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Lake Elopement

one husband kneeling in front of the other in front of Mt Rainier during their Mountain Lake Elopement.
Elopement

An LGBTQ+ Mountain Lake Elopement at Mt Rainier (With the Most Stunning View)

ByHenry Tieu June 23, 2025August 28, 2025

I’m so inspired by how Joe & Pat chose to build a life together. See how they brought this spirit to their mountain lake elopement at Mt. Rainier.

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wedding guests sitting around a dining table on a cabin's deck during a Washington micro wedding.
Wedding

A 2-Day Micro Wedding in Washington Focused on Nature, Intimacy, and Family

ByHenry Tieu May 19, 2025August 28, 2025

Intentionality was the theme of Caroline and Anthony’s Washington micro wedding. Read all about how they celebrated their love on their own terms.

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the newlyweds kissing under the bride's veil with a light shining on them during their two day elopement.
Elopement

Multi Day Elopement in the Dolomites (at ALL the best locations)

ByHenry Tieu April 14, 2025August 28, 2025

This was my first time capturing a multi day elopement in the Dolomites. Click to see and learn all about how it went.

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Bride and groom hold hands on a mountain trail during their Italian Dolomites elopement
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Full-Day Italian Dolomites Elopement

ByHenry Tieu November 18, 2024August 28, 2025

Kelly and Mike’s Italian Dolomites elopement was a two-in-one celebration! Visit the blog to see more from their full-day elopement in the mountains and learn the best time to plan an elopement in the Dolomites.

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Man dips woman back for a kiss during their Snoqualmie engagement session
Couples

Intentional Snoqualmie Pass Engagement – with a double proposal & vows

ByHenry Tieu September 16, 2024August 28, 2025

Lexie and Sam’s Snoqualmie Pass engagement was filled with intentionality! Visit the blog to see this couple’s double proposal and vow exchange at Gold Creek Pond.

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Fall, Lake Crescent Elopement
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Fall, Lake Crescent Elopement

Bykiersten April 24, 2023December 11, 2024

Melanie and Chelsie’s Lake Crescent elopement day was filled with fun, laughter, and love. From an emotional first look to ending the day with private vows at blue hour, this Olympic National Park elopement was everything the brides had dreamed of and more!

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Bride and groom dancing and watching the sunset during their hiking elopement in the North Cascades
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Lake Wenatchee Hiking Elopement with Wildflowers | Aimi & Tyler

Bykiersten April 8, 2022May 29, 2024

This Lake Wenatchee hiking elopement was one of the sweetest, most intimate elopements we have ever witnessed. See more from Aimi & Tyler’s North Cascades elopement on the blog!

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Bride and groom walk towards each other during their Lake Cushman elopement in Olympic National Park
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Boho Lake Cushman Elopement | Jo & Austin

ByHenry Tieu April 22, 2020May 24, 2024

Surrounded by closest family members, friends and the most beautiful view of this alpine lake, Jo and Austin’s elopement at Lake Cushman is boho, intimate, and full of emotions

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Moody Gold Creek Pond Engagement Photos | Olive & Krystal
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Moody Gold Creek Pond Engagement Photos | Olive & Krystal

Bykiersten May 15, 2019May 24, 2024

This lesbian engagement session at Gold Creek Pond was so moody and fun! Olive and Krystal gave me their all and trusted me to create amazing art. See more from their moody Gold Creek Pond engagement photos on the blog.

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Gold Creek Pond Elopement | Intimate Mountain Wedding | DT & OT | Seattle LGBT Wedding Photographer
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Gold Creek Pond Elopement | Intimate Mountain Wedding | DT & OT | Seattle LGBT Wedding Photographer

ByHenry Tieu November 22, 2018May 29, 2024

This Gold Creek Pond elopement with DT and OT was the most special day. Visit the blog to see more from this intimate lake elopement in Washington.

