Poertner.Trenholm engagement

I had met Jacque years ago through the Yellowstone Club and at several of her friends' weddings. Last year I was flattered when Jacque and Marc asked me to photograph their wedding. I was even more excited when I found out that it was going to be in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I met up with Jacque and Marc last week to take their engagement portraits and we had such a fun time driving around Paradise Valley finding the perfect backdrop for their bike photographs and a photo with their dog. (If you want to see more of Paradise Valley rent Racho Deluxe which was shot in Livingston in 1975 and starred Jeff Bridges.)

After visiting the valley we went to the frontage road just by my house where I LOVE the view of Livingston Peak just behind the two of them.

I think it looks like a painted backdrop, but I can assure you it is real as well as the snow on the mountains.

Marc had proposed to Jacque while they were in Mexico, which is why they are getting married there with just their closest friends and family. The ring that he was having designed for her wasn't ready yet so instead he wanted to find a purple sucker ring that was Jacque's favorite when she was younger. He searched everywhere for one of the suckers and couldn't find one so instead he bought this acrylic ring from Alara in Bozeman and proposed with that instead.
I had to get a few shots of the two of them with the acrylic engagement ring! I don't know of any other couple that has had one.

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