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Marissa and Geoff | Ahwahnee Hotel Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:56 +0000

Marissa and Geoff were married on a beautiful, warm day in Yosemite National Park. After getting ready and having a tea ceremony at a cabin in the Yosemite West development we all rode together down into the valley, navigating some epic summertime weekend traffic! Then it was time for the ceremony underneath the old apple tree on the Ahwahnee Hotel’s Wedding Lawn. I’m so excited to be able to shoot 5 different weddings in Yosemite this summer and fall, it’s an amazing place! Enjoy a few of my favorite images from the day…

Lauren and Bryan | Yosemite Chapel, Ahwahnee Hotel Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:12:31 +0000

I have a pretty cool job, for sure, but its coolness reaches a whole new level when I get to “work” in Yosemite. It’s still unreal to me when I arrive that I’m so fortunate to be trusted with photographing a couple’s wedding and to top it off I get to do it in one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. This is Laruen and Bryan’s day in Yosemite, enjoy my favorites!

Sarah and Edward | From the Wedding Lawn at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park

nate — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:08:01 +0000

I gotta love a May that sends me to Yosemite National Park TWICE for weddings. The first was an amazing day, and Sarah and Edward’s wedding didn’t disappoint either. After several straight days of rain – and more rain in the forecast for the wedding day – remarkably the clouds parted and didn’t drop more than the tiniest of a sprinkle at any point during the day. Sarah was total trooper marching around the park, unafraid of a little dirt, in the quest for some amazing portraits. Sarah and Edward were married on the Wedding Lawn and the historic Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley following an afternoon roaming Cook’s Meadow, El Capitan Meadow, and the Yosemite Falls trails for their portrait session. Their reception followed the ceremony in the Solarium inside the Ahwahnee with dancing following in the Winter Club Room. Below are a few of my favorites from the day…Enjoy!

PS: Yes, that’s a bear. I went outside at dusk to get a shot or two of the Ahwahnee (see the last image as well as the vertical showing the solarium and the sunset image of Half Dome). I took the first image and noticed through the trees that the sunset was hitting Half Dome. So I started to walk across the meadow to find a better angle through the trees, looking at the LCD on the back of my camera as I walked. I look up after a few steps and just a few yards in front of me was a huge bear! For a moment I just froze, looking at him, looking at me. Then he walked off and headed towards the trees at the far end of the meadow. It was at that moment that I realized, DUH!, I have a camera so I fired off a quick couple of shots and then headed out to take the shot of Half Dome as I intended.

Heather and Andy | A Yosemite Wedding from the Historic Chapel and Ahwahnee Hotel

nate — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:18:01 +0000

Heather called me just a few short months ago to ask me about shooting her wedding in Yosemite. Of course I nearly leapt out of my chair at the chance. I’ve been going to Yosemite frequently since I was a young child. Many of the earliest photographs I ever made were in the park, so the prospect of shooting weddings there gets me all kinds of excited. I’ve photographed a few weddings in Yosemite Valley and I look forward to shooting many more Yosemite weddings. Below are a few of my favorites from Heather and Andy’s wedding from the historic chapel in Yosemite Valley and their reception in the beautiful Mural Room in the old Ahwahnee Hotel – and of course many portraits taken at several locations in the valley including Cook’s Meadow and El Capitan Meadow. Stay tuned for another Yosemite wedding in a week or so!