{"id":7142,"date":"2016-02-01T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2018-02-17T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:43:18","slug":"seattle-courthouse-wedding-julia-and-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/seattle-courthouse-wedding-julia-and-matt\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Courthouse Wedding – Julia and Matt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Municipal Courthouse Wedding<\/h1>\n

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with Julia and Matt as their wedding photographer. \u00a0I always like to ask the couples that I work with how they met; it is fascinating how this has changed over the last 20+ years. \u00a0Julia is a fairly recent transplant to the Seattle area, while Matt is a long-time resident. \u00a0And as an ever growing percentage of people are doing, they met online (I believe through Match.com). \u00a0Of course, 20 years ago there were no online dating services so the odds that Matt and Julia would have otherwise met is quite small. \u00a0My own research with “my” wedding couples\u00a0is that roughly 1\/3 of them first\u00a0met online. \u00a0 With most\u00a0of the couples both people already lived in Seattle when they connected online, but almost half the time\u00a0they lived in widely different parts of the country, further increasing the odds that they would never have met without the Internet.<\/p>\n

Julia and Matt had decided to do a small wedding at the Seattle Courthouse, with just a small number of family and friends in attendance. \u00a0The Courthouse\u00a0holds weddings every weekday after 4:30PM, and most of the times I have been there to photograph a wedding there are multiple couples waiting for an appointment with a judge to perform their ceremony. \u00a0I have been the photographer at several dozen weddings at both the Seattle Courthouse and the King County Courthouse, which is located just down the street. \u00a0\u00a0The size of these weddings varies from just the bride and groom to groups of up to ~30; larger groups just won;t fit into the available spaces. \u00a0At two of the weddings I photographed at the Seattle Courthouse I was recruited to be one of the witnesses to the ceremony!<\/p>\n

We planned to meet at the Seattle Library\u00a0at 3PM, to give us time to get some photos before the 4:30 check-in time at the Courthouse. \u00a0The weather was not exactly cooperative for outdoor photos, so we started at\u00a0the outer part of the Library in some covered areas and then moved indoors and took photos at a variety of places inside the library. \u00a0If you have never visited the Seattle Library, it is a very cool building with unique architecture that allowed us to take some very fun and cool photos. \u00a0Unfortunately I had not known that professional photography is “frowned upon” inside the Library unless a fee is paid, but we still managed to get a good selection of photos before we had to leave.<\/p>\n

At the Courthouse we were met by Julia and Matt’s families, and after waiting a bit for a judge to be available Matt and Julia were married in a very nice room with a great view over\u00a0the south part of downtown Seattle. \u00a0After getting some family shots the entire group took off for Ray’s Boathouse for a celebratory dinner.<\/p>\n

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