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Intimate Holland Wedding Michigan | Lauren + Caleb

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This day was the epitome of laid back.

Everyone getting ready together, the bride storing her dress in a yellow shopping bag, limited decor/worry.

Lauren and Caleb snuck away after their intimate ceremony to JW’s in Grand Haven for Rangoons + Beverages and time together, we then joined their family and friends for a catered Mexican dinner (amazzzinngg) and hung out around the fire with margaritas. I really truly feel like part of this family/friend group and am so thankful to finally share their images! I just loved everything about this day. Check out a few of my favorites!

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Thank you for viewing this Intimate Holland Michigan Wedding! Rachel Kaye Photography is a Chicago / West Michigan based wedding and portrait photographer who loves a great destination wedding. Rachel Kaye specializes in off-beat natural light wedding photography. Rachel Kaye Photography provides the best wedding photography services for the coolest kind of couples. Those who want to tell their love story in a natural, documentary style with amazing service. Rachel Kaye Photography tells unique stories through gorgeous natural looking photographs and fun, quirky, animated GIF’s.

For more information on how to tell your wedding day story or engagement/love story please contact Rachel Kaye

Love and Light, Rachel Kaye

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Peter Pan and the Lost Boys | Halloween Photoshoot Michigan

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Every Halloween my favorite family dresses up in the most amazing home-made costumes and we do photos. This year Rivers was Peter Pan and his parents were the lost boys. I created a little story to go along with our shoot! HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Story starts Here:

Peter Pan and his Lost Boys were going to go on an adventure!!! Like every day in the life of the lost boys and Pan there was much fun to be had.

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While cruising the Island they ran into their biggest nemesis!!! CAPTAIN HOOK AND SMEE!

Pan volunteered to fight them off!

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The face of a winner! Pan defeated Captain hook and celebrated with his Lost Boys!mcclain_halloween_2016_039mcclain_halloween_2016_046mcclain_halloween_2016_047

Now it was time to take Captain hooks ship! OH MY IS IT BIG!

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How do I even steer this thing?

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Yes! The Lost Boys came to help Peter learn how to steer the ship!

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Is this thing on?

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I FINALLY GOT IT! Peter Pan started steering the ship back to their play area!! A BIG SHIP!

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the lost boys were able to just relax and watch Peter do his work! You can always rely on Peter Pan!

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Now they can have all the fun they want on their own BIG ship without Captain Hook to scare them!!!!

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Great job Peter Pan!!!

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This seriously brings me so much joy to share this session with you all and my little weird story I made up! My family farm happens to have the most epic Pirate Ship play area that I was so excited to use for this session. Thanks so much to the McClains for always inspiring me in the busiest season! LOVE YOU THREE SO MUCH!! Happy Halloween!

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Muskegon Engagement Photographer Michigan | Hannah + Darin

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I fall in serious love with all of my couples. It’s not a secret. Generally every blog starts with ‘OMG THESE TWO I JUST LOVE THEM THEY ARE THE BEST EVER OMG’ or some sort of general excitement I have over a love story.

But these two…seriously.

I first met Hannah and Darin at Heather + Randy’s wedding a few years ago. They were dancing near the tent together and I happened to snap a bunch of frames of them and created my first ever animated GIF at a wedding. Well needless to say that I was hooked on creating animated GIFs and when these two love birds got engaged I was so freaking pumped that they asked me to shoot their wedding I about died.

We met up at a park in Norton Shores (it hadn’t rained all day…) and then it immediately started raining. We found some solace in the trees and then just embraced the magic of rain and adorable love. THEN we headed to the place where they met and worked together, Leppinks in Ferrysburg MI where I got to get really artsy and knock a place off my photography bucket list (love in freezer section!! YES!).

I can’t wait to watch these two get married next July and see some old friends at their shindig and make some new ones. You two are awesome.

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Thank you for viewing this Muskegon Engagement Photographer Michigan gallery! Rachel Kaye Photography is a Chicago / West Michigan based wedding and portrait photographer who loves a great destination wedding. Rachel Kaye specializes in off-beat natural light wedding photography. Rachel Kaye Photography provides the best wedding photography services for the coolest kind of couples. Those who want to tell their love story in a natural, documentary style with amazing service. Rachel Kaye Photography tells unique stories through gorgeous natural looking photographs and fun, quirky, animated GIF’s.

