Last summer, we arrived to the garden wedding of Rachel and Scott. Nestled in a quiet neighborhood is Shooting Star Garden Events venue. As you enter the property, you are greeted by gorgeous flower gardens, colors and smells everywhere and a little oasis of quiet and tranquility away from the hustle and bustle just a few roads away.
Rachel and her closest friends were gathered in the getting ready house preparing to start their day, and Scott and his groomsmen spent most of their morning outside hanging out in lawn chairs and planning their perfect ceremony entrance – Star Wars themed, of course.
From the Imperial March entrance by the guys, to their specially themed cuff-links, to the decor elements that memorialized their loved ones past (including Scott’s parents), to their Rice Krispie cake and special family readings, Scott and Rachel’s garden wedding was filled with incredibly personal moments, lots of laughter and some tears. They had a lot of DIY touches from decor all the way down to dessert, and the weather was perfect for their garden wedding. And of course, you can’t forget the Sparkler exit! Oh! And the 1000 paper cranes they handmade for their wedding.
We all know you want to hear the details and no one tells the story better than the bride. In Rachel’s words:
Scott’s mom passed away December 16th 2014. Scott and I meet in January of 2016. He proposed to me December 17 2016. He took me to the nutcracker for a very romantic evening and he planned this specific day because it was a new beginning to look forward to after the anniversary of his mother passing away.
We met because of work. I manage a Hallmark store and he is the manger of U.S Bank and hallmark does their deposits there.
It is a beautiful garden wedding setting outside by Cedar river. The house on the property also has the feeling of Anne of Green Gables one of my favorite stories.
Having Scott see me for the first time walking down the aisle and our kiss.
Out adventuring with Scott or at home reading a good book.
Awesome Vendor Team for this Summer Garden Wedding
Kate of GSquared WeddingsWedding Photographer & Certified Wedding Coordinator
Wedding photographer, certified wedding coordinator, and the Type A half of GSquared Weddings. Kate has been behind a camera since 1997 and has documented 640+ weddings across Seattle and Snohomish County since 2011. With a background in marketing, business management, and wedding coordination, she brings more to your day than just great photos — she brings 15+ years of knowing what's about to go sideways and quietly fixing it before you notice. Kate is a passionate advocate for Color Integrity editing because your skin tone and wedding colors should look like they actually looked. Featured in HuffPost, Style Me Pretty, PNW Weddings, and Print Media Centr. 11x WeddingWire Couples' Choice Award winner. Runs on coffee and an unreasonable number of browser tabs.
Wedding photographer, certified wedding coordinator, and the Type A half of GSquared Weddings. Kate has been behind a camera since 1997 and has documented 640+ weddings across Seattle and Snohomish County since 2011. With a background in marketing, business management, and wedding coordination, she brings more to your day than just great photos — she brings 15+ years of knowing what's about to go sideways and quietly fixing it before you notice. Kate is a passionate advocate for Color Integrity editing because your skin tone and wedding colors should look like they actually looked. Featured in HuffPost, Style Me Pretty, PNW Weddings, and Print Media Centr. 11x WeddingWire Couples' Choice Award winner. Runs on coffee and an unreasonable number of browser tabs.
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How long have you been a Snohomish Wedding Photographer?
Kate has been photographing since 1997 and Josh started in 2011. We started photographing weddings together then.
Josh and Kate of GSquared Weddings have photographed over 643 weddings together across more than 15 years — specifically in the Seattle and Snohomish County area. That’s not a flex for its own sake. It means that when your timeline runs 20 minutes late, when the clouds roll in over your outdoor ceremony, or when your reception venue is lit exclusively by Edison bulbs and bad overhead lighting, we’ve been there. Hundreds of times. And we know exactly what to do.
As a husband and wife team, we also bring something no two-photographer strangers can replicate — we communicate without words, we read a room together, and we move through your day as a unit. A Snohomish wedding photographer with genuine field experience doesn’t just take better photos — they protect your entire day experience. That’s what 643+ weddings actually buys you.
How do I know GSquared Weddings is the right Snohomish wedding photography team for us?
Honestly? You’ll know pretty fast. If you read through our work and our words and thought these people get it — trust that instinct.
We’re built for couples who want their day to feel like themselves, not a performance. Couples who want a team that genuinely shows up — not just with cameras, but as timeline wranglers, veil fixers, chaos calm-ers, and two people who will absolutely tear up at your first look. We’ve spent 15 years and 643+ weddings earning the trust of couples across Seattle and Snohomish County, and our approach has never changed: protect your vision, protect your experience, and keep your messy, beautiful, real love story safe.
If you’re looking for heavily staged, ultra-polished, everybody-stand-still photography — we’re probably not your people, and we’ll tell you that honestly. But if you want someone to be there for all of it, exactly as it happens? That’s exactly what we do.
What is your photography style, and will my Snohomish wedding photos look natural or overly edited?
At GSquared Weddings, our photography style is rooted in one core belief: real is always better than perfect. We shoot in a documentary-editorial style — meaning we’re capturing what’s actually happening, not directing a magazine spread. Candid tears, windblown hair, belly laughs mid-vow, the flower girl losing it in the corner — that’s what we’re after.
Our editing is clean, timeless, and true to life. We don’t chase trendy presets or heavy filters that will feel dated in five years. What you see in our galleries is what actually happened that day — the light, the color, the emotion — preserved honestly. Your Snohomish wedding photos will look like you, not like a template.
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So full of love and laughter, these photos are absolutely charming! Love how you tell a story. Truly a cinematic feel in each photo,
Oh I love these! Shooting Star Gardens looks like the perfect place for a wedding (and I LOVE that dress shot there on the building)!!