Love Wins | Jessica Hill Photography

Engagement

Evan & Aaron
A Tilikum Crossing Engagement

Evan and Aaron are the type of couple that make you smile as soon as you meet them. They perfectly complement each other and I was honored to photograph their engagement session at the gorgeous Tilikum Crossing bridge which is the newest bridge on the Portland skyline. This cable-stayed bridge across the Willamette River is quite striking in its architecture and it was fun to photograph this environmentally conscience couple along the cables and sky of this public-transit only bridge. We finished the session with lovely tea from the Tao of Tea on Belmont, which is one of the couples favorite date spots. I am so looking forward to documenting their wedding this weekend!

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Monica and Sara
A Gorge Crest Vineyard Wedding

Monica and Sara have a great love and threw a huge celebration to honor it! Monica and Sara’s wedding was a joyous party at the most beautiful location at Gorge Crest Vineyard in Washington on the Columbia River. They rented a gorgeous Airbnb in Hood River, Oregon for getting ready photos and then we traveled to the venue for the ceremony and party. With Mount Hood in the distance, family and friends dancing under the stars and a momentous love that moves mountains, this wedding was unforgettable in every way. Monica and Sara are a great couple as they compliment each other and have a way of making everyone around them feel welcome and joyous. They found their gorgeous dresses at Lena Medoyeff in the Pearl and their florals were created by the talented Leah at Indigo Gardens. Their wedding day coordination and rentals from the amazing Debbie at Hitched in the Hood and makeup and hair from Kassandra Sommerville. What an unforgettable wedding!

Hood River Wedding Photographers

Monica and Sara
A Hood River Rehearsal Dinner

Monica and Sara’s rehearsal dinner last summer was a truly enchanted evening at a historic sunken wine cellar in Hood River, Oregon. Complete with great wine and food, brand new babies and mammas to be, friends singing great songs and beautiful love from a beautiful couple. The toasts were abundant with love and praise and poetry and many a tear was shed! This magical space is called The Ruins in downtown Hood River and it’s truly a hidden gem!

Wedding

Desiree and Kate
An Urban Studio Pearl Wedding

Des and Kate’s wedding was full of pure joy, lots of happiness, and dinosaurs! Their wedding took place this past spring at the contemporary Urban Studio with Pearl Catering providing the yummy food! I was smiling all day during this wedding as the brides and their family and friends were so fun and laid-back. I loved their mis-matched farm chairs from Something Borrowed and their vintage rustic vibe. With awesome coordination from Natalia at Bridal Bliss, pretty flowers from Blum, tunes from Dowling Productions and a tarot card reader, this event was one for the books. Love wins always!

Engagement

Monica and Sara
A Sokol Blosser Engagement

Monica and Sara and I met up on a gorgeous autumn day deep in the heart of Oregon wine country at the stunning and modern Sokol Blosser winery, which is where Sara and Monica were engaged! This has to be one of my all time favorite vineyards in Oregon, with the sweeping views, angular clean construction and delicious award winning wine, it’s a memorable experience for sure. Monica and Sara are a great couple that balance and compliment each other perfectly and we had a blast hiking around the area with their pup and and I’m really looking forward to their wedding in the Columbia River Gorge this Summer.

Engagement

Desiree and Kate
An Urban Winery and Arcade Engagement in Portland

Desiree and Kate are the kind of couple you meet and just click with. Hours seem like minutes and my face hurt from smiling so much. I loved their plans for their engagement shoot around Portland, incorporating wine tasting at Enso, a vintage arcade and a walk in the woods with their three labs. It makes me so happy when a couple truly uses their engagement shoot as way to reflect on their shared interests and hobbies. The wine was a little more Des, the arcade a little more Kate, and the woods were truly them. We had a blast and I am so looking forward to their downtown Portland wedding in April!

Wedding

Gloria and Maggie
A Eugene Winery Wedding

On a warm Thursday evening in July, 100 of Gloria and Maggie’s nearest and dearest family and friends gathered at Sweetcheeks Winery beneath a giant oak tree in the gorgeous Willamette wine country near Eugene, Oregon to celebrate love. And Oh how Glo and Maggie’s love was celebrated!!! With lots of laughter, readings from the most recent Supreme Court Ruling for united marriage equality, light up bowties, a bubble machine and so much love… this was one of those weddings that I’ll never forget. I made new friends and I felt like family. Thank you Glo and Maggie, you two are amazing and I was honored to document your truly remarkable wedding.

Elopements

Laurie and Renee
Hip Chicks do Wine Wedding

I’ll be your dream, I’ll be your wish, I’ll be your fantasy, I’ll be your hope, I’ll be your love, Be everything that you need. Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

Getting Ready Location: Couple’s Home

Wedding Ceremony and Reception: Hip Chicks do Wine Urban Winery

Wedding Dress Designer and boutique: David’s Bridal

Suit: Men’s Warehouse-Calvin Klein

Flowers: Gifford’s Florist–Laura Gifford

Catering: Cuisine Bebe Catering

Rings: Kallati Collection

Hair-Rene Vargas/Makeup-Krista Wilson

Cake: Cupcake Jones

Officiant: Daria Eliuk

Coordinator: Darcy Kochis

Wedding

Sneak Peek
Laurie and Renee at Hip Chicks do Wine

I’ll never forget Laurie and Renee’s wedding at Hip Chicks do Wine, their awesome urban winery in SE. It was an honor to document, as my first legal full same-sex wedding in Oregon! Their pure joy filled the room and beyond and their love for each other and their business was nothing short of inspiring. Can’t wait to share more!