Once there we met up with Magga Gauja the adventure celebrant and hiked with her for an hour uphill to this beautiful lookout spot, overlooking a magnificent canyon, that we had scouted out 3 years earlier. We were there in the summer evening and had the whole hike all to ourselves. Not a soul in sight. The ceremony was heartfelt and beautiful there was no wind so the only sounds came from chirping birds and buzzing bees…
Pink Iceland went all out in the planning, offered them the down town Pink Tower to get ready in and even got them a helicopter ride up to the volcano. So on a bright and sunny summer day Alissa and Steve put on their fancy clothes and got ready to see an active volcano for the first time and getting married at the same time. On the airport we met up with Tryggvi, their celebrant, and took off to see the fiery beast in Reykjanes.
Why would two apparently sane lovers shove all the people they care the most about in this world (and a cellist) into two trucks with giant tires and then charge with them through one river after the other? It’s simple really, for the adventure. Creating a once in a lifetime experience for your loved ones and yourself to remember for the rest of your days…
On March 19th 2021 a volcanic eruption started at Fagradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, only a stones throw away from the capital, Reykjavík. It was a relatively small eruption by Icelandic standards. Iceland is very volcanically active and sports many volcanos of different shapes and sizes. Some large enough to cause real catastrophic events like covering everything in ash or stopping air traffic in the northern hemisphere for weeks but this one was what Icelanders have dubbed a “tourist eruption”; a small, accessible, lava flowing eruption. Usually when a volcano goes off you want to get as far away from it as possible but in the case of a tourist eruption the opposite actually happens…
We were awarded the prestigious Rangefinder Rising Stars of Wedding Photography 2020 award. This came at the exactly right time for us, when we needed a pick me up the most. Making us more determent than ever to keep at this, not giving up and keep documenting stories of love up here in the cold north.
The Rangefinder Rising Stars award is one of the most prestigious awards in our business and something we’ve only dared to dream about since we started our career as wedding photographers. Every year the New York based photography magazine Rangefinder picks 30 photographers from around the globe that “show promise in taking the aesthetics of wedding photography to new places. Visionaries today, they are the educators and mentors of the future.”
