Lucy and Lorenzo's Wedding 3.23.07

I have a thing for Lucy and Lorenzo. They are both avid blog readers and found me by reading through different blogs, not photography websites. When they were meeting with me, they recognized one of my other clients, Heather, from her blog "Go Fug Yourself" - that disses celebrity fashion. Very funny. So these bookish Harvard grads are also up on their pop culture - I love it! I suppose I think of myself as counter-culture but keeping a pulse on the mainstream, you know ;-) Anyway, we had a blast photographing this wedding. Though there were some long drives (about an hour between the ceremony and the reception) we ended up at Palos Verdes Country Club which is a great place to shoot. I was really into that huge tree! It was great to meet Echo @ Pink by Echo who ws the coordinator. She did a great job. The Mariachi band was fun as well. They were both at the church and the reception!

Hillary and John's Wedding 3.17.07

Hillary was my first assistant when she was in school at Art Center a couple of years ago. She is a wonderful person. Since graduating, she moved down to San Diego, then went on a brief stint to Japan and met the man of her dreams online and moved with him to Ft. Worth, TX where he is in a graduate program at South Baptist Seminary. I was raised Jewish(but am more of a Buddhist now) and Hillary is an incredibly devout Christian - so we would have incredible spiritual conversations as we were editing through wedding photos. I mean, in the end....it's all so similar, you know? Anyway, I'm really glad we kept in touch and I was honored when she wanted me to come down and photograph her wedding in Ft. Worth. My husband came down with me a couple days early and we went to Austin to check out some of the SXSW Music Festival (Ugh, so much fun!)....and then up to Ft. Worth to photograph this beautiful wedding. Here are just some photos that I dig. I really love the one where they are all praying for the couple at the end of the night.

My darling little godchild........

Well you might have seen Jenny's pregnancy photos on the website (mixed reviews on that one!) and here is the beautiful outcome - Ester! I just love her so much. Isn't she gorgeous?

Irene and Mike's Wedding, 2.17.07

Irene and Mike are just one of those couples that I love. We had a blast at their engagement shoot and I was really excited to shoot their wedding. We had a bunch of different locations to shoot at so I was worried that we would run late, but when I got to Irene's hotel room early, she was all ready to go sans her dress. Anyway, the day ran really smoothly, especially because of their fabulous coordinator, Ruth Wang. Anyway, I can't exactly put my fingers on it, but I just love these wedding photos. They just make me smile when I look through them. Heather was my 2nd shooter on this wedding and she did a terrific job shooting the guys. I had fun playing with my new Boutwell actions (software) on this one......I love them.

Michelle and Andrew's Engagement Shoot

Michelle emailed me a couple of weeks ago and said that she wanted an engagement shoot, though she wasn't sure of her exact wedding plans. Great! You know how I LOVE engagement shoots. She really like Christine and Brian's shoot on my Blog where we did the different colored walls in Hollywood. Well, we didn't want to do the EXACT same thing, but we met in a different section of Hollywood and it's amazing what we foung. We met at Karma Coffeehouse on Cahuenga. It was so crowded, I was a bit hesitant to ask to shoot inside but this lovely musician who was playing his songs outside let us include him in some art! Michelle and Andrew are so in love, it's amazing. I barely posed them at all - I just let them do their thing, and it was beautiful.

Averil and Dylan's Wedding 1.14.07

Well, it's great to be back doing weddings in the New Year with such a lovely couple! Averil is from New Zealand and booked me from over there (don't you love the internet) and Dylan is a self-proclaimed MIT nerd. The wedding was at the Victorian in Santa Monica, CA but because we couldn't get in there till later in the afternoon, I suggested that Averil get ready at the Viceroy hotel so that we could perhaps take pictures there. It's a little bit of a scene so I wasn't sure how cool they would be about it but luckily, it was so cold that no one was around and I got some great portraits of Averil there. The we went over to the Victorian, which as this beautiful, old world flair and very fun to photograph. She had emailed me a photo of her dress before the wedding and I was psyched! Isn't it fabulous? I love New Zealand accents so it was very fun to hear all of Averil's family throughout the wedding. They are a SUPER cute couple and this was a lovely wedding!