Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 1
The beautiful antique marble fixtures in the bathroom off the bride's getting-ready room are prominently featured at the start of this wedding gallery. Follow the bride down the spiral staircase to meet her groom in the knot garden for pre-ceremony portraits there and in the adjacent cutting garden. The summer sun shined brightly through the trees, casting dappled shade on the brickwalk for their wedding ceremony. Afterwards, guests congregated at the front of Wagner House for an all-guests photo, then we headed back to the brickwalk, quatrefoil pool and teahouse for portraits. A large tent alongside the veranda's wisteria terrace sheltered all the reception tables, leaving the purple-lit interior open for dancing.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 2
Weddings are hard enough to plan when you're getting married in your hometown. This bride and groom, both employed by the United States Air Force, had to plan theirs from Alaska and Korea! Fortunately, they were blessed with a mild and dry day at Lakewold Gardens, with the flowers in the boxwood parterre beds (the geometrically shaped hedges alongside the brickwalk) in full bloom. After the ceremony on the brickwalk, we meandered to the quatrefoil pool, the shade garden, and around the front of Wagner House to the knot garden. While most weddings use the large living room for the dance floor, these two picked the more intimate sunroom, with its polished tile floor and glass walls and ceiling.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 3
This bride and groom wanted to take care of all their portraits together and with their wedding party before arriving at Lakewold Gardens so that they could spend more time socializing with their wedding guests. We love our portrait sessions at Lakewold, but we don't need to pose anyone to get amazing photos at Lakewold! This wedding features the largest guest count of the weddings on this website, with reception tables spilling out from the wisteria-terraced veranda onto the lawn beside the parterre beds. Lakewold Gardens is excellently suited to comfortably accommodate very large outdoor weddings.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 4
It's hard to be elegant and fun-loving at the same time, but this wedding's bride and groom pulled it off with class! Faced with a tight schedule that had us shooting bride and groom portraits as the guests were arriving, we never left the veranda side of Wagner House and still captured a great deal of variety in these beautiful photos — all out of sight of their guests. The mild summer evening air was too enjoyable to leave for the indoors, and guests socialized on the veranda even as night fell on the wedding reception.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 5
Few brides are brave enough to take the trails down the hill into the woodland garden, but we were impressed with this bride's willingness to go for it! The candid portrait of the bride and groom sitting on a bench, reflected in a still and shady pond, was worth the trek alone. Their ceremony was graced with dappled light from the sun pouring through the treetops. At the reception, we liked how the head table was set up on the edge of the veranda out from under the wisteria terrace, where fading evening light was still bright enough to light the toasts beautifully.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 6
Cloudy days may lack the beauty of a brilliant blue sky, but the soft light they cast on Lakewold's landscape is also so lovely, not to mention so easy for us to work with. This bride and groom's ceremony on the brickwalk benefitted from perfectly even light that enriched the verdant greens everywhere around us. Afterwards, our portraits took us to statuary in the front of Wagner House, and into the clipping garden, where we found a bench surrounded with annuals for the bride and groom to relax on. Later in the evening, multi-colored DJ lights transformed the formal living room into a dance club.
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Lakewold Gardens Weddings Gallery 7
Here in the Seattle-Tacoma area, it can rain any day of the year — even on the most historically trustworthy days. In this July wedding, rain didn't stop our bride and groom from having an outdoor ceremony on the brickwalk. A large tent set up at the widest part of the path provided all the shelter they and their guests needed, and the rain drumming on the tent actually added a nice ambiance to the ceremony. The drizzle stopped soon after the ceremony ended, allowing for portraits of the bride and groom around the gardens. We were rewarded with a rainbow over Gravelly Lake!
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