Today is a special day…why you ask? I just like Thursdays ok! Since today is a day that I like, I thought to myself “why not share a shoot of a couple I REALLY LIKE (even more than I like Thursdays AND nachos AND margaritas. yeah, I know, intense). Well, I think you will find them just as like-able! Today I want to introduce you to Jake and Melinda. Rico and I went to college with Jake (go Cal Poly!!!) and he was one of our closest friends there. We’ve been friends for about 8 or 9 years now and I would say that pretty much qualifies us for bestie status, not to mention the all night talks, the many hours at Uptown, AND all the car advice. Soooooo, after college Jake met the ADORABLE ADORABLE ADORABLE Melinda and the rest was history, they were married two years ago and have been living the Pasadena life every since. When hanging out,  Jake and I enjoy our “upbeat” conversations while Rico and Melinda talk about modern furniture, it’s good times all around. Well, for their anniversary we decided to do a little shoot for them near our house in Mission Hills and below is what came from it…. pure Jake and Melinda hotness all over the place. I know it’s not technically an engagement session, but how could I NOT share that with you? So for your viewing pleasure, the like-able, sometimes cynical (but still optimistic), modern furniture loving and mechanical engineering skilled Jake and Melinda!

WAIT, before you look just a few announcements/reminders. If you email me on Thursday through Sunday I’m more slow in responding, sigh, just the nature of crazy busy wedding season.  You know I still love you right?? RIGHT? Also, we are quickly filling up for 2011 wedding bookings and will only be taking a few more dates, so if you’re on the fence about when to book, shoot me a little email and lets talk about it. At least you’ll make a new friend in the process! ALSO, I will be posting about this again next week probably  but I wanted to mention it now since the holidays will be here sooner than we think. Some of you already know this, but I do boudoir photography as well and I recently put up a little website (the final one is still being designed, so this one is just a little taste of what’s to come). What better gift for your significant other or yourself than some hot pics! My schedule is kind of insane (clients, friends? you know this all too well) so I’m mentioning this early and encouraging you to contact me soon to put something on the calendar if you’re interested. Check out my site HERE to get a taste for my style and what I do. I will probably talk more about my “philosophy” on boudoir next week so for now just go check it out! Alright, enough is enough…I’m sure you’ve had it with my talking. Have a great weekend friends!

Oh my goodness, I’ve so been lagging with my blog posts lately, haven’t I? I know, kind of unacceptable BUT this wedding season has proved itself to be quite the busy one so valid excuse (right???). This last week was so fun for Rico and I. We were up in San Fran and in Malibu for some beautiful weddings of some of my favorite people, who I won’t talk about just yet because I’ll be sharing all those pics at a later time. The weddings were SO BEAUTIFUL though and so much fun that I didn’t even care that our plumbing didn’t work for two days and that I got a lot less sleep than the norm. I even found myself very disappointed when they played the last song at the wedding last night (I didn’t want the night to end!).

So, there you have it, busy weekends lead to slightly delayed blog posts. I have a GREAT one for you today though! Some weeks ago we had the pleasure of meeting with Nadia and Tom and taking some sweet e-pics. They live in Canada and flew down for their client meeting, booked us, and then we did the engagement pics the very next day. We decided to start in Hillcrest since it’s really close to where we live and it has such character. Then we finished the shoot with that natural goodness we all love so much. Tom and Nadia, thank you for coming all the way from Canada to hang out with us and for reminding us of just how fun our job really is. We had a blast spending time with you and getting to know you! Thanks also for being so willing to stand in alleys and lay in the dirt, AND look hot while doing it…can’t wait for some more shooting shenanigans next July! xoxox

Here I am eating my yummy vegan smore from Sweet & Sarah and enjoying my Monday afternoon. I hope you all had relaxing weekends and enjoyed yourselves thoroughly. Ours wasn’t that relaxing, but we sure did enjoy ourselves! We were in San Fran for 4 shoots, one of which was quite the beautiful wedding at the Parc 55 Hotel…complete with a brass band and some handkerchief waving. We made it back late last night and are ready to start the week with a fun engagement session this afternoon and then we head to Napa and Newport on Thursday for some sweet weddings. Sooooo, as you can see it’s our busy season and I have just a quick order of business to attend to. I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting emails from you all, and I will always respond, however for the next several months my email response time will lag just a bit for any emails sent Friday through Sunday. I will DEFINITELY respond the following Monday, just might have to wait a day or so. Not that I had anything to worry about because I know what patient people you are, but I just wanted to keep you in the know.

Ok, now for the post Rachel, right???? Today I’m going to share the engagement session of Hai and Jaelyn. We met with them so long ago when they originally booked with us and I had been waiting and waiting for their engagement session to arrive and it did! AND it was stellar (yes, stellar). They enjoy flying kites at Liberty Station in Point Loma so we started there and EVEN got them up in the air despite the lack of wind (good running skills you two!).  We finished the shoot by walking around Liberty Station and just seeing what we could find, and I’ll tell you what, that place did not let us down! There was even a sign laying around just waiting for us to use it in their shoot. So with, that, I leave with the lovely couple Jaelyn and Hai and all their kite flying abilities (and good looks of course!). Thanks you two for making our job so fun, we can’t wait until October when it’s wedding time!