Oh man, where to even begin with this wedding?! First of all, my good friend Jay Eads was actually contracted to shoot this wedding and called me up to be his second shooter. Jay and I are good friends, chat often and I wasn’t booked, so I was glad to work with him and even offered to have him stay with us on his trip up from Eugene, Oregon.
On the way to Seattle that morning, Jay started having some major pains in his stomach and after a few calls and chats with emergency medical personnel, we rushed him to Harborview Medical Center thinking his appendix had burst. He was in a great deal of pain, but still incredibly concerned about his clients. When I dropped him off at the ER and I watched him literally run through the doors in pain, I took a deep breath, said a prayer for him and drove his SUV down to Safeco Field to take photos of Jeff and his guys. No pressure, right? On the bright side, I know Jeff and Alise pretty well and they were totally fine with having me be there to capture their wedding. Jeff is a local photographer as well, so there is already pressure to perform with a little extra bit of awesomeness, but now their primary photographer is in the hospital and his hired second is shooting the entire thing. Good thing this wasn’t my first wedding and it’s a good thing that Jeff and Alise had insisted on 2 photographers in the first place! Jay ended up actually coming back after a few hours after my wife Maddie came and picked him up. Turns out that Jay had a really intense kidney stone and was able to pass it after a few hours. Despite the morphine and obvious pain earlier, Jay was able to make it back just in time for the family portraits before the ceremony. The guy is a trooper!
When I arrived at Safeco Field to meet the guys and then at the Arctic Club Hotel to meet up with the girls, everyone was amazing and totally more concerned with Jay’s well-being than the fact that he couldn’t be there to take the photos. That is just the kind of people Jeff and Alise are. Thanks for having us!
Here are a few of my shots from the day.
My good friends in the band Roman Holiday jammed during cocktail hour. So fun to have them there!
And of course, I had to grab a quick portrait of the guys as well.
Jeff, Alise, and everyone involved, thanks again for be so patient and treating me so well when you found out Jay was probably going to be gone all day.
Jay, thanks for having me shoot with you. So glad you made it out ok, man!
After our session in Tacoma, Lindsay had us drive out to Orting to shoot some photos where I shot the music video for 
Since Jay is awesome and had all of his gear, he set up his lights and took a few pretty epic shots of Lindsay at the end as well.
I decided to jump into a photo too :)
Here are a few “behind the scenes” shots that Jay took as well throughout the shoot.
