By Monique and Scott

We absolutely love our HideOut couples, and Laura and Jared were definitely among our favorites last season. They were down to earth and outdoorsy with a bit of whimsical Shire energy as well – so fun! People who choose a wedding weekend in a relatively remote mountain setting with a lake, and both lodge and camping options value the importance of bringing everyone together to share fun times, stories, activities and great food for an extended wedding weekend celebration.

There are so many great spots at The HideOut for photography … from the western saloon to the granite hilltops to canoeing on the lake. And this wedding had the added bonus of some colorful yellow aspens in the fall. The dance floor was packed all night, and we learned a new song when the bride’s brother in law had the whole dance floor circled around him – Cut the Mozzarella!

Scott and I did this wedding together as a team, so they got the complimentary 10×10 wedding album with their package, here is what it looks like: Wedding album video

Vendor team:

Venue: The HideOut

Photography team: Us! Lake Tahoe wedding photography

Planner: Stephanie Marie and Co

DJ: DJ Brock and Steele

Caterer: Eats

Florist: Rustic Roots Floral

By Monique and Scott

Taylor and Petr got exactly what they wanted for their Palisades Tahoe wedding: snow on their wedding day! As a local South Lake Tahoe couple who enjoys skiing together, they had a ski day with friends and family the day before the wedding, and then what started out as a light drizzle in the valley on their wedding day, turned into snow falling during their ceremony and reception at High Camp.

Their first look was in the meadow during the drizzle, so after they had a few minutes to enjoy the view of the mountains, we headed back to their rental house and did some more group portraits indoors. Their adorable dog Benny was part of their wedding, and he was a Big sweet heart. We love when people incorporate their dogs on their wedding day, and we always make sure to keep an eye on them and capture whatever they may be up to before, during, and after the ceremony.

DJ Sawyer kept the dance floor packed all evening. And there was even an impromptu jump rope session with several of the guests’ ties knotted together for the jump rope!

Scroll down to the end of the wedding day to see the ski day images. They started out the session in their wedding attire, and then they changed outfits mid morning to meet up with friends and family. The session started out in a thick cloud at the top of the mountain, and ended with the group doing the snow snake in their springtime attire!

Vendor team:

DJ: DJ Sawyer

Wedding Planner: Gianna, owner of Wild and Lovely Events

Flowers: Twine Floral Co

Hair and Make up: Wanderlust Beauty Collective

Venue: Palisades Tahoe

Wow, how do we sum up all the amazing weddings we photographed and did video for around Lake Tahoe and beyond in just one post? This past year brought us all the way from 8200 feet at High Camp at Palisades down to sea level along the California coast and so many places in between!

Here are just a few images from each of our weddings that we documented this past year. It is really hard to only choose a few images from each wedding, so we will of course be following up with full blog posts from all of the weddings we haven’t blogged yet.

We are natural story tellers with our photojournalistic backgrounds, so the upcoming blog posts will include the highlights from the story of each wedding day, from the getting ready process through to the reception party. We also did a few micro weddings this year, still a popular trend for couple’s who want to keep things simple and intimate.

While this post showcases our still photography, something we have been doing in the Tahoe area for the past 20 years, it doesn’t showcase Scott’s more recent video work. To see some of the video work Scott has done, head over to our Youtube page: Lake Tahoe videography

One of our wedding packages includes photography, videography and a beautiful coffee table album, all done by us as a husband and wife team. We never hire outside editing or album design companies. And when you hire us, you will be working with us from the planning stages through delivery.

Scroll down to the end of this post to see the links for each of these amazing wedding venues featured here.

Lake Tahoe area wedding venues featured in this blog post:

The HideOut

Palisades Tahoe

Gansberg Ranch

The Arch at Lakeside Beach

Sand Harbor Nevada State park

Tahoe Cruises

Gar Woods

By Monique

It is always fun to do documentary wedding photography at a “new to me” wedding venue, this one being the incredible Gansberg Ranch in Gardnerville. After photographing weddings at Lake Tahoe and surrounding areas in the Sierra, it is a great change of pace to exchange the lake background for the spectacular valley and east side mountain range views. Throw in a historic working horse and cattle farm, complete with a stone building, barn, farm house and new reception space barn, this place is a gem of venue.

