5 Fave Instagram Posts of the Week: 9.16.16

We make a point to follow the best and brightest in creative local wedding planning, and every Friday we round up our five favorite photos from the last week's feed. Follow these incredible photographers and vendors on Instagram for more gorgeous inspiration! To be featured in next week's roundup, tag your best wedding photos with #oregonbride. Don't forget to follow us at @oregonbridemag for your daily dose of pretty! Once again, congrats to this week's faves!

Sweet little origami cranes were given to each guest at Megan & Chris' wine country wedding as a nod to the bride's Asian heritage - love the thoughtfulness and simplicity of this small detail! And they of course paired perfectly with the couples' gold foil invites from @minted mmmhmm! Venue: @vistahillsvineyard Invitations: @minted Film Processing: @thefindlab #sweetlifephotographyportland #filmphotographer #contax645 #fuji400h

A photo posted by Anna - Sweetlife Photography (@sweetlifephoto.anna) on Sep 12, 2016 at 4:03pm PDT

“A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox I'm ever thankful for my brides who are also down with wildflowers, herbs, and so called "weeds". They are both down to earth and elegant at the same time. | @jessica_k_watson

A photo posted by Alli Schreck (@bramblefloral) on Sep 6, 2016 at 8:14am PDT

I should be asleep. I have a rare moment of actually having the capability to go to bed and get more than a few hours of rest, but I'm not. For those of you who are artists, you photographers, you painters, you dancers, where do you draw your inspiration? Is it music? Or a shadow? Art museums or the way a new dish tastes? I've found recently that I've had difficulty being inspired by peers in my industry. That's not to say I don't see beautiful work, I do. But it doesn't make me want to rush from my current task to go do something new. Lately, I've looked to other things to inspire me: the way leaves dip in water as the breeze passes over a river, how a groom looks at his bride for the first time, how a tomato just picked from the garden, ripe and soaked with the sun tastes of summer. Instead of sleeping I'm watching @netflix 's new spin off #ChefsTable, this time the chefs are only from France. If you haven't had a chance to watch the series, do it. Watching just one episode fills me with ideas in the same way that visiting an art museum for hours fills my sketch pad. Chefs Table inspires me to look around and pull from my surroundings in my work. It makes me hungry to find new ways of seeing things I see constantly in the same light. It makes me want to be more, to find better ways of doing what I do both in practice and in my craft. So. To my fellow artists, what inspires you?

A photo posted by Trish Laver (@trishlaverphoto) on Sep 10, 2016 at 12:00am PDT

Rachel + Lexi / Union/Pine / Portland, Oregon

A photo posted by Mark Mirocha (@markmirochaweddings) on Sep 4, 2016 at 1:55pm PDT

All the lavender in Provençe is making me nostalgic for our engagement session in the Willamette Valley, OR Click the link in profile to see more! Featured on @stylemepretty | Photography by @sweetlifephoto.jake @sweetlifephoto.jake

A photo posted by Lauren Hartman (@trousseaustyle) on Sep 13, 2016 at 8:53am PDT