Weddings

Kate and Will | Great Northern Resort Wedding Photographer

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Traveling wedding photographer + photography/small biz educator.

Mesmerized by the way two people love each other, each so uniquely. I always leave room for dessert. Believe swear words are just sentence embellishers. Think indulgences are necessary in this life.

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Stories of two lovers making it all about them, as they should.

Kate & Will’s wedding at Great Northern Resort in West Glacier is one of those that I keep asking how is it over? Can we do it again? Can it just keep on going? I actually spent 4 days with Kate & Will and their 40 some guests. And by the wedding day I knew everyone in attendance by name. They brought their friends and family to one of the most beautiful places on earth and gave them quite the adventure. We spent one day on these fun red jammer tours all the way from one side of Glacier National Park to the other with a stop at a restaurant for lunch. We went rafting another day. And had a sunset dinner cruise on Flathead lake. They made this a time all of their guests won’t forget. Everyone came for a vacation, from Texas to Pennsylvania to Colorado to Montana to…. Jakarta…. and everywhere in between. It was incredible to become friends with all of these people and be on the “inside” yet still get to see the magic from the outside perspective. Kate and Will mentioned in their thank you speech to everyone that our characters aren’t completely original, that we are built with pieces from everyone in our lives and that they are the people they are because of those surrounding them. Even their wedding had a small touch from all of the weddings of their friends and family.

The wedding was beyond words. This perfectly curated elegant event set out in the woods. It fit Kate and Will to a tee. Every detail so beautiful. But the energy from those there is what made it come alive.

I’ve sat here typing and deleting and then pacing my apartment to come up with the words to describe it and each time I’m left blank… speechless. It was indescribable. The love and commitment these two have had to put into their long distance relationship to not only make it work but to have it thrive. Her father’s strong love and no matter how hard Kate and her dad tried to build up these walls to barricade their emotions the tears of joy fell anyway. The amount of ridiculousness and laughter that happened with them and their friends. And how they even stayed up til 4am on their wedding night just to see off the first set of friends leaving to the airport. Kate and Will your hearts are pure, generous and overflowing and surely we know you learned that from the people you have surrounded yourselves with.

Thank you for the honor of just witnessing it and the privilege of preserving it.

Two days after their wedding Kate, Will and I drove up to Many Glacier for a day after session with a sunset and a storm and the photos are unreal!!! This post is long enough so tomorrow I’ll share the day after as it deserves a space of it’s own.

XOXOXO