Tressamé + Jonathan Wedding Day | Eureka Springs, Arkansas

If you follow all my silly updates on Facebook (I’m not a tweeter…yet), you might have read one of my updates saying that I was going to be staying at one of America’s MOST haunted hotels for a wedding I was shooting! Nestled smack dab in the middle of an artsy and hilly/”healing water” town of Eureka Springs, AR, stands The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa. Go ahead, google, it! Ghost stories galore will pop up! Of course, my friend, Tressamé, would choose a place like this to have her wedding. 😉 In college we would make frequent visits here to be silly and take photos on the staircase hoping to see a ghost and hang out on the rooftop to have a beer and take in the Ozark mountain view. It’s actually quite charming, keeping a lot of the original character. It even has all the same furniture and wallpaper, with updated baths (thank goodness!).

To give you a little bit of history of this hotel – it was originally the Crescent College & Conservatory for Young Women. Due to the Great Depression, the college closed and it was converted into Baker’s Cancer Curing Hospital. However, Mr. Baker wasn’t really a doctor, and many people died and story has it, still roam the halls. Supposedly, there is a ton of paranormal activity going on! They were even doing nightly tours just outside our room (#3500, a.k.a. Pain Asylum / bridal suite) where I slept with one eye open the entire time, scared out of my wits. The next night I had to ask a bridesmaid if she was willing to share a room, because I couldn’t sleep alone! ha! (Thanks, Kelli!)

But all the silly ghost stories didn’t change the minds of Tressamé & Jonathan, where they celebrated their intimate wedding ceremony on the East Lawn with their most cherished family members, no ghosts allowed. 😉 Afterwards, we got to walk around the property to take some fun photos. 😉 One person drove past us yelling Look! It’s a ghost!, but no, it was just Tressamé climbing an ivy wall – dress + veil blowing in the wind! Dinner + dancing followed, where I’m not gonna lie, my seat was pushed in towards the table. Thinking I was in the way, I turned around to apologize, but NO ONE was there! When I returned home, I told Ryan all about the trip. His words exactly: “Come, on!” I don’t think he believed that I encountered a ghost!

Tressamé + Jonathan: Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your BIG day. I can’t believe that with all the photos I took throughout college of you, that one day I would be photographing your most special day. Congrats!

If you missed their engagement session visit here.

xox

HSR