Angie and Jeffrey’s wedding was on a day that brought thunder, a lot of rain, and then a spectacular sunset once the skies cleared. 

*Tip for couple’s who have rain forecast for their wedding day: Get clear umbrellas for the couple, officiant, and wedding party. This couple had completely clear ones, and a few with small flowers printed on the clear plastic and they worked great for being able to see and photograph the couple and their wedding party.

The rain came and went during the ceremony itself, and then luckily cleared up for the portrait sessions after the ceremony.

With a large wedding party like this with 7 bridesmaids, 7 groomsmen, 8 flower girls, and 2 ring bearers, I always try to find a location to layer everyone for the portraits. For this wedding party, the historic farmhouse with its outdoor staircase worked perfectly for these photos.

Congrats Angie and Jeffrey, you and your family and friends embraced the day and the weather challenges with ease, and I am sure it will be one of the most memorable days for all who were there to be a part of your special day.

Oh, and last but not least, the Gansberg Ranch is family run, and the whole family is there to help with the set up and break down of the reception space, and they also serve the cocktails at the adorable grain silo turned Waterloo Hole bar!

By Monique

Happy ten year wedding anniversary to Deb and Sean! Their DIY Rustic Italian themed wedding was held at the Galena Creek Fish Hatchery, located in the forest along the Mt. Rose Highway at the Galena Creek Park.

It was the perfect event space for their theme which complimented the historic stone building. Deb and Sean made all of their decor, and Sean hand made the wooden boxes with words of love and peace painted on them.

Deb and Sean met on a trail up in the Reno foothills, and I am pretty sure their first meeting, each of them walking their dogs, was a classic example of love at first sight!

Since their wedding, Deb’s mom has passed, so I included several images of her here. Deb says the photos with her mom from that day are among her most treasured images.

Cheers to you both, Deb and Sean, and here’s to many more!

By Monique and Scott

Monique, yes, I finally have a bride with my namesake, and Jonathan were married at one of our favorite Sierra wedding venues – The HideOut near Kirkwood mountain.

Their wedding combined two cultures – Jewish and Lebanese. In today’s world wide climate, each family lovingly came together and shared in some of the wedding traditions from each culture. For families traveling from as far away as Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the HideOut was a perfect get away for everyone to enjoy the weekend with games, swimming in the lake, and ample accommodations, including camping and glamping in the HideOut’s designated camping area.

A few of the most important things to Monique and Jonathan for us to capture, me as the photographer, and Scott as the videographer, were them paddling the canoe on the lake in their wedding attire, and the different cultural dances, including both the Hora and some fun, high energy Lebanese chanting and dancing.

They didn’t really want much, if any, getting ready candids, but we got to the venue early, and they were running a little bit late, so we captured just a bit of that for each of them, along with their friends swimming and paddling in the lake.

Monique had a sweet first look with both her dad and brother, before her first look with Jonathan in the field. The HideOut has so many amazing backdrops for photos, as I have already mentioned the lake with the canoe, there are also a lot of gorgeous granite hilltops and several areas of wild flowers during the early summer months.

Vendor team:

catering: Hog Wild BBQ

DJ: Golden Bell Music

Florist: Kathy’s wedding flowers

Cake: Ingrid Fraser’s cakes

Kat and Tyler had a gorgeous early spring wedding in Wine Country. We had done one of her best friend’s weddings at Palisades several years ago, and were recommended to Kat and Tyler by them …. we always love when our couples refer us to their friends and family. This wedding has the gorgeous backdrop of a vineyard with the fresh spring leaves on the grape vines behind the ceremony site along with the rolling hills of wine country surrounding them. Dinner was held in a secluded courtyard, and dancing was indoors.