For more information on how to tell your wedding day story or engagement/love story please contact Rachel Kaye

Love and Light, Rachel Kaye

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Intimate Michigan Backyard Wedding | Debra + Robert

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It is my most down to the core belief that, you don’t need ANYTHING to get married but your backyard and your family (and technically some legal documents… if you’re into that).

Deb and Bob did just that.

And it was perfection.

They invited me into their home, with their closest family and friends to celebrate coming together as TWO FAMILIES. It was intimate and magical and everything I want to photograph <3.

RAIN all day was the forecast…so Debra and Bob set up tents and prepared for the worst! Somehow, they made it all the way through the ceremony without any rain, but just as they were going to do their recessional, IT STARTED POURING!!! But then, the sun came out! So we were still able to do portraits in their gorgeous yard in Norton Shores, MI.

I am so thankful Deb came up to me at Lauren and Adams wedding to ask me if I did small ceremonies. YES DEB, yes I do. These are my favorite, they are how I started shooting weddings and they are WHY I shoot weddings. The love in a small group of people like this can be physically FELT by an outsider like myself when entering the situation. It is really an amazing feeling. By the end of this day, I felt like family and didn’t even want to leave all the amazing kiddos I met.

 

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Thank you for viewing this Intimate Michigan Backyard Wedding gallery! Rachel Kaye Photography is a Chicago / West Michigan based wedding and portrait photographer who loves a great destination wedding. Rachel Kaye specializes in off-beat natural light wedding photography. Rachel Kaye Photography provides the best wedding photography services for the coolest kind of couples. Those who want to tell their love story in a natural, documentary style with amazing service. Rachel Kaye Photography tells unique stories through gorgeous natural looking photographs and fun, quirky, animated GIF’s.

For more information on how to tell your wedding day story or engagement/love story please contact Rachel Kaye

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Spring Lake Michigan Wedding Photographer | Josh + Jake

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Josh and Jake’s wedding day holds a special place in my heart. They first contacted me, finding my advertisement (I don’t advertise haha) in a program for the local theatre company I volunteer with, Central Park Players. I knew from this fact alone that they were the client for me! They support local theatre and knew right away I was a safe person for them to contact for their wedding photography (I hope to someday not say that I was “a safe place” but sadly, this is the world we live in for many LGBT couples!). I also recommended quite a few other wonderful LGBT-friendly vendors I know (like my favourite, Jeffery Schildroth DJ).

Talking to them I knew their wedding was exactly my style. Very intimate, relaxed and a short wedding day! I specialize in small, intimate weddings where the main part of the wedding is GETTING MARRIED and spending time with family and friends. This is my jam! We hit it off right away and I had an amazing time at their engagement session.

They love penguins, they love theatre. Basically, we are best friends.

Their wedding day was nothing but amazing, all of their friends and family came together and surrounded them for a most lovely celebration at the Holiday Inn in Spring Lake, MI. I am so glad they found me through one of my volunteer projects, and so so glad I could capture this special day for them.

Love you both!

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Thank you for viewing this Spring Lake LGBT-Friendly Wedding Photographer gallery! Rachel Kaye Photography is a Chicago / West Michigan based wedding and portrait photographer who loves a great destination wedding. Rachel Kaye specializes in off-beat natural light wedding photography. Rachel Kaye Photography provides the best wedding photography services for the coolest kind of couples. Those who want to tell their love story in a natural, documentary style with amazing service. Rachel Kaye Photography tells unique stories through gorgeous natural looking photographs and fun, quirky, animated GIF’s.

For more information on how to tell your wedding day story or engagement/love story please contact Rachel Kaye

Love and Light, Rachel Kaye

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5th Anniversary Photography Michigan | Brennigan + Adam

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Brennigan and Adam stopped by to celebrate their FIFTH anniversary with a few photos and a cute balloon. I have been lucky enough to know them for quite awhile now (my first photo friends!) and am enjoying getting to know them. Their relationship is something to look up too!

Brennigan runs an amazing photography business and Adam helps out as a second shooter. I LOVE YOU BOTH AND CONGRATS ON FIVE YEARS!!!

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