Emily & Micah // A North Shore Elopement
Want to know what’s better than photographing an elopement along the North Shore during autumn? Photographing your childhood best friend and her lovely partner. Approximately seventeen years ago, a warm-hearted sixth-grader sat next to me during our first day of life science at Big Lake Middle School. Our first conversations centered around our shared love for books, especially Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, and Michael Grant’s “Gone” series, with our friendship rapidly blossoming into one of the most formidable and compassionate connections we have. Emily was one of the very first individuals I told I was Queer, and Emily was such an unyielding supporter, Emily left the church she has attended for much of her life secondary to their anti-Queer messages. It truly is a beautiful thing to have a friend who has known you for nearly two decades, let alone someone who is ferocious with ensuring others are validated and heard and is clever (Emily has even wrote a novel when we were in high school).
Emily and Micah’s elopement was a tapestry of colors with the peak leaf change occurring during our time together. The muted reds, carotenoid yellows, and the marmalade orange intertwining with the pine greens were a sight to behold. The primary locations of their elopement were sunset photos at Palisade Head (thank you for braving the rain and adventuring amongst the cliffs, Emily and Micah) and a morning sunrise ceremony at the Black Sand Beach surrounded by their closest friends. If you look closely at a few of the photos, you may catch my handsome husband as the officiant. I love you to the Moon and to Saturn, Emily.
Because we are both avid readers, below is a quote of Emily and I’s from a shared favorite novel:
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” - “Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller
Love,
B
