By Seattle portrait photographer Cory Parris

Everyone love their children and think theirs are the best. I’m not different! Here are some photographs of my amazing children that we took in November for our holiday cards. Now that everyone has seen the cards, I can put out the images!

Riley sitting on an old loading dock

Alyssa on the train tracks

Kyler against an old brick wall

All three. This is a 30×30 gallery wrapped canvas on our wall.

Little man laughing

Little bit bigger man laughing

Alyssa with bricks

All these are really just the tip of the iceberg. I could easily have put in another 20 images!

Wedding Venue: Blessed Sacrament
Reception Venue: Newcastle Golf Club
Wedding Coordinator: Weddings with Wendy
Flowers: Bella Rugosa]
Bagpiper: Neil Hubbard
Cake: Sharon’s
DJ: Darrell Christel
Photographer: Cory Parris (who did you expect?)

David’s mother wiping her tears.

David’s twin sister during the ceremony.

Neil the bagpiper on his hill.

Kristen’s mom during her husband’s toast.

Sandy and Billy were married on a beautiful day at the Lake Union Yacht Club (formerly the Tyee Yacht Club). You can see the slideshow here!

One of our fabulous photographers, Jeremy Leffel, won King 5’s Best of Western Washington!  Congratulations to Jeremy!

The ISPWP (International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers) is a very cool organization. They only let in the best photographers, require you to have photographed 50 weddings as the primary photographer, and you have to get past the membership committee as they scrutinize your work for quality. I liked the idea of the ISPWP so much that I joined and volunteered to be a member of the membership committee. Then they had a contest and I entered nine images and eight of them placed!

I think the critique of this image is funny. I thought it was cool that you could see the Space Needle on the left and I purposely shot the image so the Space Needle would be visible!

I was very happy to place in this category as I figured it would have the most entries and the most outstanding images.

Seattle Wedding Photographer Cory Parris

I took a quick trip down to Portland to photograph Amanda and Jesse’s amazing wedding at Waverly Country Club. It was a beautiful place and a beautiful wedding! You can see the slideshow here.

Location: Newcastle Golf Club
Photographer: Cory Parris

I had a fantastic time hanging out with Katie, Chris and their families. While I was at it, I decided to take some photographs.

Dad looks pretty happy walking down the aisle!

Cool ceremony location.

I loved this of the kids looking at the view.

Photographer:  Cory Parris
Wedding Location: Mercer Island Presbyterian
Reception Location: The Bellevue Club
Band: The Beatniks
Slideshow: Click here!

Gwynna and Eric are great fun and I had a blast at their wedding.

The getaway truck. The old truck that will never be a classic! It is Eric’s and it shows their personality. Nice wedding and er…nice…truck!

The cake topper was from the wedding of Gwynna’s grandmother.

A bridesmaid and her husband. I really liked this quiet moment amidst the band starting to play and the volume going up.

The Beatniks may be my favorite wedding band of all time.

The speeches were very entertaining. Eric actually told me that he was scared about the best man speech. At his best man’s wedding, Eric told a mortifyingly embarrassing story. So bad that I’m amazed that Eric still has that friend. Therefore, Eric was a little apprehensive about what was going to be said about him. He let him off the hook, though. Here the father of the bride is reacting to a toast that his son, Gwynna’s brother Duke, said. Fun stuff.

Photographer: Cory Parris
Wedding: First Covenant Church
Reception: The Yacht Club at Lake Union (Tyee Yacht Club)
Catering: Ravishing Radish

Click here to see the slideshow as well as order prints!

I always know that the bride is going to be a lot of fun if she chooses colored shoes. Check out these green beauties in front of the stained glass window at First Covenant Church in downtown Seattle.

This wedding bracelet has been involved in something like 37 family wedding since the early 1900’s in Jason’s family. The list is all the names of the brides. Very cool.

The beautiful interior of Seattle Covenant.

Another beautiful view of the church.

There are some incredible moments in life. Does it get any better than riding in the back of a classic convertible on a beautiful day right after you get married?

Post Alley is one of those places photographers love. You can create sunny, bright and colorful images, moody and dark images, or both with a trashy, urban chic flair.

How can you not love bright green shoes with the wedding dress?

I love how the little boy is staring at Lindsey and Jason as they get their photos taken. It’s kind of funny how many other people are looking at them, too!

I liked this portrait of Jason with the stranger out of focus in the background.

Here’s the Mustang. I offered to trade for my Kia, but they weren’t having any of it!

As they come into the the Yacht Club at Lake Union (not to be confused with the Tyee Yacht Club, which is exactly the same place), Jason gets a high-five from his mom.

Lindsey and Jason made things harder on the guests. If you wanted to have them kiss, you had to do more than just hit your glass with a fork. You had to come up and sing a song into the microphone with the word “Love” in the song. So…the groomsmen sang the Barney song (I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family…). Of course, they didn’t know the whole song, so Lindsey was waiting for the rest. The parents in the crowd helped them out and it was a first for me - a group singing of the Barney song at a wedding!

Lindsey’s dad made individual cheesecakes for everyone (I had the chocolate raspberry) and a slightly larger one for Lindsey and Jason to cut. Unfortunately, it needed a little more time to thaw, so they had to chip off pieces to feed to each other.

Lindsey’s dad.

Posted by Laurence Kim.