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Liliya and Vlad Part 1 | Rattlesnake Lake, WA

ByHenry Tieu August 14, 2017May 11, 2024

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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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Chúc Mừng Năm Mới 🧧🐴 Happy Lunar New Year 2026. I

Chúc Mừng Năm Mới 🧧🐴
Happy Lunar New Year 2026.

If your furniture was made in Vietnam, there’s a good chance it was made here, in workshops like these, built by hands that learned from the generations before them, in a small town called Đồng Nai.

This is where my husband is from.
And this year, we get to celebrate Tết here with our son and daughter.

For as long as we possibly can, we want Alpine and Glacier to know this part of themselves.
To feel the magic of Tết.
To understand the quiet pride of craft passed down through generations.
To come home to family.
To sit around a table filled with food made from memory and love.
To listen to the endless stories about the past, about sacrifice, about what the future could hold.

Because being Vietnamese isn’t just where you’re born.
It’s what you carry.
It’s what you choose to return to.
It’s the rituals you protect.

From our family, wishing you a year of intentional living.
An abundance of inner peace and joy.
Good health.
And warm, unhurried rest.

Chúc mừng năm mới ❤️

#tet2026 #lunarnewyear2026

They waited 5 FULL YEARS for these photos. Like s

They waited 5 FULL YEARS for these photos.

Like so many couples during the pandemic, H & O got legally married but never had the elopement experience they once dreamed of.

And we all know life goes…
It pulls. It pushes. It asks us to move on before we’re ready/
Dreams get tucked away for “someday”

But H and O never forgot about that dream...the one where they get to slow down and forget all the noises that is life…the one where they get to have a moment to stay grounded in their journey, their story, their love.

I had the honor of photographing them on the exact date of their 5th anniversary right in the heart of wildflower season at Mount Rainier.

We stayed on trail.
Left no trace.
But took all the memories with us.

At one point, we came across a cluster of flowers shaped like a heart…almost as if it had been waiting for us all along…and if we just slow down enough to look, we’ll find beauty hidden in plain sight…just like life…just like relationships…just like the people around us.

When Sony asked why this was one of my favorite images of 2025, I shared this:

Just before I pressed the shutter, I knew we were running out of light. Instinctively, I wanted to bring H and O closer together. But O (the groom) gently stepped back, wanting H to have a moment alone with the landscape herself.

In that pause, I witnessed his love language unfold: presence, patience, and deep respect.

This photo reminds me not just of the beauty that is surrounding us, but also how love moves.

Thank you H and O for allowing me to be there.

A series of digital and film photos
Digital on @sonyalpha
Film on Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Gold 200

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.

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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

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