Summer in Iceland is our favourite season, for a short time each year this cold rock in the north Atlantic is transformed into a green oasis. An island filled with all kinds of birds singing not just the lonely croak of the ravens, you can hear the wind rustling through the leaves of trees instead of…
One of the the many aspects of our job that we really like is that we get to meet people from pretty much every corner of the world. When we were growing up Iceland used to be a pretty monotonous place and everybody looked and behaved pretty much the same. And although times are changing…
Beau and Erica came all the way to Iceland after years of marriage and a few kids, from Ohio to renew their vows under a waterfall in gale force winds. Iceland in the fall has some of the prettiest weather but also some of the craziest so there is no way of knowing what you are going to get.
We learned a long time ago that there is no use in getting annoyed by the weather you just have to embrace what ever the weather gods throw your way and work with it. And that brings us back to Belinda and Terry. They embraced all the weather they got on their wedding day and they got it all. From gale force winds and rain up in the mountains to pockets of calm down by the ocean.
Some weddings start at the edge of the world and of all the weddings we've shot none have been closer to that edge than this one. It took place in Árneshreppur in the Strandir region on the Westfjords of Iceland. A magical place you have to visit in person to truly understand. It's raw, mysterious, infinitely beautiful and remote, very remote. There is a small population that lives there year round, huddled together during the winter months blocked off from the rest of the country when the mountain passes fill up with snow. When summer comes for it's short visit the place is transformed into a paradise and paradise sounds like a good spot for a wedding.
These two beautiful human beings with their perfect hair just got married a few days ago in the mountains in West Virginia. But in the beginning of this year we had the honor of driving them to the airport in Iceland.
This wedding represents everything we love about our job. Traveling to distant, off the beaten track places, meeting genuine, awesome people and being accepted by a group of total strangers as one of their own and last but not least absolutely breathtaking skies.