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Michael and Olga: Wedding

Oleksandr — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:14:58 +0000

Congratulations to Mike and Olga! It was my pleasure to photograph Mike and Olga’s wedding. You can find their album from portrait session here: Mike and Olga Album. Their wedding day was long but we were trying to have fun with them and create amazing images! Check it out! Please, leave your comments below.

Marina and Slavic Wedding Album

Oleksandr — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:52:05 +0000

As I promised, here is the album design of Marina and Slavic Wedding. It has a few extra pages I have designed for them, which didn’t end up in the final version, they have been edited out, but I wanted to show you all wonderful spreads I designed for them and have a complete story. If you get this by email, you may not see the embedded slide show, please, visit the blog to view it. Start it by clicking ‘Play’ button on the right corner. To see it full screen, click on ‘Full Screen’ button in the right corner.

Enjoy! Let me know what do you think by leaving your comments below. Thank you!

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Slavic + Marina: Wedding

Oleksandr — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:47:35 +0000

Congratulations to Slavic and Marina! They got married in Sulamita Church last weekend in Portland. Check out a few images from their wedding day! The rest will be available later at http://clients.theoleksandr.com. Thank you for letting me create beautiful pictures on your wedding day. Let me know how do you like them.

Have a great honeymoon!

PS. Check out their wedding album: Marina and Slavic Wedding Album.

The credit for this picture goes to Marina Magalyuk, my past bride who had an idea of this photo.

Emily + Aaron: Wedding

Oleksandr — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:18:48 +0000

Lately, I had a chance to help my friend photographer TJ Cameron to photograph a wedding of Emily and Aaron. He also invited two more photographers Ray Hendricks and Jason Groupp to help him film some video footage. The wedding took place in St. Mary’s Cathedral and reception in The Nines Hotel in downtown Portland.

Here is the crew:

TJ Cameron:

Jason Groupp:

Ray Hendricks filming some video:

Just look at the art work in St. Mary’s Cathedral:

I was watching the priest and combined this picture to include the statue of Jesus on the background. I clicked the shutter at the moment when priest was holding his hands together.

First dance:

Dancing with the father:

Guest Sign In Book Sample

Oleksandr — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:27:56 +0000

I got a new sample of press printed Guest Sign In Book. It features a metallic photo cover, 8.5×11 horizontal format, matte page finish. When I design such book, I put one or two images from your engagement photo session on one side and leave the other one blank. Your guests can write you their messages during reception. You get to keep the book and imagine how great it would be to open it on your first anniversary and reread what your friends wrote you. Have a nice day!

Ellen + Taras: Wedding

Oleksandr — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:37:19 +0000

I have shot another beautiful wedding. Ellen and Taras tied the knot at David Hill Winery near Forest Groove, Oregon. Congratulations, guys! It was a really great party and we had a lot of fun! Check out some of my favorite images and my comments below.

The view at David Hill Vineyard and Winery:

I took Taras around the vineyard to shoot some portraits:

The lighting in the getting ready room couldn’t have been better for portraits:

We setup their first look meeting right at the field:

Then we went to have some portraits taken:

Ellen and Taras met when they were biking, in Vancouver, BC, when Ellen was visiting there.

Some fun on a bike:

Jessica + Jake = Wedding

Oleksandr — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:58:13 +0000

I have special feelings about this wedding. First of all, Jessica and Jake are our parishioners from St. Irene Byzantine Catholic Church in Portland and I am really glad, that I was able to be a part of their wedding day, document it and get amazing shots. Second, they decided to have their ceremony performed according to traditional catholic orthodox wedding. This is the same ceremony what we have in Ukraine and what I am my wife had when we were getting married. And there was a reason for that. Jessica’s father has Ukrainian roots and tries to keep Ukrainian traditions and even say a few words in Ukrainian.I have to say that the ceremony itself is very old, long and has many parts. The wedding starts on the back of the church where priest (father) does some reading blesses the rings and put them on bride and groom’s fingers. They don’t exchange the rings, the father puts them on. Then they walk down to the altar for the rest of the ceremony.One of the parts is when father, covers bride and groom’s hands and basically declares them husband and wife.Then they are are getting crowned as king and queen and father walks them three times around the altar.The special part is when father blesses the bride and does some readings for her.After the wedding ceremony is over there is a traditional Divine Liturgy with communion at the end. The whole ceremony took almost two hours.Congratulations to Jessica and Jake!PS. All wedding images are available at http://clients.theoleksandr.com. Access code to the gallery is the groom’s last name. Early Bird discount is active for one month.

The rings:

The dress:

Some dress details:

Gorgeous bride:

The groom:

The happy couple:

Some typical Ukrainian patterns, red and black:

Beginning of the ceremony. Father puts the rings on:

Then everybody moves to the altar

I like how they look at each other:

Tied together for ever:

The very important part of the ceremony – the crowning:

And walking around the altar:

Ukrainian wedding bread – Caraway:

The first dance:

Father and daughter dancing:

Shelly + Todd = Wedding

Oleksandr — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:31:34 +0000

On last Friday I photographed a wedding of two incredible people Shelly and Todd. They got married in The View Point Inn in Columbia Gorge. We were very lucky to get great sunny and warm weather that day after the entire week of cold and rain. Flowers and decorations were provided by Carolyn S. Kilfoil from Canova Design. She also decorated a wedding cake.

Shelly and Todd looked very happy and so much in love with each other. Todd is a super nice guy, very funny and easy going. He was so happy to see Shelly after his long trip to Europe. They very smiling and laughing all day.

The View Point Inn provides incredible view on Columbia Gorge and we were able to catch beautiful sunset that day. Congratulation, guys, on your wedding. It was my pleasure to photograph you that day!

Check out a slide show of 113 images (about 3 min):

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Here are some of my favorite images of that day. If you see horizontal images cut off, just maximize your browser to increase the viewing area.

I like how Shelly looks in profile:

Beautiful bride:

Handsome groom:

Great couple:

Beautiful flowers provided by Carolyn:

and a cake decorated by her too:

A dragonfly has a special meaning to Shelly’s family and it was an important element of the cake decoration:

We had a beautiful sunset that night:

I like how happy they are during their first dance: