Jen & Iyad - A Full Day's Wedding Celebration (June 2010)

Its not every day that someone's profession lets he/she into a person's family and its culture, quite like wedding photography does. Traditions and their importance, are what professionals like us need to be able to anticipate, respect, capture and clearly portray with the end result. 


Josh and I spent a whole day with Jen and Iyad, starting in the morning. Josh at Iyad and his family's home in Troutdale, I with Jen and her family in Happy Valley. Hours later, we all met up at the church. A moving celebration; a wave of portraits (that I would have not easily been able to coordinate, weren't it for awesome helpers - part of Jen's family... thank you!); then a trip with the Bride and Groom to Laurelhurst Park in a classic Rolls Royce; then the reception at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. All in all, we spend 12 and a half of the most involved and active and moving hours ever.


Jen & Iyad have a family with an immense and open heart. Josh and I felt right at home with everyone, and felt as if we had known them all for much longer than just that day. I've shed a few tears here and there at the most memorable weddings I've photographed, but NOTHING like at this one. Both Josh and I literally started gushing tears out of both our eyes while trying to shoot the initial, emotional, first entry and first family dance at the reception. That's right, we're admitting it: we lost it!

The raw energy and emotion of the celebration got the best of us! We had an amazing time, we truly did!

We've never taken this many photographs of a wedding day before, so bear with us as we try to summarize all that happened in a short little Sneak Peek! ;)

We love you, Jen & Iyad!

- Jen & Iyad's Engagement Session at Timberline Lodge and Trillium Lake, Mt Hood, OR
- Wedding day: Saturday June 26th, 2010
- Videographers: Beyond The Eye Films; Robert G Pallotta (and his awesome team!)
- Ceremony: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church; Portland OR
- Reception: Crowne Plaza Hotel; Portland OR

   

{Wedding!} Meredith & Delane - Gorge Crest Winery, WA - Bright and colorful day!

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UPDATE!

All of the images from their wedding are edited and on pictage!

Here is a slide show of around 250 of our most favorite ones, starting from their Engagement Session at Cathedral Park in Portland, aaaaall the way to the end of their wedding day at Gorge Crest Winery!

We love our brides! :)

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This venue is officially one of our newest favorite ones in the area!

Gorge Crest Winery is on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge and its beautiful!

It was built and organized to be exclusively catered to wedding celebrations.

The wine they produce is made for and distributed only to the wedding guests, it is not sold anywhere else.

And its delicious!

Besides the beautiful venue, Meredith and Delane were also fantastic! Always fun to work with and photograph. They are fun and obviously completely in love with one another. Nothing but laughs and hugs of joy and pure bliss, with the two of them. 

Josh and I photographed their fall colors under the St John's Bridge engagement session, in Portland, last October, and knew right away that we would hit it off. Their attitude towards life and their happiness is contagious. Meredith's smile is especially addicting! ;)

Their DJ turned the party up a few notches towards the end of the evening and wow did everyone have fun! The dance floor was packed and the music was being mixed non-stop! Then the sunset hit and wow, what an even more amazing panorama surrounding this day. One of the very best wedding days yet!

- Date: Friday June 25th, 2010

- Venue: Gorge Crest Winery, Underwood WA (owner's name is Ronda)

- Make Up and Hair: Patricia Martin, Hood River, OR

- Wedding Dress: 2B Bride, Elizabeth Darcy Collection; purchased at Charlotte's Bridal, Portland OR

- Wedding DJ: DJ Moe Funk, Portland OR

- Cake: Papa Haydn, Portland OR

- Flowers: Tammy's Floral, Hood River OR

- Catering: Cork 'n Bottle, Hood River, OR