I have so many weddings that I need to blog!! Yikes!  I guess its good to be busy!

When I received my first email from Amy…she told me a little about her wedding…that it was going to be on a homestead near a river, there was raspberry rows, huge amazing trees and a tire swing….I started drooling and was jumping up and down inside!!! Then when I met with them and saw what a fun and loving couple they were…it just made me that much more excited to shoot their wedding. Then….we shot their engagement session at an amazing place they called the Kissing Tree…on the beach in Bellingham…and once I saw how comfortable they were in front of the camera (read: they were so into each other…they acted I wasn’t there!)…I knew their wedding would be amazing! And it was.

After I met Amy and her incredible group of gals that were her bridesmaids, and saw their all different bridesmaids dresses (turquoise and greens with pops of red!) and their all matching red satin shoes I just about flipped my lid! Why? Because! It was like Amy just crawled into my head and planned a wedding that would be so visually striking…just for me!:) It was a photographers dream!

She had so many cool DIY touches and details….I can’t wait to post more images from this amazing wedding!

Here’s some more from Colette & Bryan’s Wedding day! It was so much fun to be a part of. I loved her short style wedding dress…and those shoes! When I asked her which shoes were hers, she said, ” they are the ones that look like a garden!” ah…yes they do!

one of my favorite moments of this awesome wedding ceremony was when Bryan and Colette offered each other’s children each a ring, as they are celebrating the blending of their families. I had to say that I got a bit choked up, along with the audience! That happens to me quite a bit!

Wedding Dress: David’s Bridal

Flowers: Lindsay Lamb

DJ: Donny Does Music

Photography: Kaylee Eylander Photography

I love people in love…..especially when i can see a bride and groom in love on their wedding day. I love to see them looking across the room at the reception…and you can just see in their eyes how much they love each other. This is the way Sean and Kim looked at each other on their wedding day. It just made me so happy. Then later on, as the reception progressed, I noticed Kim’s mom and dad, as well as Sean’s mom and dad, dancing with each other on the dance floor…having fun, laughing and looking lovingly into each other’s eyes. I think that love is something you have to work hard at, maintain and cultivate…just like growing a plant (like I am failing at right now!). It takes water, sun, weeding, fertilizer and love to make a plant grow….and if it doesn’t have some of those elements, your plant is going to die. In my case, my tomato plants are dying from lack of water….boo. Anyway….love is good….but its not a set it and forget it kind of thing….

Ok….back to Sean and Kim! I just loved her Flamenco style wedding dress, (from From the Gown Up in Cute Downtown Snohomish! You have to go there!) and amazing Steve Madden Hot Pink wedding shoes ( I also wore steve madden hot pink wedding shoes!). This dress/ shoe combo was one of my very very favorites in all my years as a wedding photographer! So fun! Kim also wore some big bling on her ears, fingers and wrist…which brought the whole look together! So much fun!

I thought this old quaint church, Swan’s Trail Chapel, built in 1915 deserved a saloon style shot.

Snohomish Wedding Vendors:

Photography: Kaylee Eylander Photography

Wedding Dress: From the Gown Up, Snohomish, WA

Wedding Venue: Swan’s Trail Chapel, Snohomish WA

Catering: La Palmera, Mill Creek, WA (the yummiest taco salad ever!!)

I love it when people that are like me hire me. I love hot pink….Kim’s wedding party’s shoes were all different kinds of hot pink. I love peonies. Her wedding party bouquets were peonies (and they smelled amazing!). I love all different kinds of dresses….you guessed it…the girls had all different kinds of black dresses…..somehow, even though the girls were all wearing different dresses, it all came together beautifully….ps…I love things that are not all matchy matchy. All my kitchen chairs are different, but painted white with different shades of turquoise on the seats (maybe a future blog post!). I also have been collecting different kinds of blue and white dishes…that don’t match each other….Some people just don’t get it…but its right up my ally.

Anyway…back to Sean and Kim’s wedding! I just loved this new wedding venue in Snohomish, WA called Swan’s Trail Chapel. It is so amazing! It had so many places to shoot…and it was just so fun! I loved the nostolgia and quaintness of this place…it was built in 1915! Wow!

Snohomish Wedding Vendors:

Photography: Kaylee Eylander Photography

Wedding Dress: From the Gown Up, Snohomish, WA

Wedding Venue: Swan’s Trail Chapel, Snohomish WA

Catering: La Palmera, Mill Creek, WA (the yummiest taco salad ever!!)

I am a visual person. I love great design, color, shapes, and fonts. I don’t really know why, I just am built that way. And when i showed up to Cat and Todd’s wedding and saw the details coming together for this amazing wedding…I was so excited! I loved the blues turquoise and greens that flowed throughout the space, from the tables to the Chinese paper lanterns hanging over head.  The fonts on all the signs were the same, and it all just came together so beautifully! I thought to myself…this is Brittany’s specialty. Brittany of BBJean Events has a knack for taking a brides ideas…and bringing them out into a vision that is cohesive and becomes some of the most personal and beautiful weddings I have ever been a part of. The other thing Brittany has a knack for is putting brides and grooms at ease! They are just more relaxed than the typical bride because they know (and see) that Brittany is on the case…whatever the issue is!

If you have some ideas about your wedding…and they seem scattered, or unconnected….having a wedding planner can help you bring all those ideas together to create an amazing, personal and unique wedding that expresses exactly what you and your groom would like to say. Sometimes having someone on the outside (who also does this for a living!) is the perfect perspective to be able to bring it all together…..

These candles are the perfect example of the bride and groom and wedding planner working together to make the couple’s vision come true….The couple made the candles as favors (they smelled so amazing!!!) and the wedding planner made the stickers to apply to each. The font and colors were the same as the rest of the signage and invites! See Below!

I loved seeing this “fix it” box that had just about everything you could use or desperately need on a wedding day!

I loved hearing the story about the flowers…the bride, Cat, had told Britanny, “I love all the colors! Just do whatever you want!” and these are the amazing flowers that she came up with! So different…and wonderful!

These amazing rings were designed by the bride and groom, and executed by the talented MJB Jewelers. Wow!! I’ve never seen anything like them!!!

Andi, from Pure Bliss Desserts helped bring this amazing vision all together with this incredibly cute (and deeeeee-lightful) cake with anchors, sea shells and the cutest (and only) octopus adorning the top of a wedding cake.

Wedding Planner: BBJean Events

Flowers: BBJean Events

Photography: Kaylee Eylander Photography

Amazing Wedding Dress: Belle Bridal, Bellingham, Washington

Wedding Cake/Yummy Lemon Tarts: Pure Bliss Desserts Bellingham, WA

DJ: Wannadance Mobile DJ

Catering: Avenue Catering

Event Rentals: Pacific Party Canopies

Restroom Rental: Royal Restrooms

Cocktail Hour Band: Ballyhooey

Limo Rental: Rareform Limo