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What do you get when you fly out two Oklahoman’s out to the Pacific Northwest at the end of autumn when winter is right on the cusp and you set them up on a 7-mile round-trip trail no one in your group has ever hiked before to get them married at a mountain lake next to nobody has heard about?

When autumn hits Northern Idaho, it’s unlike anything else. The air becomes thick with fireplace smoke and the musky smell of crimson and burnt orange leaves. The Tamarack go ablaze in various hues of yellows, spotting mountainsides with flame and color.

It was set against the setting sun, as dust, juniper and sage brush became the glorious chorus that made this elopement session scream with beauty. There was so much love, and their smiles were never ending, that I doubt I ever lifted my finger from the shutter key.