Wedding Photography · Brainerd Lakes, MN 
Maggie & Craig — Red Freight Doors and a Sunset Silhouette
A late-summer wedding at Northern Pacific Center in Brainerd — white-brick getting-ready suites, a veil-in-the-wind kiss at the arched red freight doors, and a silhouette against a wild sunset to close the night.
Northern Pacific Center — A Wedding Venue Guide
The historic Northern Pacific Railroad repair shops in downtown Brainerd — the Le Lier getting-ready suite, the arched red freight doors, and a train-shed ceremony hall with the original track running down the aisle.
Taylor & Charles — An Autumn Afternoon Beneath the Pines
An autumn day at Pine Peaks Event Center near Pine River — a tearful first look in the evergreens, vows beneath towering northern pines, golden-hour portraits in a harvested field, and a string-lit reception in the woods.
Pine Peaks Event Center — A Wedding Venue Guide
An 80-acre private estate near Pine River and Crosslake — ceremonies under towering northern pines, a Retreat House on the grounds, and open harvested fields for golden hour.
Madden's on Gull Lake — A Wedding Venue Guide
The spaces, the light, the timeline, and what to know about getting married on this thousand-acre Brainerd Lakes peninsula.
Olivia & Adam — The Flower Walk, the Dock, and the Last Light on Gull Lake
An August evening at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa: the chapel path, golden hour at the Italian Gardens, a dip kiss on the flower walk below the main lodge, and dusk silhouettes on the Gull Lake dock. Next summer they get married a few miles down the shore at Madden's.
Josse & Alex — Married in Sweden, Married Again in Crosslake
They were already married. Midsummer, in Josse's Swedish hometown. So this August Saturday in Crosslake was the one where the rest of the family got to be there, and where a fika table built by half the guest list turned a north woods lodge into something a little bit Swedish.
Whitefish Lodge — A Wedding Venue Guide
The north-woods lodge on the Whitefish Chain in Crosslake — a wooded back lawn for ceremonies, a banquet room with two stone fireplaces under a vaulted ceiling, and 54 cabin rooms so everyone stays put for the weekend.
Isabella & Ryan — Two Donkeys, Five Hundred Balloons, and America's 250th
A nuptial Mass at St. Francis in Brainerd with Fr. Mike Schmitz, a wedding party made entirely of brothers and sisters, flower-crowned donkeys at cocktail hour, five hundred balloons overhead — and a red, white, and blue dance floor the night before the country's 250th birthday.
Lauren & Noah — A Grand View Lodge Engagement
Grand View Lodge runs across two lakes. We started on the quiet Roy Lake side — a hidden boardwalk through the tall grass — then headed to the historic main lodge for the famous staircase and a Gull Lake beach at sunset. Mostly, though, it was Lauren's laugh.
Grand View Lodge — A Wedding Venue Guide
The historic 1930s resort on Gull Lake near Nisswa — the famous garden staircase, ~900 acres of pine and lakeshore across two lakes, and what to know about photographing a wedding there.
Reeden & Jacklyn — A Wisconsin Point Engagement
A June evening on Wisconsin Point in Superior — the lighthouse breakwater, a driftwood beach, and a boardwalk through the dunes, with two people who could not stop making each other laugh. Next summer they get married at their family cabin near Emily.
Abby & Anthony — A Carver Park Engagement
A golden-hour engagement session at Carver Park Reserve in Victoria — the tall-grass meadow and the Lake Auburn dock where Anthony proposed, capped with cribbage and cocktails to celebrate.
Laura & Brock — Greysolon Ballroom
A Catholic ceremony at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, summer portraits along the Lake Superior shoreline, and a first dance under the historic chandeliers of the Greysolon Ballroom in downtown Duluth.
Greysolon Ballroom by Black Woods — A Wedding Venue Guide
The historic 1925 Hotel Duluth ballroom in downtown Duluth — what to know about photographing a wedding under its chandeliers and hand-painted ceiling.
Emily & Matthew — Madden's on Gull Lake
A quiet mid-May day at Madden's — monogrammed jackets, a birch-lined first look, a timber-beamed ceremony, and a silhouette on the Gull Lake shore as night fell.
Haley & Daniel — Cragun's Resort
A spring wedding at Cragun's Resort — a harpist by the windows, a first look at the end of the dock, and a first-dance laugh that gave the whole day away.
Cragun's Resort — A Wedding Venue Guide
The Gull Lake resort with the wood-beamed ceremony room, the long dock for portraits, and the pine-lined drives — what to know about photographing a wedding here.
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