So you want to have a destination wedding. You’ve been scouring Pinterest boards and Instagram hashtags looking for a destination wedding and elopement photographer. Maybe you’ve considered a trendy Icelandic wedding, but the logistics of passports and flights and time zones and language barriers for you, not to mention any guests, are stressing you out. Have you considered eloping to Alaska? If not, here’s why you should!

The family that filets together, stays together. How our family caught a 215 lb halibut in Juneau Alaska

When fireweeds bloom depends on the weather and climate. Summers are unpredictable in southeast and southcentral Alaska, especially with global warming trends; some summers there is hardly any clear warm days, and some summers there are weeks of high temperatures and droughts. On average though, the fireweeds bloom anytime between early July through mid-September