An Arctic Honeymoon

An ARctic HoneyMoon

An Arctic Honeymoon

Exploring Iceland:

Northern Lights

Norður og Niður Music Festival

Hotpots(Hotspings)

And much more!

Capturing the Northern lights

We were fortunate, yes fortunate, enough, to take our honeymoon in Iceland around the Winter Solstice 2017, (6 months after the wedding.) We spent a little over two weeks traveling the Southern half of the country.

We were constantly met with the kindest hearts and warmest homes. We spent the Christmas holiday secluded in a small village at the western tip of the snaefellsnes peninsula at the base of Snæfellsjökull. Snæfellsjökull is a 700,000-year-old glacier capped stratovolcano which is where it gets its overall shape.

On Christmas night, we were fortunate enough to catch the Northern Lights. We brought our wedding outfits to Iceland in hope of getting some awesome photos... After almost two hours in freezing temperatures and dozens of attempts of capturing the perfect long-exposure while posing, we caught some magik!

New Years In Iceland

Going in to this trip we knew it would be dark, and we knew it would be cold... what we didn't know was how the Icelandic culture makes up for this.

Throughout the holiday season, fireworks are sold in ridiculous amounts. People will get together and shoot them off regularly. On New Years they make sure to let it all out. They'll congregate and form massive bonfires, and then light every firework they can get their hands on. The night sky is lit up regularly by dazzling colorful explosions. Every church becomes a center for people in that neighborhood to come together. It's quite the spectacle.

Exploring the land

We were blessed with great weather for the majority of the trip, and even when the weather wasn't great it made for beautiful landscape.

We saw many a wild horse and countless frozen waterfalls. We sat in awe of their sweeping landscapes that epitomize the land of fire and ice.