Minneapolis Elopement portraits can be big on style. A touch of 80s sets the stage for this very fun downtown Minneapolis elopement, starting with Minneapolis City Hall and ending with dinner at Spoon & Stable. Getting a little weird for your elopement portraits After photographing hundreds of weddings, I find that perhaps by biggest honor is getting to see the silly side of people. I really know people are comfortable when they let me document their laughter, their funny faces, and their weird. And so, for this small downtown elopement, I so enjoyed every minute of the slightly-80s-dancing-laughing-classy joyfest that…
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Small moments are still a big deal.
So, people come to plan their elopements for all sorts of reasons. That is awesome, and however you come to an elopement, know that you can have a beautiful and meaningful ceremony to mark the start of your marriage.
Choosing a more intimate celebration of your wedding means you get to focus on the most important things – you and your partner.
I approach elopement photography with two goals – document your joy together, and make sure the photos feel natural and intimate.
Marie and Andrew’s City Hall wedding was pre-pandemic, so it was small but not socially distanced. What would the photos look like if I had shot it during restrictions? Definitely more masks during the cocktail hour and the ceremony. Otherwise, very similar – small group, outside photos when we can.
Katie and Jason were ahead of the curve – intimate wedding at Como Conservatory (in the sunken garden – the best smelling wedding venue in the world) and a reception at a restaurant in Cathedral Hill.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. – Andrew Wyeth Before I gush about Laura and Eric’s Aster Cafe Wedding in Winter I think I should make it clear – the temperature outside was around zero. I think that should be said before anything else. In winter, we agree to share our burden: we remove our jackets, and scarves, and hats. And we agree, for this time, to be warm together. To find a corner of this bleak cold, sometimes beautiful and sometimes dangerous…
From their classic St Olaf College Wedding to their late night dancing, these two grooms had it all Days that start with bow ties and end with dance parties are pretty spectacular. I would expect no less from these two grooms after their engagement photographs turned into an impromptu champagne party. And so it was with this wedding day – a formal garden party ceremony and reception on the gorgeous spring grounds of St Olaf College. A reception with a grey ombre cake and doughnuts, very good friends, toasts that made even this wedding photographer tear up a bit, and…
Heather and Carl, their decades-in-the-making romance and their tremendous joining of families in joy, was a pleasure to document. Thank you for sharing Carleton College with me, on a gorgeous summer day. View other intimate weddings and elopements
I’ve had a difficult time blogging Nancy and Tiffany’s wedding. Not because it was hard to choose images, but because by blogging it I’m sort of putting an end marker on our time together. I don’t really want to magic to end, I suppose. Which is to say, it’s taken me like a year to finally write about their lovely slightly rainy Minnesota lake wedding. We started at Nancy’s parents house, where rain kept us inside for photos, leading to my discovery that a rain drop sprinkled window is makes for a moody backdrop, even if Nancy and Tiffany had…