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Someday I’ll share some pictures of our new place (whenever I can clean it first!) but I have a lot of shoots and the like to share first, so I thought to get started I would post a favorite from some of my work this summer that is pretty much all over the map from San Diego to St. Louis…. these just make me happy:

And summer isn’t over yet right?!?

So with all of this wedding planning and the holidays and home searching and moving my office during the transition, I have unfortunately neglected my blog and keeping you all in the loop. Will you forgive me? It’s one of my goals for this year to diligently blog on a consistent basis… wait for it… for at LEAST once a week. I have so much more from my shoots this last year that I would love to share on here, with more weddings and inspiration shoots to come, and I feel like my perspective on the wedding world has changed incredibly after going through the process for myself. And I want to share. I want to share about our decisions that we made, or anything that I think another bride might find helpful. After 4 years of shooting weddings there was a good deal of knowledge I had going in, but even then I still have had my moments feeling totally lost!

So, for starters, hire an amazing photographer We hired my wonderful friend and incredibly talented photographer John Robert Woods who already killed it with our engagement photos. He just opened a studio in Orange too!

And then, hire an amazing coordinator. Jesi Haack Weddings is pretty much saving my life right now and I couldn’t recommend this girl enough. I first met her as a bridesmaid in a wedding I shot a couple years back that she also coordinated and it has been so fun to watch her absolutely KILL it in the wedding industry and grow into one of the most highly sought after wedding designer/planner/coordinator’s out there right now. Love her.

So that is my update for now… and what is a post without any photos on a photo blog??

This was taken last weekend when we went back and visited the spot where he proposed. Awe.

There is a sweet restaurant called the Wine Cellar with a pretty cool entrance … I loved the space and feel…

The texture of the wall was awesome and I liked how the steps were carpeted… so many textures and patterns and great leading lines in there. Hope you like it

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in *LOVE* …

This is a dream wedding for me… a wonderful couple who loves being outside, epic scenery, amazing light, and my favorite…. time for a lot of pictures! The most important things to them were the pictures they would get to take with them after the day, so we planned plenty of time to capture it all. They were game for doing their “First Look” before the ceremony so we found a gorgeous woodsy area on the resort property to set it up… and Ryan, being the incredibly thoughtful soon-to-be husband had a gift in hand while waiting patiently to see his bride for the first time…

This one was one of my favorites

*LOVE* it!! He got her a journey necklace. So stinkin thoughtful Ryan! This was one of my very favorite moments from the day. There are much more to come, and not to mention the fact that we did a “Day After” shoot where they got all dressed up AGAIN the day after their wedding and we took a cable car up to high camp for some amazing shots overlooking the valley with the lake in the background…

I had the help of the lovely and talented Jen Disney for this wedding too. Did I mention this being a dream wedding for me to shoot yet?

Just sayin.