Dramatic Icelandic Wedding by Nordica Photography

Howdy! Did you have a nice long weekend? Considering we're now well and truly into winter I think we were pretty lucky with the weather... it was lovely and mild. Meant we could take Charlie on walks to the beach every day... in fact she got 2-3 walks most days this weekend. Pampered little puppy she is!! 

Today I have another fabulously moody and dramatic Icelandic Wedding from the lovely guys at Nordica Photography (you may remember this one I posted a couple of weeks back). Again the dramatic landscape makes for some incredible images.
Annika and Doug met as students at MIT. A few years later, when Doug was living in London and Annika in Boston, they met for a long weekend in Iceland and fell in love with the country, particularly its natural beauty, scenery and colours. Annika and Doug both love destination weddings and the idea of days of fun spent hanging out with their guests appealed to them. Beyond their love for the country, Iceland was the ideal place for their destination wedding as it was a convenient halfway point for family travelling from North America and Scandinavia. They booked their venue - Hotel Budir - sight unseen, but a trip four months prior to the wedding confirmed that they’d made the perfect choice. They loved the rustic, yet chic feel of the hotel and its dramatic location, surrounded by mountains and the ocean.

Iceland wedding by Nordica Photography

Today's wedding takes us to a land far far away. It crosses the boundaries between a travel post and a wedding post. I lived in the UK for 8 years and did a lot of travelling, and whilst Iceland was always high on my list of places to visit I never quite made it there. I was mad keen on landscape photography and as you can see by these stunning images from our friends at Nordica Photography, Iceland is certainly a site to behold. Hopefully one day I'll make it there but in the meantime I will have to live vicariously through weddings like this!
Becky & Ymir wanted a big adventure in Iceland, culminating in their wedding. With guests travelling such a distance to be there with them they wanted to ensure they got to see the country and with the ceremony held in the great outdoors with glacial backdrops they certainly did. Although it sounds like they were lucky to see what they did considering there was a volcanic eruption only weeks earlier threatening to put a damper on the venue!
I hope you enjoy the drama of these incredible and stunning photos! And a big thanks to Nordica for sharing with us!
  

Photography | Nordica Photography, Location | Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon and Hrollaugsstadir, Event planner | Viking Vedding Planning, LLC, Floral design | Embla Vigfusdottir + Bjorn Borgthor , Wedding dress | Manuel Mota, alterations by Barbara Bartoszewski & Edie Mans, Make up | Theresa Vokes consultation, Grooms suit | Karlmenn, Reykjavik, Invitations+ paper goods | Embla Vigfusdottir, Cake | Hilda Mitchell, Music | Vigfus Ecclectica and Leon Danon