A sure fire way to make your day unique
Want a sure fire way to make your day unique? Hire Neil Hubbard to play the bag pipes for your wedding! He’s truly amazing in his customary attire. Your guests will be amazed! He’s a great guy. I’ve worked with him numerous occasions. While at the Seattle Wedding Show I stopped by his booth to say hello. He’s very friendly, professional and passionate about his art. He plays at Newcastle regularly during sunset. Check with him to find out which months he’s there. What a fun date night that would be to have dinner and a drink in the bar or restaurant at Newcastle on the outdoor terrace, listen to Neil’s music and watch the sunset over Seattle in the distance. If you’ve never been to Newcastle you are in for a treat! Think modern day sprawling castle with a view of Seattle as the cherry on top! There are often deer who frequent the golf course that time of day too! We took our kids there once for a fun outing (we were on the terrace not the bar). It’s great fun. After your glorious date night call Neil and hire him for your wedding. You’ll be glad you did! Newcastle Golf Club
http://www.neilbagpiper.com/
8 Things to know about Hildebrand Photography
8 Things to know about Hildebrand Photography
The Seattle Wedding Show last weekend was fabulous! We met hundreds of wonderful couples. We are filling our schedule with meetings at our Redmond studio now.
Our available times to meet are filling up quickly! As soon as you have your date with your venue secure be sure to contact us right away for a meeting.
At the meeting we will give you a welcome packet describing who we are and all the great things we have to offer as well as some items that will help you plan your day. You will see our big wall prints and all of our wedding albums. We can hear all about your wedding plans and even create a custom package based on your individual needs.
8 Things to know about Hildebrand Photography:
+ We do not charge for travel. So, if you are having a destination wedding be sure to talk to us!
We have photographed weddings in: Argentina, Canada, Oregon, Arizona, Sonoma, CA, Virginia, San Juans, Tennessee, Hawaii and more!
+ We do offer photography, videography and photo booths.
+ We are a husband and wife team who are both shooters and both have many years of experience capturing incredible wedding images.
+ Our photography style is artistic with the use of textures and layers to create a work of art to display on your walls for generations to come. Some people think our prints are paintings which is a real compliment to us.
+ We capture a mixture of candid shots and posed images from your day.
+ We love wedding albums and include one in each of our collections. After all, they are your first family heirloom that you are creating together!
+ We love engagement sessions and include one in each of our collections. Our couples have lots of fun and we do too. It’s a great time to get use to being photographed and get to know each other better.
+ We have been doing this many years and have a lot of special things to offer to our clients that our clients have greatly appreciated over the years. Come on in and I’ll tell you all about them.
So, almost all of those sentences started with “we”. Come on in to our studio and let’s hear more about “YOU” and your big day! 
See you soon!
Call or text us at 206.399.4987
email: [email protected] or [email protected]
www.hildebrandphoto.com
www.facebook.com/HildebrandPhotography
Check us out at: www.Weddingwire.com and www.theknot.com where we have 5-star ratings from clients and our peers!
Published in: Shutter Magazine, Moon Travel Guide, Seattle Times, Modern Jewish Bride, Bejeweled Magazine and more.
High School Senior Magazine
We are proud to announce our High School Senior Magazine!! We should have a catchy title for our magazine, hmmm…we will have to work on that. If we had a mascot it would have to be the Labradors to represent our dogs, Merry and Blackie, of course.
It’s full of tons of senior photo sessions by Hildebrand Photography. There’s also helpful tips for guys and tips for girls on how to have a great photo session.
Yes, it’s a link you have to click on to view. There are so many photos here that it was too big to put on our blog otherwise and there are more photo sessions still to be added!
There are high school seniors from all over here. There’s Redmond High School, Puyallup High School, Sultan High School to name a few. There are photos taken in studio, in the city, in city parks, on hiking trails and on Lake Washington. Some students bring their friends, dogs, parents, siblings. Some students bring props or have us shoot in places that represent their sports. There are many great ideas here on what to wear, where to go and what to bring.
Enjoy the photos and call us to book your high school senior session today!
Join us at the NW Bridal Showcase this weekend!
