Jade and Jason have been some of our best clients.  We have photographed their wedding, engagement, and also their day after session.  They are two of the nicest people that we have ever met.  Jade and Jason got married at Duke’s restaurant in Malibu, California, overlooking the beach.  The wedding was a magical day, and featured absolutely beautiful scenery for us to work with.  Jade and Jason have been planning this day for a while, and it turned out amazing.  The reception was very entertaining, and we were able to capture some great shots on the dance floor.  We recently photographed their Day After Session, which will be featured on our blog very soon!

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Jen and Gil are coming to the blog soon, but I thought I would share one more from their session!

After filming our promotional video in Temecula Valley a couple of weeks ago, we had the opportunity to photograph Andrea and Jason.  It was nice and cloudy all day, until our shoot began.  At that moment, the rain came down.  Andrea and Jason are no quitters, so we toughed it out, and got some amazing photos of them.  We were able to use the grounds at South Coast Winery (Amazing winery BTW) in order to capture some great moments of these two.   You can tell these two are in love by the way they interact with each other.  Temecula Valley is a beautiful place for engagement photography, as after shooting at South Coast, we headed across the street into the orange groves, where we were able to capture some great photos of these two!  We can’t wait to see them in September for their wedding in San Juan Capistrano!

Mari and Jeff had an absolutely beautiful wedding.  Mari looked stunning in her wedding dress, and Jeff looked great in his Marine uniform.  I knew that for this wedding I was going to combine a military element, with a country theme.  It came out great!  This wedding had the most entertaining ceremony that I have ever been to, as Jeff’s Marine buddy was officiating it.  Jeff also made sure that his Harley Davidson was front and center in attendance for his and Mari’s big day.  This wedding took place at the Camarillo Ranch House, which was an absolutely beautiful venue!  I loved the rustic elements that this venue featured.  The reception took place on the main lawn, which had lights strung from the trees above.  This gave the event a magical feel.  Mari and Jeff opted to serve their guests drinks in mason jars, and that gave this wedding a beautiful touch.  Well Mari and Jeff, congratulations on your big day, and thank you for allowing us to capture it for you!

-Michael

Yesterday’s E-session was one of my favorites in a while, our clients, Jen and Gil, headed out with me to Downtown Los Angeles, where we hit the town and photographed at a few different locations, all within a block of each other. For our last shot of the night, I knew I wanted to do something special with them, using off camera lighting, as we got some amazing natural light photographs earlier in the day. We headed out to LA Live. As we were walking down the sidewalk I saw this shot and knew I would be able to create a magical look for this awesome couple. This was the result!

-Michael

We had the opportunity to photograph Jared and Bri during the filming of our promotion video in Temecula Valley California.  It is no secret that I absolutely love everything about Temecula Valley; the wine, the Farmers Market, Old Town, the wine, the 38 rustic wedding venues, and oh yes, the wine.  We had the opportunity to photograph two sessions while we were there over the weekend, and this is a little bit of what we got!

Most of you know that Jen has been up to her ears in things to do lately.  We are busy creating a new brand for our baby/maternity clients, and in doing so we are putting together our newborn studio, as well as her new website, www.JenniferMarilyn.com.  We are going to have much more on that later, but we wanted to give all of you a sneak peak of her session with Laura and Pete.  Laura and Pete are expecting twins in May, little Peter and Sophia.  Laura had something special in mind for her session and really wanted to shoot in Mentryville, which is one of our favorite places to photograph these sessions.  We will be photographing their twins in our newborn studio in May and we can hardly wait!  Laura did awesome during our session, as Mentryville, although beautiful, can require a lot of work getting from one place to another.  The final product was worth it, and will display really well in this couple’s home!

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Jamie and Chris had a beautiful wedding at the La Canada Country Club in La Canada, California.  As I stated on their engagement post, Jamie and Chris have a very unique relationship.  Jamie and Chris are both Missionaries, and have spent a good amount of their relationship apart from one another.  Take a look below at their awesome story:

How we met

Chris:

We’ve met online actually. I was just about ready to leave the dating site when Jamie caught my eye.  One last try I thought and wow….. it worked!!!!!

