RAJAH STUDIO » THE WEDDING JOURNAL

It wasn’t until their wedding day that I met Talia and Brett. They had come a long way from New York City to be married in Brett’s hometown of Lewiston, Idaho. I was impressed to find they were able to put together the entire wedding from two thousand miles away, with a little help from Brett’s family of course.

Talia and Brett are two people who are always giving back to others. So it was a perfect end to the night when their closest friends and family revealed a handmade quilt they had made for them in secret with personal jokes and messages sewn into the squares. One had been designed by Talia’s grandmother who had passed away recently.
It was embroidered with this message: “May the love you have for each other keep you as warm as this quilt will keep you”.

First, you should know that for their wedding night, Gus built Laura a tipi. Yes, the original dwelling of our Native ancestors. He spent months planning it and visiting the site where they were to be wed outside of Twisp, Washington to get it prepared. Laura admitted she was skeptical, but after a night under the stars she was sold.
If there are two better people in this world, I have yet to meet them. Laura and Gus are two of the most genuinely kind souls, so much so that I’m sure they’re sick of hearing it in the countless toasts and roasts by their friends and family.

Paul knew he liked Ann a while ago – back when he asked her to Homecoming in high school. Fast forward through more than a decade of school and new families and world travels, and life has brought them back together. Paul spent months building a pop-up book that chronicled their journey and how they found their way back to one another. He proposed to Ann with a ring at the end of the book. They celebrated their wedding with a ring ceremony in Ann’s parents’ backyard. The next day they had a party with with their close family and friends at a park on the Columbia River.