Come join us at the NW Bridal Showcase this weekend!
January 9th & 10th, 2016
Saturday 12:00- 6:00 & Sunday 10:00-3:00
The Tulalip Resort Casino
10200 Quilceda Blvd. Tulalip, WA 98270
https://secure.exposites.com/nwbridalshowcase.com/show.html?show.id=4120
Kitsap Memorial State Park
Kitsap Memorial State Park
I was challenged to a photo a day on FB by Tim Arnold. I’m pretty sure he is requesting only landscape photos but all of my photos have people in them. I completely am enamored by landscape photos. In fact, many of our big prints are all about our wedding clients with impressive landscape settings. So, I cheated and posted this sunset photo from a wedding we photographed this summer. This was taken from Kitsap Memorial State Park near Poulsbo, WA. But I also think Tim has a great capacity to cheat at this landscape photo gig because he lives on one of the San Juan Islands known as one of the most beautiful places on Earth!
I would love to take landscape photos of all the breath taking feats of nature we have in the Northwest but I would have to bring my dog and would probably require a Sherpa to carry all of my photography gear so I could get the best shot possible! I’d also have to have a GPS tracker on me so when I get lost and consumed behind the lens and wander off taking photos I’ll be able to be retrieved.
Foss Waterway Seaport Tacoma
Foss Waterway Seaport-Colette and Ravi’s Wedding
This is the beginning layout design for Colette and Ravi’s wedding album. Never mind the yellow triangles, it’s a Fundy editing thing. I really like how the album is turning out so far. I cannot wait to see the printed version, it’s going to be a true story book full of heartfelt memories for them to cherish always!
Below is a description of how Colette and Ravi envisioned their wedding day at at Foss Waterway Seaport in Tacoma as taken from our questionnaire they filled out.
Q. We’d love to know more about your wedding plans, especially what you’re doing to make your wedding special or unique for you.
A. We are going to have a ‘flower parade’ of little kids…any young person who wants to be a part of our procession is welcome to, and kids will come in with streamers and handing out flowers to guests along the aisles. We have a huge wedding party, which we are referring to as our ‘Wedding Tribe’…the whole entrance procession will be huge and festive and probably to funky, dance-inspiring music.
We will be having our ceremony in a circular format. We will have a small platform in the middle of a large circular formation of chairs, with pillows on the ground around the platform for the kids to sit on to have a better view.
We will have a steel band play outside on the promenade during cocktail hour, while the room is flipped for the reception. We will have chalk art, games, and face painting – for kids and adults alike.
For dinner, we will serve burrito bowls. We’ll have an amazing DJ friend of ours fly in from Philly, who specializes in mixing funk/soul 45s. Dessert will be Mexican ‘paletas’ (super delicious popsicles: http://roamconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/paletas.jpg/).
Our wedding will be full of color, laughter, diversity, dancing, and funny, warm people. It will be a sort of reunion for several different social/family groups from around the country/world.
One of our biggest values is community and connection, and we will have several gatherings and activities throughout the week and the event to help bring people together and get to know each other so that the event is one big joyous unified celebration.
They described their wedding perfectly! This is exactly how it turned out.
Thank you to the vendors who made Colette and Ravi’s wedding so perfect!
Coordinator, Caterer, Florist, Event Designer: Gierin Creek Event Services
Gown Boutique:Kitsch Bitsch Alyssa Devanny 0412 069 287 (Australia) [email protected]
DJ: DJ Personify James Norman (706) 248-3788 [email protected]
Dessert: Seattle Pops
Venue: Foss Waterway Seaport
Videographer: Hildebrand Photography
The Islanders Steel Drum Band
contact: Obe Quarless
email: [email protected]
phone: 253-426-5342
Bridal party cigar fun
Lauren and Nick’s wedding. This is Nick with his groomsmen in dashing grey suits on the deck of the Edgewater Hotel.
…not to be outdone by the Lauren’s bridesmaids with cigars.
A major storm had just blown through with heavy winds, rains and if I remember right, lightning. We had just finish the bridal party photos down at the Discovery Park light house when a few drops fell. Everyone was back inside the hotel and safe when the heavy rains hit.
