Tahoe Wedding!

Last weekend I went to Tahoe to shoot a fabulous wedding that I booked after meeting the bride and groom at Sam & Aliisa's New Orleans Wedding back in January.

I flew out on Thursday and it was a crazy travel day. The airport was packed but I had received my upgrade about a week prior so I was good to go.

As I was about to board though, the gate agent made an announcement that the flight was oversold and they needed volunteers to take a later flight through Salt Lake City for a $600 travel voucher (which is basically cash for me since I buy so many plane tickets anyway). Without even thinking about it I surrendered my ticket. $$$$

I did work for about 5 hours in the lounge and then hopped on my flight to Salt Lake.

Once in Salt Lake I headed to my connecting flight to Sacramento and AGAIN they needed volunteers for an oversold flight!

So I gave up my ticket again and got another $400 voucher and went to the Salt Lake Lounge and did more work. It was a SUPER productive day. AND I made $1000!

I stayed overnight in Sacramento with cousin Charleen and Tim and their kiddos. Then picked up Allan around lunchtime Friday (he happened to be free so he came out to shoot with me) and we drove 2 hours up to beautiful Tahoe for the rehearsal dinner.

Dinner was lakeside at this DELICIOUS restaurant called the West Shore Cafe.

I took the bride and groom down to the "beach" and did a quickie engagement shoot.

Then we watched the gorgeous sunset as we sipped cocktails and ate delicious whores de orves.

Random coincidence. Liz (below) was also a guest at Sam & Aliisa's NOLA wedding. And at the time was totally single and caught the bouquet in the bouquet toss.

She's now dating the Tahoe bride's brother and they are the cutest couple and I hope I shoot their wedding because I'm sure it will also be fabulous.

Love this patio setup!

Wedding day we got ready at the venue. The bride's parents have a home in this private community of gorgeous lakeside summer homes.

The living room was decorated with stuffed geese so I just had to get this unusual shot. :-)

Then Alex and Steve did a first look and exchanged private vows before the ceremony.

It was a beauuutiful venue.

Photobomb!!!!

The ceremony was beautiful.

Woooo!

And of course there was a beautiful sunset.

There was lots of beautiful furniture set up and a giant tent.

The dance party was fun!

Thanks Allan for snapping these great photos of me at work!

Best job ever!!!!