Here’s a wedding I had been looking forward to for a long time. Because I love the couple and because I love to go to Idaho and because I love to photograph weddings. Ashley and Alden are living in Hawaii right now, but came to Rexburg (her hometown) to get married.
You never know what the weather will do in Idaho, in June, (anytime, really) and on the day of the wedding, the weather was purrrrrrfect. A few days before that, cold and rainy. On the wedding day: glorious. A sign of good things to come, if you ask me.
It’s been a couple years since I photographed a wedding in Rexburg Idaho, my home town. It’s always good to go back. Thanks Ryley and Chelse.
Ryley and Chelse, in love, and photographed in Rexburg Idaho.
Thanks, Foam, for lining this up.
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Justin Hackworth photographs happy people in love and wants to photograph you. Getting married? We do that, too.
If you drive an hour north of Sun Valley in the central mountains of Idaho, you’ll pass Dooley Creek and climb Galena pass, then level off at 7,000 feet about five miles before you get to Stanley. Now, turn off Highway 75 and head west to Red Fish Lake. If you ask the local folks at the lodge about the weather they’ll tell you it can snow up there any day of the year.
So when you leave your cabin at 5:55am on September 1st for a sunrise wedding, that’s when you notice you’ll be shooting in a blizzard.
But that’s not where the story begins. The story starts when Jason and Jenna are in high school. Back when Jason and his buddy thought it would be funny to sneak into Jenna’s house and put on her clothes while she was sleeping. Imagine how that looked when Jenna’s mother came in. That’s the first time she had ever met Jason. Oh, sure, they laugh about it now…
A few years later, he was living in San Fransisco and she was living in Boise. Their folks both say it was the Lord that got them back together. The engagement was speedy, and on September 1st, 2008, in the Central Mountains of Idaho, Jenna and Jason got married in a snow storm. It was, on all accounts, beautiful.
You can see a three minute slide show of their wedding here.
