Love Conquers All | Shaw Nature Reserve and Pacific Opera House Wedding

Alex and Emily share such a special love story and we feel incredibly lucky to have been there to witness these two amazing souls wed.

Their day started as most of these Fall days lately with a big chance of rain. Nobody seemed too worried, Alex and Emily were just too excited to marry each other to let rain bother them. Before the ceremony as it was raining, their sweet friends and family packed up the chairs that were set up for their outdoor ceremony to move into an indoor facility. However, Alex had a gut feeling the rain would stop, and insisted everyone move all the chairs back outside….. AND HE WAS RIGHT! Strangely enough it was raining everywhere else in the city, except over the part of the city we all were.

Alex is a musician and Emily is a designer, the two of them together are an amazing team. With that being said, this wedding was not your normal wedding at all. It was filled with artistry at every turn. You could just feel their love and personalities shine through every detail of their wedding day.

They chose to marry at Shaw Nature Reserve where Alex proposed to Emily….I mean….how incredibly sweet, sentimental and romantic. Being creatives they are also adventurous and let me pursue fun creative ideas with their photos, like going to an abandoned Route 66 motel for photos. Their reception was at the Pacific Opera House which had the coolest Moulin Rouge vibe to it. Dinner was served on vintage china that they collected for their reception. I can’t say what my favorite detail was about that day, but their eclectic vintage china collection to me was in my top 3 favorite details.

I feel like I couldn’t do this story any justice without mentioning the fact that Emily had lost her beloved father a few years ago. Even though he could not be there physically, you could strongly feel his presence. From the photo she had of him on her shoe, so he could still walk her down the aisle, to the photos of him there, to the speeches from her Mom and her speech she made about him in place of what would have been their Father-Daughter dance. After her incredible speech that left everyone in tears, she invited everyone to join her to dance to “All She Wants To Do is Dance” by Don Henley, a song that her and her Dad listened to all the time together. It was an amazing moment!

I am seriously so in love with everything about them and their wedding day! The amount of photos in this blog post doesn’t even scrape the surface of how many photos I am delivering to them. I just had to draw the line somewhere which was hard. 🙂 Enjoy!