Jamie:

For me, I actually didn’t sign up to it myself, my friends got it for me for my birthday.  I thought since they paid for it, I’ll give it a try.  To be honest, I didn’t like it at all!  Most of the guys didn’t read my profile, they just want someone to talk to.  When Chris messaged me, I thought to myself  another random guy, ok, I’ll be nice, he won’t see me tomorrow.  But surprisingly he read all of my profile, and that’s how the friendship began.

How our long distance relationship has worked out:

It was very hard, but I have to give the credit to Chris.  He tried to make himself available and even changed his work schedule in order to talk to me.  I didn’t want to do video chat or talk on the phone right away, so we used email.  Soon after I felt more comfortable, knowing he’s sincere and we’re actually going somewhere, so we started to chat through Skype.

Since I was in China and Chris was in New Zealand, the 4 hour time difference wasn’t that hard, plus the cheap international messages.  Things got harder after I moved back to LA, bigger time difference, working schedule between the two of us, higher international messages, etc.  But we learned to be more flexible/available with each other’s schedule, plus with the iPhone, and different apps that helped us to stay connected throughout the day.

Open communication is the main key.  Our time on Skype was precious, so whatever issues/conflict we had, we tried to deal with it right away and always remained open and honest with each other.

We often joke around with people telling them we don’t go on cheap dates!! or we only go on dates that involves us flying half way around the world, it’s true in our case

How Chris Proposed………

Jamie and Chris flew to China for a date, where Jamie used to live and work.  Jamie flew in from LA & Chris flew in from New Zealand.  From the first day of the trip, Jamie had an idea Chris was going to propose but just didn’t know when.  And since Jamie had planned out their every day schedule while in China, it was even harder for Chris to surprise her.

On the morning of the proposal day, Jamie was thinking in her head, is he going to pop the question or not?  It’s almost the end of our trip…….  But nothing.  That day was spent with a friend touring around the City of China where Jamie used to work, showing Chris all the sites.  Along the way, Chris made a couple of bathroom stops, which Jamie later found out, were to change into his proposal t-shirt etc.

The last stop was the mountain top where Jamie used to go to for her quiet time, the view up there was beautiful overlooking  the entire city.  Jamie used to take people up there to pray for the city.  That afternoon, they did the same thing; enjoyed the beautiful view and prayed.  As they were praying, Jamie heard the sound of paper blowing around in the wind (it was windy) and as Chris was praying he started to repeat his prayer over and over (super duper long prayer).  FINALLY  he finished, and Jamie couldn’t help but turn her head to find out what the paper noise was, because there shouldn’t be any paper at the mountain top.  That’s when she saw the WHOLE company (people she was close to and worked with) were standing behind her holding a paper each saying, “Jamie will you marry Chris?” “YES!”

Jamie was totally surprised because she had set up the everyday schedule and made it hard for Chris to propose, but he managed to fit it in least where Jamie expected it to be and on top of that, invite a whole lot of friends  to be a part of it!!

Then Chris read a poem to Jamie.  The poem was about the journey how Jamie returned HOME to LA and all the different challenges she had to face and how much she missed her China home where she lived for 3 years.  Then Chris unzipped the jacket he was wearing, the T-shirt he was wearing  said:  Jamie will you marry me?  Everyone was so amazed by how romantic Chris is, but Jamie being herself, as random as she always is was a bit more surprised about Chris’s t-shirt than the actual proposal and said, WHEN DID YOU CHANGE YOUR SHIRT?  and then realized THAT was the reason why Chris had to go to the bathroom so many times

I told you their story was amazing

-Jen and Mike

Dalia and Carlos called us about photographing their wedding this May in Palmdale, Ca.  After giving her directions to our home studio for our consultation, we realized that we were actually neighbors!  No not like 5 minutes away neighbors, more like let’s walk down the street 5 houses neighbors.  Dalia has an eye for detail, as well as fashion.  She wanted a location that would incorporate the beach, as well as a bit of an urban vive.  We cannot think of a better location for that type of shoot than The Santa Monica Pier.  Carlos and Dalia are great together, and you can tell they are in love.  We are looking forward to photographing their wedding at the Rancho Vista Country Club next month!

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