{"id":9176,"date":"2016-09-30T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2016-09-30T00:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T07:18:32","slug":"seattle-elopement-photography-at-parsons-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/seattle-elopement-photography-at-parsons-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Elopement Photography at Parsons Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lois and Logan elope at Parsons Garden<\/h1>\n

Back in early August I received an email from Lois. \u00a0She had been looking for a photographer for her planned elopement, and after looking through my online portfolio and seeing all my reviews thought that I was the person she wanted to record this special day. \u00a0I was delighted to be able to help her. \u00a0She and her fiance Logan wanted to get married in Seattle, but she really didn’t know what a good location would be for the ceremony. \u00a0We talked about the date they\u00a0wanted for the wedding, and the kind of backdrop they wanted both for the ceremony and for their photos. \u00a0Because they planned to get married on a weekday we had a lot of good choices, and after talking through the options she and Logan decided they wanted to have the ceremony at Parsons Garden, located on Queen Ann Hill. \u00a0This has been one of my favorite locations for small weddings and engagement photo sessions since I first discovered it years ago. \u00a0Not only is it a beautiful little “pocket park”, it is right across the street from a great outlook over Magnolia, with a fantastic view of Puget sound and the Olympic Mountain range. \u00a0And to make it even better, just a few hundred yards down the street is Kerry Park, with probably the best (and most photographed) view of Seattle Center, the Space Needle and on a good day of Mt. Rainier as well.<\/p>\n

We met at Parsons Garden about a half hour before the planned start of the ceremony so we could get some photos beforehand. \u00a0It was an almost too perfect summer day, with a near cloudless sky but a very manageable temperature. \u00a0I always cringe on hot days as I watch the poor groom in a tuxedo slowly melting! \u00a0But that was not a concern today.<\/p>\n

We were soon met by Joanna Marie of Forever, Together<\/a>, who was going to officiate the ceremony. \u00a0I have worked with Joanna and her husband David Cooper at numerous weddings over the years, and had just worked a wedding with David two days before at Echo Falls. \u00a0This was to be a VERY small ceremony, so small I was needed to be one of the witnesses to the wedding.<\/p>\n

Once we talked over the procedure the ceremony got underway. \u00a0We had the park all to ourselves, a great advantage of having the wedding on a Monday afternoon! \u00a0Joanna did her usual marvelous job, and we soon had a newlywed couple. \u00a0After dealing with the legalities of paperwork, Lois and Logan and I spent the next hour or so walking the nearby portion of Queen Ann Hill looking for nice spots for photos. \u00a0You will see some of the results below, though we took far more photos then I am sharing here.<\/p>\n

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