Earlier this day Ben officially proposed to Lindsey (my best friends little sister) here on Summerland Beach, so it was perfect that we had planned a beach shoot there that afternoon. You Pike ladies are all so fun in front of the camera :) Im so happy for you two! Congrats
I <3 these two. Leah you are a doll (and Nate what ever the masculine version of that is) and we had such a great time with you both. I could gush on about what a great couple you are, but I’ll resist and just get the images up because I know you are excited to see them! Enjoy :) and once again, shout out to the Queensbees for coming in clutch on hair and makeup.
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This is going to be a whirlwind post that really could be two or three seperate ones, but here it goes… Trisha was very enthusiastic about her pictures and the two of us went back and forth several times dreaming up fun ideas. The shoot surpassed my imagination though. Everything came together perfectly. First of all she is a fashionista with fabulous fun outfits, her hair and makeup all polished and prettied by the Queens Bees team who I will never run out of praise for. Then the two of them incorporated a handful of fun personal elements, their dog, beach cruisers, signs, and my personal favorite… their favorite food, fried chicken! Luckily they were sweet enough to let my (wonderfully helpful might i add) assistant Katie and I have a nibble or two while we shot :) I hope you both had as much fun as we did. Can’t wait to see what you put together for the wedding this fall!
more to come on this couple and my adventures when I post their wedding next week {spoil alert : its gonna be good}…. for now ill let the images speak for themselves :)
some more fun shots of ruth and philip, just hanging out on a coffee date at Kreuzberg coffee shop downtown SLO. Their wedding pictures will be following soon!!!
To say I am excited about this couple and this post would not do them justice. I love meeting all my couples and hearing about their love stories, but this is a love story that I got to watch first hand! Emily has become one of my dearest friends over the last couple years I was there when Emily and Toby first connected. It really was love at first sight. It was so fun watching them fall for each other and always get Emily’s excited updates about how stuff was going and getting to see them interact. Toby is so smitten with his beautiful bride to be and I know Emily is thrilled to have found the man of her dreams. I am honored to get to be part of their bridal party this Sunday! Hope you both love these shots :) Can’t wait to do more of you two
Too many great shots to put all into one shoot so I am breaking this one up into two posts!Ruth and Philip met in their dorms freshman year at UCLA. Since then, everything they do together has been a while lotta fun for these two – which is what we really wanted to capture in these shots. They both are very active and surf, snorkel, fish and all things ocean, and enjoy traveling (ruth got her fantastic bracelets on their most recent explorations around South America) and taking pictures too. Their wedding is just a few days away in Big Sur, CA. Can’t wait!
Some family members tried up set Steven and Courtney up, but being justifiably skeptical of set ups (we all have our disaster stories), a meeting was politely put off. Then as fate would have it Steven and Courtney met on their own, realized who each other were, and ended up kicking it off! I love it when fate intervenes :) It had been a long weekend of shooting for me, but these two were a treat and we got into a groove really quick. They are both so photogenic and you can tell they enjoy spending time together, and add to it the beauty stylings of my favorite QueensBees team, so my job was easy. This is a handful more than my usual post, but even still I feel like I had to leave so many favorites out!
Im really starting to think that there is something to this E Harmony business… we have had a handful of couples that have been set up that way and they have been some of my favorites!! Tom and Tracy could be a poster story for them (maybe I should send in some of these images for their PR!), they are a perfect fit. Tom is funny and Tracy has an amazing laugh- a great combo- and they both are so sweet and thoughtful towards each other. Tracy is someone who you can hear smiling ear to ear even over the phone and she was so enthusiastic about her wedding and her shoot- it was contagious! We did this shoot in Montecito a week before their wedding, so check back soon for that!