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About Henry Tieu Photography: We are a Seattle-based team of destination elopement & intimate wedding photographers who specialize in honest storytelling, candid moments, and soulful portraits in breathtaking landscapes whether that's the mountains of Washington State or the wild beauty of faraway places across the world. Published in The New York Times, named Best Wedding Photography (2019 - 2025) and a Rangefinder Magazine Rising Star, we're honored to capture the kind of love that's deeply felt, artfully preserved and intentionally celebrated. As an Asian and LGBTQ-owned business, we believe your love deserves to be seen, respected, and remembered exactly as it is. Inclusivity, trust, and connection guide everything we do.

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@henrysdiary

The end of each wedding is always the saddest part The end of each wedding is always the saddest part.

It feels like reaching the final pages of a book you deeply love.

You know the pages will end so you read it slowly. Each word tend to fall further apart and the spaces between those words become the mixed feelings of wanting to hug goodbye just one last time but knowing we all have to part ways

This year, as a team, we said hello and goodbye to 67 couples 5 countries and 4 States. 

I am speaking for Nick and Sergio when I say that with every hello and every goodbye, it tugs at our hearts. We forever hope these photos become something you can hold onto…as evidence of our existence…as mementos of beautiful memories…as stories you’ll return to again and again, especially when all our hair turns gray.

Out of all the incredible photographers in the world, you chose us!
That trust has allowed us turn a passion into a career, build lives with our own families, and continue finding joy in this world.

Whether you’re family, a client, a friend, my team, part of our team, a peer, or a stranger on the internet who somehow found this page, thank you for giving us a life far greater than we could have ever imagined.

Thanks for the making 2025 the best one yet!
2026 couples and families, we are so ready for you

All digitals edited with @hdpresets
This life was once a wish. Now it’s our everyday This life was once a wish.
Now it’s our everyday

It’s only our second Christmas together but every Christmas with them feels like a chance to rewrite the story of this lifetime and to refocus on what truly matters

May we move a little slower,
May we stay a present a little longer.
May we never rush past the ordinary moments that are, in truth, everything.

From our family to yours, wishing you a holiday season filled with warmth, gentleness, and the kind of love that feels like home.

———
Digital and film 🎞️
I’m humbled to share that one of my images won the I’m humbled to share that one of my images won the 2025 Best of The Best Wedding Photos by @junebugweddings

This is the 6th year I’ve won this prestigious award and yet, the feeling hasn’t changed.
Still the same mixture of disbelief, gratitude, and vulnerability…because sharing art has always meant showing the parts of me that aren’t certain

I didn’t think I’d need photography as much as I do.

After all these years of documenting people’s stories, I’ve learned that whether in this life or in photography, it’s all about finding and appreciating the coexistence of light and shadow

Without shadow, we don’t quite appreciate the existence of light
Without light, there is nothing to immortalize

Sometimes, light already exists, we just have to be aware enough to invite it in
Sometimes, we have to find our own light even when darkness descends upon us….

If I can find light in photography, I know I can find it again and again in this lifetime. 
Because art, like light, only exists when we allow ourselves to be seen

Thank you L and F for trusting in me enough to share the light on this day with me, for walking through the forest in their white dresses, for embracing the cold wind to see how beautiful Mt. Baker is during blue hour

Thank you to Junebug Weddings and all the incredible judges @memorybox_photo, @belleartphotography,  @gpresets 
I know choosing the top 50 out of thousands of images from photographers all over the world isn’t an easy job. I am honored to be one among these amazing artists.

Photos on film and digital
Digital photos captured on @sonyalpha and edited with @hdpresets

Photography: @henrysdiary
Florals: @tangledrootsfloral
HMUA: @mstimssmakeupartist
Venye: @mtbakerhyggehus
The elopement world has changed so much since 2020 The elopement world has changed so much since 2020, and part of me grew afraid that all these shifts might change the way I approach storytelling someone’s wedding day

It was once a down low experience where people can break away from traditions, feel the courage inside their hearts to go after what they truly feel strongly about, let go of all the societal pressure, and arrive at the level of honesty they feel in their bones.

