Our first engagement shoot (YES we had multiple! More on that later..) was out at Rialto Beach on the Olympic Peninsula with Levi Hriczo. Levi has a beautiful talent of being able to capture emotion and feeling into all his images and he is the epitome of a PNW wedding photographer. He is willing and eager to get as adventurous as you’re willing to be in order to capture surreal images that showcase your relationship and love.
When we first reached out to Levi we knew he was the right choice for what we were looking for when he wrote back, “I want couples in windswept embraces on mountain tops, kissing in the rain on a dark day at the coast, golden sunset photos so ethereal it’s unreal. Photographs and feelings that are perfectly imperfect. Whimsical memories. It will take a little work, but what you put into it is what you will receive back. Let’s create something!!” Let’s be real, isn’t that everyone’s dream??
Levi had a ton of location ideas and we ended up going with Rialto Beach. If you’ve ever been out there, you know its stupid gorgeous. On top of that, unlike with a mountain shoot where weather tends to be a bigger factor, on the coast all types of weather days look good in photos. If it’s sunny, you get this amazing golden sunset with a super soft twilight hour by the waves. If it’s cloudy, you get a shadow covered PNW feeling coast with sun-bleached driftwood everywhere.
It’s a 3 hour drive from Seattle, so we decided to make a little getaway out of it and stayed the night in a cute tiny house AirBnB just a few minutes up the road in Forks: “The Rialto” Tiny House. If you are feeling adventurous you could also just pack a tent and camp on the beach!
We loved Levi’s photos and he really did a great job of making us feel comfortable in front of the camera (the Champagne helped too!). We would have loved to use him as our wedding day photographer but our parents surprised us with their strong desire for us to hire someone local in Ohio, and if you’ve ever planned a wedding you probably already know that parent’s desires typically end up being fulfilled!!
