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Seattle elopement wedding ceremony on the rooftop of the Seattle courthouse. Tom Ellis Photography, top-rated Seattle courthouse wedding photographer

Sunny Springtime Seattle Courthouse Elopement Wedding

Seattle Courthouse Elopement Wedding, plus Gas Works Park I recently was fortunate to be the photographer at the wedding of Mandy and James.  This was an elopement wedding at the Seattle Courthouse, held on a Thursday afternoon.  Unlike many of the Corthouse weddings that I photograph, both Mandy and James had several family members in […]

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Elaina and Trip kiss in front of a beautiful waterfall during their engagement photography session at the Bellevue Botanical Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle engagement photographer

Sneak Peek Engagement Session at the Botanical Garden

Sneak Peek – Elaina and Trip’s Engagement Photos at the Bellevue Botanical Garden Here is a Sneak Peek photo from my recent engagement photo session with Elaina and Trip, at the Bellevue Botanical Garden.  In the middle of a lot of very strange spring weather we managed to hit a good day, and had a […]

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Romantic photo of engaged couple during their forest engagement photography session. Tom Ellis Photography, premier Seattle area wedding and engagement photographer

Forest Engagement Photo Session with HTTYD Theme

Engagement Photo Session with a How To Train Your Dragon Theme Last fall I received an email from Dorothy.  She and her not-yet fiance Matthew had found me on the Offbeat Bride website, and liked my work.  She was interested in arranging for some “couple’s photos” to be taken the following spring and wanted to […]

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Elopement wedding ceremony on the rooftop balcony of the Seattle Courthouse. Tom Ellis Photography, premier Seattle wedding photographer

Seattle Courthouse Elopement Wedding Sneak Peek

Sneak Peek – Mandy and James Elope at the Seattle Courthouse Here is a Sneak Peek look at the wonderful elopement wedding that I photographed yesterday of Mandy and James at the Seattle Courthouse.  Pretty good story behind the elopement as well as how Mandy and James first met.  But you’re going to have to […]

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Engagement photo session deep in the forest. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle engagement photographer

Sneak Peek Wonderful Forest Engagement Photo Session

Sneak Peek – Forest Engagement Photo Session I recently had a fantastic engagement photo session with Dorothy and Matthew, deep in the forest at McCollum Pioneer Park in Everett.  Dorothy and Matthew are huge fans of the How To Train Your Dragon movies (as am I!), and wanted to duplicate some of the feelings of […]

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Bride and groom kiss on the balcony of the Seattle Courthouse during their elopement wedding. Tom Ellis Photography, top rated Seattle courthouse wedding and elopement photographer

Seattle Courthouse Elopement Wedding-Tom Ellis Photography

Tamara & Joseph Elope at the Seattle Courthouse I was contacted by Tamara back in the beginning of February.  She and her fiance Joseph were planning to do an elopement wedding in the Seattle area, and she wanted to know if I’d be interested in working with them on their wedding photos.  They were considering […]

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Close up photo of engaged couple at Bellevue Botanical Garden. Tom Ellis Photography, Seattle engagement photographer

Spring Engagement Photos at Bellevue Botanical Garden

Spring Engagement Photo Session at the Bellevue Botanical Garden On  beautiful sunny afternoon I took Shayna and Charles to the Bellevue Botanical Garden for an engagement photo session.  This was a rather long trip for the couple, as they live just outside Dallas TX.  But they have decided that they want to get married in […]

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Couple stand on the balcony before their elopement wedding at the Seattle Courthouse. Tom Ellis Photography, top rated Seattle wedding photographer

Sneak Peek Seattle Municipal Courthouse Elopement

Tamara and Joseph’s Elopement Wedding at the Seattle Courthouse A couple of months ago I received an email from Tamara.  She and her fiance Joseph live in Toronto (more on that later), but were planning to have a courthouse elopement wedding in Seattle.  She had located me on Google and wanted to know if I […]

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Tom Ellis Photography Blog Rated in Top 100 Blogs

Tom Ellis Photography Blog in Feedspot Top 100 Wedding Photography Blogs A few days ago I received an email from someone whose name I did not recognize, Anuj Agarwal from Feedspot.com.  The header on the email was what I have written above, “Tom Ellis Photography Blog in Feedspot Top 100 Wedding Photography Blogs”, and contained […]

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Busy dance floor at the 2019 Down Syndrome Community Sweetheart Dance

2019 Down Syndrome Community Sweetheart Dance

Down Syndrome Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dance Last weekend I was the photographer for the 2019 Valentine’s Sweetheart Dance put on by the Down Syndrome Community.  The dance had originally been scheduled to be held two weeks earlier, but the rather crazy amount of snow on the ground at the time necessitated rescheduling the date.  I […]

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