First Comes Love

It’s always a little scary when you book a client over the phone and have never met them. It’s also extremely embarrassing when you go to meet them for their engagement shoot and sit five feet away from for ten minutes before you realize that they are your clients! They thought I was Asian (they attended a wedding I shot, but thought I was my second shooter) and I thought Christine was brunette (I had no factual reason to believe she was brunette, just thought she was!). I thought they would see me with my cameras, but it turns out they didn’t. I’m glad I went up and asked them

Christine and Fernando met after Fernando’s sister introduced them. Christine was the teacher of Fernando’s niece and they met at her birthday party. Christine fell for Fernando right away, but Fernando is a bit shy. It took Christine finally asking him out for them to go on their first date And now they are getting married!

This lucky couple is having two weddings! Their first wedding is a small, intimate destination wedding being held in August at the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel. Christine lived in California for a few years and loves it here and considers herself a California girl at heart (she still hasn’t changed her 714 area code!). Their second wedding is being held in New Jersey a couples of weeks later.

I’m super excited to be apart of their wedding! It’s going to be a lovely day with lots of time to take pictures For now, here’s the slideshow!

I’m sure many of you will remember Karyn and Mark from Mark’s super sweet anniversary gift to Karyn earlier this year.  Mark won the boyfriend of the year award by surprising his girlfriend of 10 years, Karyn, with a photo shoot and a super sweet letter that was posted on the blog.  I was so very excited to finally get to meet the two of them at their shoot last week at UCLA.  Mark recently finished his MBA at Anderson Business School so they wanted to do their shoot at UCLA.  Of course, I never pass up an opportunity to hang out at my old stomping grounds!

I love how you can see just how proud Karyn is of Mark for getting his MBA, but you can also tell how happy she is to finally have her boyfriend back.  Mark worked full time while getting his MBA on evenings and the weekends.  That’s crazy!  Hopefully now that he’s done he can actually start going to UCLA football games with Karyn!  And maybe get engaged  :)  No pressure or anything, Mark!

And one last reason I love Karyn and Mark… their dog, Britney, is named after Britney Spears.  How cool is that?  I think I’ve finally met people that love her as much as I do!  Karyn and Mark, we’re totally going to her next concert together!  Here’s your slideshow!

Karen and Alex met at church just before graduating from their respective colleges. Shockingly they dated and fell in love although Alex is a Bruin (yeah!) and Karen is a Trojan (boo!). I don’t know how a Bruin could possibly marry a Trojan  But, I seem to have a lot of these couples lately so they must not be that bad!  Good thing Karen’s negative quality (her Trojaness) is outweighed by her positive qualities – beauty, brains, and a great sense of humor! Poor Alex is forced to go many USC football games, though. That’s love!

We had a lot of fun exploring Laguna Beach together and had beautiful weather after it had just rained the day before.  I love shooting in Laguna, but when I was first starting my business I shot there all the time.  It’s hard to not shoot at the same places.  I had a fun time challenging myself to make Laguna look different and find new places to shoot!  I love shooting there this time of year because it’s so beautiful, but we don’t have to deal with the insane amount of people who will flock there in a month or two!

Karen and Alex were referred to me by one of my all time most favorite couples, Ki and Andrew! It will be great to see them at Alex and Karen’s August wedding in Pasadena!

Thanks, Karen and Alex for spending a beautiful afternoon in Laguna with me! I can’t wait for your wedding! Here’s your slideshow!