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