Vail Wedding Proposal - Vail Observation Deck - Joaquin and Alyssa

When I'm organizing wedding proposals, I'm usually doing the work by myself.  When Joaquin decided to propose to Alyssa, he had the concierge team at The Arrabelle lend a hand to put the details together.  They brought champagne and a sound system to the top of the mountain to play Alyssa's favorite song.  It made such a huge difference having their wonderful team there to help out!  

Everything went off without a glitch and I was able to not only capture the proposal, but a few engagement shots afterwards.  Here are a few of my favorites.

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Vail Mountain Top Wedding Proposal - Doug and Kara

Shooting wedding proposals takes a lot of planning and living in a resort makes the planning even more important.  Sometimes the person proposing has never been to the location where they would like to pop the question.  The majority of my work is for guests coming in from out of town that I haven't met in person, so it's my job to make sure that the location works, the conditions are suitable, the person proposing has clear directions on where to go and we always need to figure out a way to recognize each other.  These are the thing that I have control over.

What I don't have control over is other people and how they might interact with the situation.  Doug had chosen to propose to Kara at the top of Vail Mountain, beside the observation deck.  I had spoken to ski patrol to have them lower their safety ropes for five minutes so that there wouldn't be bright orange flags blowing in the background of the photos.  My camera was ready and Doug had sent me a text to say they were on their way.  

It was St. Patrick's Day and as some of you may know, alcohol hits you a little harder at altitude.  What I hadn't planned on was an inebriated guest who had perched himself down on the deck and was heckling tourists.  Doug had walked Kara out to the deck to take a look at the view and my 'helper' started giving them pointers on where they should stand for the best views and the best light and just generally getting in the way.  In the mean time, I was doing a delicate dance behind him, trying to get Doug off the deck and into place without Kara noticing.

Thankfully Doug managed to politely manuever both himself and Kara off the deck and into place for a gorgeous proposal with unobstructed views of The Mount of the Holy Cross.  There's always room to learn and now I know to keep an eye out for hecklers and helpers!

Vail Observation Deck

Heading out to the designated spot along the ridge line

Vail Mountain marriage proposal with The Mount of the Holy Cross in the background.

Vail Mountain marriage proposal with The Mount of the Holy Cross in the background.

Vail Mountain wedding proposal with Game Creek Bowl in the background.

Vail Mountain marriage proposal

Vail Mountain marriage proposal

Vail Mountain wedding proposal

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Vail Wedding Proposal - Vail Mountain Observation Deck

I hope everybody had a 'lovely' Valentine's Day last weekend. In honor of those that are lucky in love, I'm going to catch up on posting photos from some recent wedding proposals and engagement sessions. I'll start off with this very special wedding proposal on top of Vail Mountain. After a few unexpected and nail biting delays, these lovebirds made it to the top of the mountain with about 1 minute of light left in the day. Thankfully she said yes and everything worked out perfectly!  

Although we only had short amount of time left with the light, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  We captured some great photos in the gondola on our way back to Lionshead, including the last one in this series.  This is one of my favorite pics and I think I'm going to need to put it on the slideshow on the website :)

They arrived and were taking selfies on the Observation Deck.  I was pretending to be a tourist, taking in the views.

She said yes!

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