By Monique and Scott

We have been photographing weddings together as a team for the past 18 years! Why hire us as a team?

Whether you are looking for a team of still photographers, or photography plus video, we work together with a low profile footprint to document your wedding day with our years of expert experience not only as photographers, but also as a wife and husband who know how each other works through out the day. Our styles compliment each other, and as a photographer and videographer, it is easy for you to hire one business for both, cutting down on adding different vendors.

Here is the video and some of our favorite images from a wedding we did together at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, where we have been on their list of trusted vendors for years!

Danielle and Sean were married at Edgewood Tahoe Resort on one of the windiest days of the year! Luckily their ceremony was short and sweet and we were able to do all of the family portraits around the corner where the clubhouse shielded everyone from the wind. Scott and I were there as our photo plus video team to document their small wedding held on one of the last days before Edgewood closed the clubhouse for a major remodel ( reopening in Spring 2025). Danielle, a dancer, and Sean did a choreographed dance to one of the Star Trek theme songs. Both are Star Trek fans, and since Scott is also a big fan, he came home from this wedding, bought the music, and proceeded to learn the song  on the piano so that he could record it to include in their wedding videos! (Song copyrights would have prohibited him from using the song for more than 5-10 seconds in the highlight reel.)

It was great working with Angelina, a planner with Pomegranate Occasions.

Congrats to Danielle and Sean!

By Monique

As wedding photographers in the Lake Tahoe region, we have done so many weddings at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, we can not even begin to count them. We are on the preferred vendor list here, and we know this venue inside and out, so we decided to give you a short guide to a few of the event spaces at this private lake front venue located in South Lake Tahoe. Today we will give you some information about the North Room venue space, along with some of our favorite images from a recent wedding we did there as a team.

Let’s start with the getting ready location: The Lodge, located on the same property as the wedding spaces. Their spacious suites are the perfect place for the wedding parties to get ready. When we work together as team, I hang out with the bride and her wedding party, and Scott hangs out with the groom and his wedding party capturing all of the fun, candid parts of the getting ready process. The rooms are lovely and spacious, with natural tones and an upscale mountain vibe with their decor. The bride and groom get a one-night complimentary stay in a Tahoe King Mountain View room the night of their wedding.

The ceremony location for North Room weddings is steps away from the reception space on a perfectly manicured grassy area right next to the beach with Lake Tahoe and Mt. Tallac as the backdrop for the ceremony.

And finally we come to the North Room reception space itself with 2500 square feet of event space that can accommodate 150 guests. What we love about the North Room the most, as far as the aesthetic for photographs, are the floor to ceiling triangular shaped windows that look out over the lake. The room itself has one of those indoor outdoor space feelings, and there are doors on three sides of the room that let guests outside on to the wraparound granite patio spaces. This wedding we are showing you here also had a few different lounge spaces set up on different areas of the patio. Their cocktail hour was also on the outdoor patio with a second bar set up outside ( the regular bar is located inside the reception room.)

The North Room also has access to a very long sandy beach that most couple’s enjoy taking a stroll on during sunset, and of course we are there to capture it!

Another thing we love about the North Room is that the dance floor is in the middle of the room, so during the first dance, the couple is literally surrounded by everyone. This floor plan is inviting and central to the dance party that can continue until midnight.

For more information and current pricing, follow the below link to Edgewood’s current wedding brochure that includes some base pricing, and then scroll down some more to see what a wedding in the North Room looks like! Links to the vendor team for this wedding are located at the end of this post.

