A Simple, Beautiful Vow Renewal in Costa Rica

I love photographing vow renewals.

I picked up Sarah and Brian from Tulemar Buena Vista Villas and the three of us headed down to the beach for a very special ceremony. Sarah and Brian had decided to renew their wedding vows on their five year anniversary, and I was honored to be the photographer to document this special day.

As it was a renewal, there was no officiant. It was just the two of them on a secluded part of the beach in Manuel Antonio. Being such an intimate affair, they asked me to stay back a little further than normal as the vows were just for their ears, so I just used my long lens and tried to capture the feel of the ceremony.

Later, we went on a walk and explored some of the dramatic rocks on the beach in the late afternoon sun. Although we did not have a sunset that day, we had some really awesome and unique cloud formations as the afternoon turned into dusk.