vista hills vineyard wedding photography: tawnya and rian

ryan had a thing for the cute, checker girl at his grocery store.  he found himself going in every day to buy something new just so he could see her.  i'm not sure just how many packs of gum it took but... she fell for him, he fell for her.  and this is their wedding.  :)   so sweet.  xoxo

all photos taken at www.vistahillsvineyard.com by sara vandepas

lizzie's sweet senior year

congrats on your senior year, my dear.  the world awaits.  :)

bridal veil lakes wedding: karen and david

bright and lively and happy. karen and david fully enjoyed their gorgous wedding this summer. congrats you two!

all photos taken at the beautiful bridal veil lakes in the gorge by www.saravandepasphotography.com

for the third time ... repeat clients again adorable

these sweet boys are growing fast and their family has documented with three portrait sessions this first year.  

portland oregon twin family portraits by sara vandepas

jen and ivan: engagement session on the beach

one of my bestest friends, jen, tied the knot recently with her love, ivan.  i took these "engagement" style shots at cannon beach, the day before their wedding.  jen wanted to take advantage of the sunset light that we wouldn't have at her high noon wedding.  good idea.  sunset light is...well i can't even express my love.

 ivan can only wish that jen had an afro with bangs.  :)

are you that cool of an oregonian to have recognized haystack rock in the back ground?  get out!

portland wedding photography: my first favorites

Laura and Jason were married at the Abernethy Center in Oregon City a few weeks ago.  They've been in Maui for their honeymoon and here's a sneak peek at their wedding photography.

All photos taken by sara vandepas  at the abernethy center.

wedding sneak peek: tops hats and ruffle cuffs? yes, we welcome you

Heather and Alex were married a few weeks ago at wine country farms near dundee, oregon and here's my favorites from their very stylie affair so far... 

one cool detail was Alex's tattoo wedding band.  check it out!  he rocked the ruffle shirt too!

all photos taken by sara vandepas at www.winecountryfarm.com

wouldn't this face make you spend money?

little ms. precious is my new ad running at nwkids.com

adoption family portraits: albany oregon

jason and stacey are both awesome people who work with kids and are so happy to have adopted their first child: son, braxton. they wanted to document his first year with a portrait session and some of our mutual friends bought this family portrait session for them as a gift (photography makes a great pregnancy or baby shower gift!)  this family was so happy and loving, i really enjoyed frolicking in the sun with them, and their little one has the most scrumptious smile.  welcome, braxton!