A Timberline Lodge Wedding
“The greatest adventures is what lies ahead”
2020 and 2021 has brought many reschedules for my couples for their Timberline Lodge weddings and got me reminiscing about previous Mount Hood weddings like Isobel and Joshua’s a year ago. Happy one year anniversary!
Avid hikers and adventurers, Isobel and Joshua were high school sweethearts that got engaged in Austria outside the oldest public library in the middle of a rose garden. Their love for the outdoors and the mountains were very fitting for their sunrise intimate ceremony at one of my favorite mountain retreats, Timberline Lodge. It was my first time to photograph a wedding at sunrise with a stay overnight at the lodge. Their lovely and sweet ceremony was at 7am right around sunrise in front of their family and friends. It was a memorable to see the shifts in light and to catch first light around the lodge.
Fun facts about Timberline Lodge:
80 years ago, Timberline Lodge was built under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, which provided work for hundreds of Oregonians.
Built in 1937, this lodge is a designated national landmark that attracts over 2 million visitors each year.
The lodge sits on public lands at 5,960 feet within the boundaries of Mount Hood National Forest though the lodge is publicly owned and privately operated.
Gilbert Stanley Underwood was said to be the reported architect and came up with the preliminary design for Timberline Lodge. The same architect as Yosemite Nationa’s Park Ahwahnee Hotel and other lodges in the U.S. national park system.
This unique mountain lodge and resort-like hotel is a four-story structure that is approximately 40,000 square feet.