When Lauren exited the van her dad was standing there in perfect timing for her first look with him. Here’s the photo of the two of them. We were so happy to be there to capture this heartfelt moment.
By the time the storm subsided the reception party was going strong and everyone migrated outside to enjoy the fresh air with a cigar…wait, what? Ha, ha, ok they must have been outside to enjoy the cool air while smoking a cigar. Either way, I love getting cool shots of people smoking cigars. Lauren and Nick purchased a print of the guys. It’s going to look great on their wall. What a fun memory to display.
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Trinity Tree Farm Issaquah
This place is amazing! Not only do they sell Christmas trees and Pumpkins but people have incredible weddings there too! It’s gorgeous there. There are acres of trees, a big, red, old fashioned fire truck, a roomy lodge style building with an impressive outdoor fireplace reminiscent of a 5-star resort in the mountains.
We cannot wait to photograph Kristi and Matt’s wedding. They are going to have many, many children in their wedding which will be adorable, many friends as attendants and an intimate number of guests. This will be the perfect wedding. We are all hoping for snow on their big day…fingers crossed! Wouldn’t it be incredible to have hundreds of evergreen trees covered in a light layer of white snow in their photos! Oh my gosh, now I’m hoping they have hot chocolate for everyone there. Wouldn’t it be nice for everyone to be enjoying each others company with a nice warm mug in the lodge and the winter view out the large pane windows that surround the lodge? The woods are my favorite. I know most people love the ocean but the woods is where I like to be.
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The 2016 Seattle Wedding Show is coming up!
The 2016 Seattle Wedding Show is coming up!
Our home away from home for will be…
Where: Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle
Booth #: 1312 (see red circle in map) We are next door to the Salish Lodge booth (go Salish!).
When: January 16th 10:00am-5:30pm and 17th 10:30am-5:00pm
Come meet us, say hello, see our big wall print art and our gorgeous albums! Then, hire us for your wedding and be elated that you did! 
You can pre-purchase tickets here: www.weddingshow.com
Gorgeous, festive Holiday Card
Looks at this gorgeous, gorgeous, festive Holiday Card of Lauren and Wes! We are happy to now offer holiday cards and are thrilled with how they are turning out. They’re incredible and our clients are loving them! Order yours today, choose your favorite layout and call us with your order.
Our Oprah Couch
Hello,
This is me chilling in our comfy, lovely office after a client meeting.
Our office is everything we hoped it would be. When the power went out in our neighborhood we packed up dinner and took it to our office. We were very cozy there with our t.v., heater/fireplace, big sofa (which I just realized is the same look as Oprah’s famous yellow leather chairs) & mini fridge. We are proud to bring clients there where they can see our art in wall prints and albums. There they peruse our samples and pick out their own wall prints and albums after they view their photos on our t.v.
So, come to Redmond and have a sit on our Oprah couch, no worries, we don’t have a studio audience.
Stunning Album Art Box
Stunning Album Art Box
These Art Boxes are incredible! They’re very personalized with your own photo as the cover. They’re a fabulous way to protect your heirloom album plus there’s a special spot inside to hold your DVD of photos so it’s all together in one place.
Everyone who sees our Art Boxes completely LOVES them! This is something everyone should own. It’s a beautiful finishing touch to your wedding photos.
Our new Canon Pro-100 printer
We just bout the Canon Pro-100 printer and are really impressed with it!
No more messing around with ordering through companies that use ROES, no more running to our PO Box to pick up orders. We have control over the color and the paper options are endless! How amazing would it be to have this in our studio. Brandon edits while I shoot. The client chooses their favorites just minutes after their shoot and takes home the final prints right then! No homework for us. Instant gratification for our clients, yay! It’s a win, win! I can’t wait to try out the new workflow!
Oh, and as a bonus, if you zoom in to the white paper above the printer in the photo you’ll see my daughter’s artwork depicting what students should not do in science class at school…in case you need a refresher on the middle school rules. The message of the day here is “don’t scare your friend or they may knock over a beaker”…and of course, “do like us on FB…always!” 
https://www.facebook.com/HildebrandPhotography/?ref=hl
Canon Pro-100 printer