Their truth,
Their love,
Their story,
….all stripped down to its most honest shape

And slowly, somehow, it felt more and more like a glorified photoshoot.

I stopped sharing work at a certain locations because it didn’t feel right to have a couple waiting in line…in nature…for photos. 

Then I found a page in my journal “Just because you understand a piece of  thing doesn’t mean you understand the entirety of it”

And it hit me.
Just because I am an elopement photographer doesn’t mean I know everything about elopements. 
People have the choice to elope however way they want. 
The only thing I can fully control is how I show up, how I approach elopements, and how I honor their story, their intention, their. day.

For P and C, knowing their family couldn’t be there, although they desperately wanted them to, I wanted to focus on the experience and photos they could take home and show their parents

…to show how beautiful Tofino was on a cold September day, where the fog wrapped around the cliffs but never fully hid the sun
…to show how they ran on the shoreline, tasted the silty mist on their tongues, and laughed like they were the only two people in the world
…to show how quiet the forest became as they walked together…almost like the world softened a bit just enough to make space for them.
…to show how they held onto each other, not for a photo, but just because the moment moved them.

Because someday, when their parents flip through these photos, I hope they don’t just see what Tofino looked like.
I hope they feel what their children felt…and that is more than I could ever hope for being a wedding photographer

Thank you P and C for trusting me with your day

Film and digitals
Photography @henrysdiary on @sonyalpha / @hdpresets
I’m not going to lie. This year, I struggled creat I’m not going to lie. This year, I struggled creatively more than ever before 

I love creativity
I love observing people and sprinkle their joy into each photograph
I love being conceptual, playing  with light, pushing the limits of what people think wedding photography should be 

But somewhere along the way, I think I scrolled a little too much.
Social media tends to do that. 

It’s where I found my community, my people…Many of whom I’ve never met (yet)...we all live in different time zones…yet somehow, we all speak the same language of joy, art, small business grit, and that is how we lift each other up

But social media is also where the world feels like it’s constantly screaming at you
And for me, as a wedding photographer, I felt like I needed to do more…more flash, more editorial, more high end, more, more and more

8 years into photographing weddings yet somehow, the comparison game doesn’t seem to end now does it?

And then I received an email from M and A: “We love the moody photos and the lantern photos…The more artistic the better”

The night before their wedding, I sat alone in my hotel room going over all the emails we had and all the notes I prepared

The one thing I never prepare in advance is what photos I’ll take 

The thing about creativity in weddings is that you can’t pre-plan everything
You have to create space 
You have to leave room for moments to breathe

In that moment, I felt this jolt of energy, almost like a permission to be free, to create, to fail, to go in without really knowing exactly what will happen next, and most importantly, to experience it all. 

I think that’s the true joy of photography
And if we zoom out even further…it’s the true joy of weddings and elopements, too

So I brought the lanterns
They brought their glow-in-the-dark hair and tattoos
And the Oregon coast brought some unexpected sunshine on a late October day.

Thank you M and A for this freedom to create and congratulations again on your beautiful marriage

Digitals on @sonyalpha and edited with @hdpresets 
Films developed and scanned by @gelatinlabs
Grateful for this season of life where parenthood Grateful for this season of life where parenthood teaches us that the greatest gift we can offer someone is that feeling of safety and the permission to feel at home in their own skin, to know their worth, to know that simply being who they are is enough.

Grateful for my husband and his love language. Grateful for how he cares for all of us, whether we’re at home or a random hotel halfway across the world where I am documenting other people’s love stories. And even though traveling with twin babies isn’t always easy, we still get to be together…as a family. And that’s everything I ever need.

Grateful for our family and friends for being the anchor we can lean on.

Grateful for all of you, whether you are our clients or simply internet friends who happen to follow along the adventure that is our life, you help us achieve and live this quiet, ordinary-yet-extraordinary dream

Grateful for this chapter, this day, this moment, this life!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. 🍂🧡🍁

———

Photographed on @sonyalpha a7iv, 28-70mm GM
Edited with @hdpresets in @lightroom

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