On Friday I was in Cooper Landing for Julia & Simon’s wedding at Alaska Heavenly Lodge. This one goes down in the story-book for crazy bump in the road.. or, shooter in the road. At about 11:30am the Seward Highway was closed for hours on end due to a report of a gunmen/hostage situation at Turnagain Pass. In the end nothing happened and they never found the guy, but it put a big spin on the day’s plans. The caterer was stuck on the other side along with about half of the guests. There was a distinct change of flow, quickly, as everyone went through the different stages of acceptance.. At first Julia was pretty upset, then she and Simon began to work through it, then they had an awesome and fun day despite the change of schedule and missing guests. This was a great wedding at one of our favorite places to shoot! We also got in some time before the ceremony down at Kenai Lake, at our secret photo-fishing spot.

A Kenai Penninsula wedding weekend it was! Philip in Moose Pass and Karen and I both in Cooper Landing shooting with Josh and Heather.. 5 Chugach’ers down south in one day! Good times. Josh and I tore up Laura and Charle’s wedding and took so many photos, I don’t even want to edit this wedding now. There’s thoussssands and thousssands… I think Josh must have just held the motor drive and walked around all day with a 200 gig hard drive on his back. I might have done something similar too. Either way, there were so many cool spots we went to with such a cast of characters that this blog post won’t do it justice as is typical of these posts. You really need to just sift through an entire wedding to understand all the stuff we’re getting. Anyway – the wedding was great and Laura and Charles were great too. They were married at the Alaska Heavenly Lodge, which I must say, is a pretty heavenly place to take wedding photos if you’re into good backdrops and mountain beauty. If you’re not into those things, you might not like it. As you can see from the pics, these two are totally cute together and despite the constant threat of rain, the weather held strong and it was a good day!