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Field Notes · Weddings

A Wedding Above the Clouds

An elopement above the treeline, then dinner for thirty in a barn that smelled of pine.

A couple at golden hour
First light, and just the two of them.

They wanted to be married where the cell service ends. So we hiked — dress in a pack, suit jacket tied to a strap — and said the vows with the valley still full of cloud below us.

The best wedding pictures are the ones nobody poses for: the look between two people when they forget the camera is there. Up here, with the wind doing its best to steal the words, they forgot almost immediately.

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