Recently I married the man of my dreams!!!

Eric and I ran away to Dominica to elope and celebrate our honeymoon. It might seem strange or maybe it's totally normal that after attending a thousand weddings I wanted something special and simple for my own wedding.
What we ended up doing was picking one of our favorite waterfalls, Middleham Falls, to exchange our wedding vows, rings, and have our first kiss. We had a small hike to get to the waterfall and went early so that we would have the spot to ourselves. Later we made more wedding photos around Dominica to show off the beauty of the island.

We made our own wedding photos and video by setting up a camera and a GoPro on a tripod.


PS Crown Images Website

I'm sure you all know at this point that I'm a photographer based on St Thomas. My clients find me mostly online, so it is so important that I have a strong website to show my photographs. I just made a new website that I welcome you to visit here http://sagehammond.com. Please let me know what you think.

Lately I have found myself working a lot, so I've started taking a moment to myself at the end of each day. My happy place is on the porch with a glass of wine and watching the last bit of light fade away from the day. I love seeing the shift of colors in the sky change... it is one of my favorite times of day. 

Since I'm recently engaged and thinking about my wedding, I've started to look for a little white dress to wear when I get married. It's a little strange that I never thought about what kind of wedding dress that I would wear to my own wedding, I guess I've always thought about the being married part and not the day. Since I'm a destination wedding photographer I've seen everything from a white bikini to the traditional American princess wedding dress and I love them all.
Since my wedding is going to be very untraditional I plan to have a very simple dress that just makes me feel good. I was even thinking about this emerald green dress until Eric seemed upset that it wasn't white. So, I guess I'm going to keep with  the white dress tradition. How did you pick your wedding dress?



PS First dress from bebe, second dress from BHLDN, and the last 2 are from Free People (yes, I'm a bit of a hippy girl at heart). I also really like J.Crew's wedding stuff.

I'm missing my little blog this year.
For some reason 2013 has been extremely busy for me and Sage Island hasn't had many updates. I have had an amazing year photographing destination beach weddings (lots of new photos on CROWN IMAGES blog), this might even be my best year yet. I also started offering more photography services this year (vacation photography on St Thomas) and that has been really successful. It seems that there are a lot of people that want photographs made while they are vacationing here on St Thomas (which is just awesome) take a look HERE. 
If that all just isn't enough Eric and I are in the works of starting a new business this fall (more on this later.)
There are a lot of really wonderful things going on in 2013 that I hope to find the time to share a few of them soon......

 Have you ever had acupuncture? Recently I hurt my back and since I'm not a fan of going to the chiropractor, I thought I would try something new.  So, I went to see Dr. May Trieu at the Nirvana Healing Temple who came highly recommended from many people living here in the Virgin Islands. I don't understand how it works but my back feels so much better.

PS More photos at the Temple HERE.

 The last couple of months have been a little overwhelming and consuming- let me bring you up-to-date:  right before we went on our vacation to CA we lost our cat Ming to FIV (this was heartbreaking), the apartment we had lined-up fell through, and in a mad scramble we found another rental. We're still living on the North Side of St Thomas and our new spacious 3 bedroom apartment  has an amazing porch, a yard surrounded in fruit trees, and the landlord is a wonderful couple that have made us feel very welcomed (did you notice the handmade broom above? They made that for us!)
Oh, we also adopted a kitten from the St Thomas Human Society, we're calling her Cleo and are completely in love.
With everything unpacked I should have more time to share here on this blog and if you're in the neighborhood please stop by to say hello!!!