Just after this bride had finished getting ready, Brea Marie and Alex Lefler of The Wayfarers decided to commemorate the time just before she’d walk down the aisle by making an in-camera double exposure. After photographing the bride by the window to catch some natural light, the photo duo photographed a painting that was painted by the bride’s grandmother called Moon Reflecting on Water.

“My grandmother is my inspiration in adventure, creativity and in all life,” the bride told Alex and Brea Marie. “When she paints the night sky, which is rare, I am so drawn. I see a bit of myself in her nighttime landscapes. This one in particular, I asked her to take it down from a show so I could bring it home. The moonlight, the crashing waves, the stars. Somehow it feels like she painted me, or she knows me, or I’m safer having it look over me in my home. Your double exposure feels that way to me also—having her surrounding me, feeling supported always.”

And just as the bride cherishes the painting mounted on her wall, her grandmother now has this photograph hanging in her home.

(Shot on a Canon 5D Mark III and underexposed both images “to create a deeper, moodier image,” the photographers say.)

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