellar beauty of Yellowstone for photos.

Yellowstone Park Wedding

Fairy Falls YNP

Yellowstone Park weddings are always an adventure.

Sommer and Ryan brought their families and friends together in Yellowstone National park for an intimate wedding. It was quite the experience! First of all I was held up in traffic by a motorist that went off the road in Yellowstone and traffic was stopped cold for 30 minutes. I always try to account for traffic when I’m meeting clients in the park, but this nearly exceeded my buffer time. I arrived at the trail head parking area, grabbed my gear and headed to the meeting place. There they were all waiting… hmmmm! Fortunately I was only 4 minutes late, so off we went at a good clip up the trail that was 2.4 miles to the falls.

Well it seems that in all the excitement, the junction in the trail that headed to the falls was overlooked and we walked a mile in the wrong direction. Yikes. Fortunately Ryan caught the error and we all turned around and back tracked awhile to redirect up the correct trail toward the falls.

Alas, we reached the this amazing place to find the perfect early evening light. It was absolutely gorgeous. This place took my breath away, as if i wasn’t already breathless from the brisk hike at that altitude! It was a lovely wedding with hearts afire in the joining of these two and their sons and daughters.

Enjoy the view!

Yellowstone Park Fairy lake wedding
And then there was the bubbly!!! cheers!