When the day arrived for D & M’s Carlsbad Flower Fields summer wedding, we knew not to expect the vibrant blooms in the month of June but what we didn’t expect was the most glorious cloudy day. The overcast skies brought a richness to the colors and light. D and M are high school sweethearts […]

What a joyful experience this summer Lake Arrowhead engagement was! At the time of this engagement session, I was going on a decade of being in business and twelve years photographing weddings. You’d think that all of this would have lost its shine but if anything I’ve only fallen deeper in love with what I […]

This Mission Inn Summer Elopement holds a special place in my heart. M and J were booked pre-pandemic for the big wedding in Oak Glen. Several postponements and a pivot later brought us to this day…but we’ll circle back to that. M and J met through friends. When J walked into the house, M’s jaw […]

Every so often I leave an session thinking that magic happened and this San Clemente Pier winter engagement is one of those. Our plans to meet up at sunset were thwarted by a giant dark cloud creeping along the horizon until it overtook the sun. And as always, everything always works out so perfectly when […]

E & E’s sister reached out to me from Canada for this Redlands spring engagement under the guise of it being a graduation session. But there was so much more meaning behind this session. Graduating medical school was a big accomplishment that needed celebrating but was overshadowed with a cancer diagnosis. With all of this […]

This sweet little Grand Tradition Estate Arbor Terrace wedding is quite the treat. Grand Tradition Estate and Gardens is a sprawling thirty acre property with several locations for wedding ceremonies and receptions. The Arbor Terrace lives up to its name with lush trees and several waterfalls as you walk up the path to the ceremony […]

After years and years of telling me I’d be her wedding photographer, C & H finally had their Europa Village Wineries summer wedding. Europa Village Wineries has a variety of options for both ceremonies and receptions that embrace the romance of Europe. C & H were married in the the Vienza Cave with a romantic […]

In every way possibly this San Clemente Casa Romantica wedding joyfully bright and colorful. Casa Romantica was initially a home built by the founder of San Clemente built as his representation of the California dream in 1927. He even patterned the development of the rest of the city after this property! Typically the wedding ceremony […]

This year has been a treat with delicious historical venues and this Carondelet House summer wedding was such a treat. This historic building is tucked away on a bustling LA street with only the brick front hinting at the beauty hiding behind those stunning doors. Curious as always about the history, my second and I […]

The vibes of S & J’s Villa Del Sol Summer wedding were downright perfection. Is it still in to say vibes? Well I’ve never been one to know what’s in or not but I do know fun, funky perfection with a touch of historic California style. Plus I’m wildly obsessed with how adorable and weird […]