Hello there all my fellow weekenders! I hope your weekend was as great as ours…we shot a sweet wedding at the Ebell Club in Long Beach. Have you ever been there? It’s so rad and it makes me happy. Not to mention Gladys and Edwin were the perfect clients to work with, but more on them at a later date. I’ve had my coffee now and am feeling awake so I thought I’d post the blog post a bit early today.  Today we have Allan and Veronica’s engagement session to share with you, and oh boy is it a good one. Why? Well, these two are adorable and the weather was perfect and basically the shoot was a success (complete with Rico saving the day by fixing a broken dress using a razor-blade …go Rico!).  We met up in Malibu at Veronica and Allan’s favorite beach and just spent some time hanging out, getting to know them, and taking some pics. Below is the result of our time and I think you’ll be pleased, how could you not, these two have a way with the camera. Allan and Veronica, thank you for such a fun session and for being so easy to work with….counting the days until your wedding next month; counting the days my friends. Enjoy!

Oh boy, here we are at Monday again and I definitely found myself wanting to take a sick day when my alarm went off this morning. Although we had a pretty killer weekend (in the good sense), waking up Monday morning has never been an easy task for me. What did we do this weekend, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. We went up to San Luis Obispo for a rainy engagement session with Luca and Carly (such troopers!) and then just hung out the rest of the weekend with my bff and her fam. Even though it rained, it was heavenly and just what we needed. Oh and I must say I am feeling very accomplished that we made it home because driving through LA in a storm like yesterday’s was quite the challenge….luckily we stopped at Flore in LA for a quick bite that blew my mind. Seriously amazing vegan awesomess…I got the Tu-No Melt with the beet salad and just about passed out right there. If you live in LA go there, NOW.

Ok, enough about our weekend (although I know you SO enjoy hearing about what I had for lunch)…today we have a rad boudoir shoot to share with you. Boudoir? Yes, remember a while back I mentioned that we also do boudoir? Well, we do and we love it. I shoot most of the shoots alone or with a female assistant, but sometimes we have a client that is cool with Rico coming along and shooting some of the less revealing parts of the shoot (he provides an amazing non female perspective). That is exactly what happened in the fashion-inspired boudoir shoot I have for you today, oh and NOT ONLY was Rico shooting, so was our amazing intern Delaney (she is a talented make-up artist as well and did Kristy’s make-up, so fyi if you’re looking for some of the best make-up EVER for your wedding). So Kristy had to deal with THREE of us, and let me tell you, she was amazing….we even did this in a public park! Goooooo Kristy! So I’ll stop my yapping and let the pictures speak for themselves. If anyone is interested in a boudoir session, you should just head over to your email right now because I’m offering a $50 discount if you book a session by the end of the week and have Delaney do your make-up. WHAT?? I know, email me…go on.

Also, again I must mention that it appears some people are not receiving my emails. So if you haven’t heard from me and were expecting to, then definitely email me and let me know because it’s quite possible my email either went to your spam or didn’t arrive at all! Sheesh, come on technology! love you all and enjoy!

And in case you were wondering where her rad clothes are from:

Sweater is from LF

Jumper is from Urban Outfitters

Hey there! Me again…miss me since yesterday? I know, I know. Well, just stopping by really quickly to let you know of a special feature you should check out today. We were featured TWICE today on one of my fave wedding blogs Forget.Me.Knot.Weddings. Megan is quite the wedding style expert and a total sweetheart so I think you should head on over there and leave some love for her AND us! Many many thanks to you Megan for featuring Tommy and Lydia today…we adore you AND get yourself down here to SD so we can hang out! xoxox