Painted Rock Lodge offered a gorgeous backdrop for Alicia and Tim’s fun filled wedding. It was just perfect – the colors, the flowers, the setting, and all the family and friends who came from near and far, and had so many beautiful things to say, I almost teared up a few times myself!

Nicola fell in love with Tahoe while vacationing back in 2000, and so her and John came all the way from England to celebrate their love in an intimate ceremony with their families at the North Tahoe Event Center. They chose a Thursday morning so the beach would not be so crowded – it worked out perfectly, and the colors were phenomenal!

Tahoe showed off all it has to offer on Jenna and Brian’s big day at Tunnel Creek Lodge – deep blue skies, puffy clouds, sun, heat, thunderstorm, pouring rain, raging wind…. but the ceremony was held outside, and so was the dancing! : )) Only dinner had to be turned into an impromptu inside affair, which Blue Onion Catering dealt with masterfully. The bride and groom took it all in stride and were happy as can be! We were rewarded with a spectacular sunset.


Jenna owns a pastry shop in Incline Village and made everything on the huge dessert buffet herself! It all looked so inviting, I almost put my camera down to indulge… almost.

ceremony, reception location: Tunnel Creek Lodge

catering: Blue Onion

dessert buffet: Sunshine Pastry

entertainment: JumpStart

bride’s necklace: grandma

Now here’s a bride who couldn’t stop smiling!! : ) Amy and Brett said their vows at the Lodge at Tahoe Donner, after portraits at Loch Leven Lodge’s pier at Donner Lake. It was a picture-perfect day, with every detail oh-so-gorgeous. I loved all the wooden signs! My favorite detail – you guessed it – the shoes!!
Amy and Brett were once again such a joy to be around… these two are truly made for each other!

The fabulous vendors and details:

ceremony, reception location, catering: The Lodge at Tahoe Donner

florist: Martha Bernyk

hair: kolor by kori

make-up: Alli McGinnis

videography: Craig Musni

DJ: Keith Switzer

wedding pies (instead of cake!): Machados

bride’s dress: Pronovias

bride’s dress and jewelry from: Joanna’s Bridal

bride’s shoes: Steve Madden

Kathy and Colin got married at Northstar-at-Tahoe last Saturday, in two beautiful ceremonies – one Christian, one Thai. This was my first Asian ceremony of any sort, so naturally I was very excited to learn about their traditions, and to be able to shoot it with all its vivid colors and details!
The day went by in a heartbeat, with an exceedingly happy Bride and Groom, who are so much in love and such a great match. Congrats, you two, and all the best!!

The fabulous vendors and details:


ceremony, reception location, catering: Northstar-at-Tahoe


florist: Garden of Weedon


string quartet: Dolanc String Quartet


cake: Cake Tahoe


DJ: Zeb Early


Kathy’s dress: Alfred Sung


Kathy’s rings: The Shane Compay


Colin’s ring: handmade by Maya Kini

Here are Tiffany and Jamie’s beach portraits at Zephyr Cove. It was gorgeous with mystic light as some smoke was creeping over the West Shore mountains. Love these!

Her feet hurt and so he gave her his shoes to walk in – so funny!!

Oh so awesome! I will have to do 2 blog posts, too many shots to share! Tiffany and Jamie got married last Saturday at Logan Shoals Vista Point, in a very intimate ceremony. I had a feeling this would be good – no rush to make it to a reception – and brought Danielle to help with rocking lighting.


Of course it helped to have a gorgeous bride, a couple that is amazingly in love and up for anything I suggested! They were just fabulous!


Here are the shots from Logan Shoals, Zephyr Cove in the next one:

Where to begin… with Danielle’s 10am phone call for help as she was in the hospital (she’s fine!)… a bride who looked like Marilyn Monroe… or with their love story which brought me to tears? The latter! Aud and Kaare are both from Norway, came to the States as kids, and first dated when they were 19/20; but had to go separate ways. In all the years to follow they only met once through friends at an Norwegian event. Now both grandparents and widowed, they met again earlier this year and got married shortly after – 51 years after they first dated! They then held a wedding at Garwoods, where one of Aud’s sons got married years ago. Look at the love between them… so beautiful.

Perfect planning and perfect ingredients make for a perfect wedding – albeit with a smidgen of wind. OK, a whole lot of wind! Tahoe Ocean even shut the pier down, but I love love love the movement in the hair and veil. And what great models these two were! Never ending smiles and open to any suggestions. See for yourself how gorgeous everything was….

The fabulous vendors and details:


ceremony, reception location, catering: Hyatt / Incline Village


florist: Christina | A Bud and Beyond / Incline Village


make-up: Jen | kiss & make-up / Tahoe City


DJ: Larry Williams | Reno Tahoe DJ Company


videography: Sky | An XOXO Wedding Video

I emergency second shot this wedding, as Nicole was unable to make it, and her second shooter Danielle Hankinson took over – it was a fabulous event, great people, happy people, fun people – and such a relaxed bride and groom, who had just undergone an appendectomy the Monday prior to the wedding! I think these two can make it through anything!


Danielle and I (and all the kids) were loving the parasols, and check out the sapphire rings which were the most beautiful bridesmaids gifts. And yes, 4 guys ended up in the lake…

Inspired by Orasis Photography… how lucky that I was able to shoot from above!
There really aren’t many spots like that around here. In fact, can’t think of any others…