After the Vows, Hit the Slopes ,A Diamond Peak Wedding Day After

Some couples celebrate with a honeymoon suite and room service. This couple had other plans. The morning after their Incline Village wedding, they laced up their boots, clipped into their skis, and pointed their tips downhill at Diamond Peak — fresh tracks, champagne legs, and all.

The timing could not have been more perfect. A late season storm had rolled through the Sierra the night before the wedding, dropping nearly two feet of fresh snow on the mountains above Lake Tahoe. By morning, the skies had cleared to that brilliant, cloudless blue that skiers dream about all season. Diamond Peak was blanketed in untouched powder, the lake shimmering below in full view from every run — one of the most spectacular ski backdrops in the world.

Still wearing the glow of the night before, the two of them carved through the snow like they had nowhere else to be — because for one perfect morning, they didn't. They laughed the entire way down Crystal Ridge. . What I can tell you is that photographing a bride and groom on the mountain the day after their wedding, with Diamond Peak all to themselves and Lake Tahoe spread out below — that's a morning I won't forget.

If you're planning a Lake Tahoe or Incline Village wedding and want to build in a mountain adventure the next day, Diamond Peak is as good as it gets, intimate, uncrowded, and with views that remind you exactly why you chose Tahoe in the first place. And if you want someone there to capture all of it, I'd love to be your photographer.