Edgewood Tahoe Resort wedding brochure

Vendor team:

(Instagram accounts)

DJ and ceremony music: @_abeautifulsound_dj_livemusic
venue: @edgewoodtahoe
planners: @epic_thyme
video: @jasonchesebroughfilms

photography, US!: @tahoeweddingphotography

cake: @flourgirlweddingcakes
stationary: @katewisemancreative
flowers: @love_and_lupines
rentals: @creativecoverings @memorableeventsrentals @mountainvibesrentals @sierralighting
hair and makeup: @rahhairstudiotahoe
transportation: @renotahoelimo
photo booth: @snapbarphotobooth_

By Monique and Scott

Meredith and Alex had a wedding weekend to remember … two ceremonies, skiing in their wedding attire and a high energy reception at Palisades Tahoe High Camp. It started on Saturday with Scott photographing their intimate, official ceremony at the Corpus Christi Church in Tahoe City. After the ceremony and a quick change of suit by Alex, we all met up at Palisades for some slushy afternoon turns.

Scott has been wanting to photograph a couple willing ( and able!) to ride one of the many snow snakes that pop up all over the mountain in spring, and that was the day his wish came true! They had a group of their family and friends join them for the skiing and a few apre drinks at the Chammy. Check out the skiing photos at the end of this post!

The next day Scott and I started along the west shore of Lake Tahoe with each of their groups getting ready in lake front condos. For this part of their wedding weekend, Scott was the videographer, and I was the photographer. Click on the above link to see Scott’s highlight reel.

After their first look on the pier and a few wedding party photos, it was time to head back to Palisades to take the tram up for the late afternoon ceremony at High Camp.

Issac Freed got the party started and the dancing never stopped! He was accompanied on some songs with a live saxophone player, and we thought that was a nice touch and brought some unique live music to the mix!

Venue: Palisades Tahoe weddings

wedding planner: Jenell Williams, owner Wildflower Event Company

DJ and live music: Isaac Freed, owner of Music in Tahoe

by Monique

We recently photographed a back country ski elopement for our friends Anjeanette and Scott in the Mt. Rose wilderness high up above Lake Tahoe.

There are two Scott’s in this story, lol, so I will refer to my husband and photographer Scott as Sady, and the groom as Scott! Sady worked with Anjeanette at the Reno Gazette Journal back in the early to mid 2000’s, where Anjeanette was an investigative journalist. In her final years at the RGJ, she did a great podcast on the ever growing city of Reno, you can give it a listen here: Wondery: The City Season 2. She now works at ProPublica.

Anjeanette and Scott met about 11 years ago and have shared many outdoor adventures together. They share a love of back country skiing, so when they decided to elope up in the mountains and ski in their wedding clothing, it was a natural fit for us to be their skiing photographers.

Anjeanette’s son Ethan was their officiant, and Anjeanette’s friend Mary, and Scott’s brother Paul were also a part of the ceremony and they each read a poem.

While I was the photographer for the day, Sady did a short video of the ceremony itself, scroll to the end of this post to see it, with just a bit of the celebratory dance they all did to John Denver’s Dancing with the Mountains. Sady also flew a drone over the ceremony to capture the sweeping views of the snowy mountains and Lake Tahoe in the background.

After the ceremony, the dancing, and a few portraits, we all skied back down to the cars where we shared an apre ski toast and some snacks. We ended the day with a sunset session at Lake Tahoe, where Anjeanette and Scott scrambled up on top of some huge boulders. Not only did her red dress look A-Mazing for the snowy photos, but it was also so pretty against the deep blue of Lake Tahoe!

Congrats to you both, and we can’t wait to share more skiing adventures with you!

by Scott and Monique

With all this new snow that has arrived, we decided to post about this awesome wedding we did together at Palisades Tahoe last spring. We all know how epic the winter was last year, and now, with this new storm, spring and early summer weddings at Palisades will have a similar backdrop to this one!

This was another one of our weddings we did as a team, with Scott doing the video, and Monique doing the still photography. Carmelina and Chris are also both skiers and their love of Tahoe brought them to High Camp for their wedding day. A few of our favorite images of the day were from their couple’s sunset portrait session, and a few of the fun details – Chris’s Darth Vader cufflinks resting on his back country skiing “skins” as they are called, and the image of their wedding invitations also includes a set of real stamps from the Winter Olympic Games that were held there in 1960!