Vail locals Joanna & Tim took a gamble having an outdoor, mid- October wedding in Vail and won. It was a warm, blue sky day and we even had a few remaining fall colors to work with. The ceremony was held in Lionshead on the beautiful deck at The Arrabelle, then we hopped on the local bus to celebrate the rest of the evening at The Lodge at Vail.
Congratulations Joanna & Tim, you were such a pleasure to work with and I had so much fun documenting your day!
What an incredible fall engagement photography session with Kelly & Sean! I can’t wait to photograph this stunning red haired bride and her handsome fiance next summer!
I’ve known Lisa and Jim since I moved to Colorado over five years ago and I was so honored when they asked me to photograph their wedding next summer. We met up in the mountains recently for an engagement shoot and couldn’t have timed it better. It was a perfect fall day with all the beautiful aspens at their peak. The colors were amazing.
Another amazing Boulder engagement photography session at Wonderland lake (and downtown briefly) with another wonderful couple. I am well aware that I do shoots at the lake often but in my opinion, that place is one of the most beautiful spots in all of Boulder, Colorado. Plus, each season and each session brings me different colors and different ideas. Congrats on your engagement Lisa & Eric!
Recently I had the pleasure to work alongside the very talented Kara Pearson Photography to photograph Molly and Eric’s Vail mountain wedding. I worked with the men, capturing them going through all of their pre-wedding rituals before we all met up on top of Vail mountain for a stunning first-look. The day was incredibly beautiful and their outside ceremony and reception at the Donovan Pavilion was a joy to document. Here are some of my favorite Vail mountain wedding photos from their day.
I had been eagerly awaiting Jenny & Dan’s Custer State Park wedding for over a year. The well traveled couple are writers who live in China and managed to wrangle up friends and family from around the globe to watch them wed in a spot Jenny had visited as a child and dreamt of getting married at one day. The Black Hills of South Dakota and Custer State Park are known for their sweeping vistas, glorious lakes and green prairies where wild buffalo still roam.
Jenny & Dan began their fun-packed wedding weekend with a Chuckwagon rehearsal dinner where guests were loaded into cloth covered wagons equipped with straw cowboy hats and personalized bandanas. We all rode through the state park sitting on bails of hay and singing along to old country songs until we reached a remote clearing where we feasted on steaks and buffalo burgers.
Their wedding was another picture perfect day and the ceremony site had an almost surreal backdrop with enormous boulders jutting straight out of Sylvan Lake. The happy couple put so much thought into the readings, music, and their beautiful personal vows, and three tutu wearing flower girls entertained guests with random hugging and high kicks.
The reception was held at the Sylvan Lake lodge where their tables were named after the numerous cities where they had lived from all over the world. Jenny & Dan also chose some of their favorite books as their centerpieces and guests were invited to take them home with them. Emotional speeches, tequila shots, streamers thrown around everyone (a Bolivian wedding tradition), their party was an unforgettable one and so was my time with them.
Sweet words from the gracious bride…
“Kira is wildly talented. She has an amazing eye and frames her shots perfectly. We loved her photojournalistic style from the get-go, and we hired her because we wanted to have clear, beautiful images of our friends and family, and – sure enough – we now have all of these excellent portraits of the people we love. Somehow Kira managed to be completely unobtrusive while capturing everything. We had many great people who helped us to create a wonderful wedding weekend, but Kira was one of the absolute best.”
