Love on a Winter’s Night | Rosehill Wedding Mukilteo
Winter is the perfect time for weddings, and this Rosehill Wedding in Mukilteo is no exception.
Kelsey and Dustin married at the beginning of December at Rosehill Community Center in Mukilteo. Their day was a whirlwind of friends and inside jokes (anyone have 8 minutes??), a hop or two down to the nearby brewery (also the location of their first date), mini pies, tacos, and dancing among the twinkle lights. This Rosehill wedding was more about the celebration of togetherness than having a wedding, and it was absolutely perfect for this pair. I’ve never met a less stressed out bride (or groom, for that matter!)
We’re so thankful to Jeremy of BlueBeatz Entertainment for sending this wedding our way (Kelsey is his fiance’s step-sister)! We had a ton of fun!
Now of course, we all want to hear the details of this Rosehill wedding, so from Kelsey herself:
We met through work. I worked for a catering company that leased a kitchen in his building. He stopped in each morning for coffee. We got to know each other, and over several months he began drinking more and more coffee. He finally asked me out and the rest is history.
Dustin made plans to go to Diamond Knot, where we shared our first date. We normally don’t plan to go there, so I thought something may be off. After dinner, we were walking to the car and he popped the question! There were a lot of tears, happy, happy tears!
Our venue is nearby the location of our first date, it has amazing views of the water, ferry and Whidbey Island.
Dustin and I made our guest book (Pallet Sign), and we are having wedding pies, which will be made by my mom, his mom, his aunt and sister (apple, chocolate pecan, berry and pumpkin).
I’m pretty relaxed about the whole thing, at the end of the day I get to marry my best friend while we are surrounded by all the people who love and support us.
In the summer we love to camp, enjoy hiking or fishing (he fishes, I hang out on the boat). We also love to explore on day trips, which usually ends up at a craft brewery somewhere.
Eggplant Purple, Mossy green and ivory/champagne
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Kate Gansneder has been photographing weddings since 1997 and has documented over 640 of them across Seattle and Snohomish County. That is not a number for its own sake. It means she has been in the room for enough first dances, enough ceremony tears, enough getting-ready chaos and family dynamics and moments that almost did not happen - that she reads a wedding day the way most people read a room they have been in a thousand times. Automatically. Without thinking about it. Already knowing what comes next. That depth of experience shows up in ways couples do not always expect. She notices you need water before you know you need it. She clocks who in the getting-ready room is spiraling and who is holding it together for everyone else, and she adjusts without announcing it. She handles the thing that almost went wrong before it becomes visible. She walks in and the energy shifts - calmer, warmer, more settled - and most couples cannot tell you exactly why, only that it happened. Couples who were convinced they were camera shy come home with photos of themselves laughing so hard they bent backwards. Couples with complicated family dynamics come home with portraits where everyone looks genuinely happy. Couples who were dreading the formal photo portion of their day come home saying it was actually fun. This is not luck. It is 640 weddings of learning exactly what people need in front of a camera and delivering it before they have to ask. Her 20+ years of experience as a wedding coordinator also helps. The reviews say it better than any bio could. Couples describe Kate as someone who made them feel calm when everything felt overwhelming. Who knew what they needed before they did. Who felt like a trusted friend rather than a vendor they hired. Who shielded them from problems until there was a solution. Who gave them unreasonable hospitality on a day when they deserved exactly that. She is a passionate advocate for Color Integrity editing - your photos should look like your actual wedding day, not a trend that peaks and ages. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, Style Me Pretty, and PNW Weddings. GSquared Weddings has 380+ five-star reviews and 11x WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards. She runs on caramel mochas, arrives 30 minutes early to everything, and will absolutely compliment you during portraits without realizing she is doing it until you giggle. Fair warning.
