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Author Archives: Mearle

About Us:

Your wedding day is really all about YOU, but if we have to talk about us, then here’s a snapshot:

We offer fast action digital photography for those candid moments.

We are experts in the use of both 35mm and medium format film cameras.

Our cameras will capture the fleeting moments and preserve them forever.

We easily handle formal group photographs of your wedding

We can offer you black and white images as well as color.

We are home-based in Tumwater, Washington

Our rates are very reasonable.

We are reliable.

And last, but not least, we love our work!

Sincerely, Mearle Gates

Echo and Jared’s Wedding

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SheAnna and Brent’s Wedding

A fine wedding for SheAnna and Brent at Jesus Name Pentecostal church in Chehalis. It’s just awesome to me when the bride places a high priority on allowing me to play with the bridal party and take the time to find some cool locations for our photography. I don’t ordinarily blog quite so many from...

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Amy and Joe’s Wedding

Prints from this wedding may be ordered on-line at http://whiteveilstudios.zenfolio.com/amy_joe_wedding Amy and Joes’ Wedding At the Puyallup Pavilion.

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Michele and Mark’s Wedding

We began the day at the Lucky Eagle Casino.

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Summer & Richard’s Excellent Wedding

The “Works”. No expense spared to make this a very special wedding event for Summer and Richard, Just beautiful! Location: Thornewood Castle, Lakewood, WA

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Summer’s Boudoir Shoot

Lovely Summer, soon to be the bride of Richard come February, came in today for her boudoir photo shoot. Richard will be in for a treat with a sweet collection of images of Summer that she posed and picked specially for him. I can only post a couple here now. We don’t want to spoil...

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Nancy and Paul

This was a typical location portrait session that we did with Nancy and Paul in the yard of their Ballard home.

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A Family Shoot – Rebecca, Stefan, and Anna

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Emerald and Danial

What a wonderful and entertaining wedding! I have never seen the groom and groomsmen put on quite the show for a bride before. Emerald was obviously dearly loved by all in attendance. Everyone had a great time. What a party! Pictures from the whole wedding are now available for viewing and print ordering on Emerald’s...

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Elizabeth & Kabe

Elizabeth and Kabe were united in marriage at the Gibson House in Centralia today. Melodie and I had the honor of doing their comprehensive photographic coverage from getting ready to the reception. As always weddings like this have a serious burden of responsibility to reliably capture everything that happens and everyone that it happens with,...

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