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This is where you'll find the most recent weddings, venue recommendations, helpful advice to plan your own wedding or elopement, and even my favorite non-traditional trends that I've seen.
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A Place for Inspiration & Ideas
This is where you'll find the most recent weddings, venue recommendations, helpful advice to plan your own wedding or elopement, and even my favorite non-traditional trends that I've seen.
It has it all!
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I loved, loved, loved this Newport Beach Balboa Inn spring wedding with Daniel and Mallory! This rainy day Newport Beach, California wedding required a few modifications due to weather. I drove out the day before to meet Mallory and Daniel at their rehearsal and scout out the venue. Immediately I loved how sweet they were […]
We know Amanda and Byron as Mandi and Todd from their rainy engagement session and their Riverside Loft 84 fall wedding was just as incredible. Mandi’s romantic, gothic style was evident in every single aspect of the day. Her stunning dress and veil were custom made for her by her grandmother. Bat broaches adorned her […]
A fun summer engagement in Forest Falls! We actually met at another wedding in Temecula, California where she was the hairstylist and with her spiciness and hilarious sense of humor, we hit it off immediately. Tammy is the genius who tames my wild, Irish gypsy hair and I’ve been going to her ever since so she […]
Kassey and Josh are the cutest and we had such a beautiful Angelus Oaks fall engagement. I didn’t think we’d see too many beautiful fall colors but I was pleased to find myself proven wrong. Kassey found me through her sister. That turned into a funny story as another former client referred me to Josh. […]
For this sweet Big Bear summer engagement I scouted out a location where I knew we could have a little adventure. The day of the session arrived and I finally got to meet Jessica and Zach in person! Zach’s in was bantering back and forth the Gaston lyrics with Jessica. “No one’s slick as […]
What a fun winter Forest Falls engagement! When a mountain bride meets her future husband on a mountain and they find a mountain girl photographer…we go to the mountains for the engagement session! Kaylee found me through her mom, Tracey. Since Tracey had met me before and knew my work (and work ethic), she enthusiastically […]
This San Diego Balboa Park proposal! AHHHHHHHH! I can’t imagine a better way to end an incredible year! I’ve known Taelor for six years and she always told me that one day I’d photograph her wedding. Taelor is one of those girls that just has a naturally sweet and trusting heart. My prayer for her had […]
Brandi and Josh and their Downtown Riverside summer engagement! Okay, so the story here is kind of awesome. Josh is from Moreno Valley but was currently living on the east coast. Brandi is living up in Oregon and that is where the two of them met (and strangely enough where I had been photographing a […]
Amy and Noah’s Edwards Mansion Redlands wedding! I met these two and their epic dance moves at a Dana Point wedding a few years earlier. I gave them a business card and we kept in contact as they started planning their own wedding. One of their trips to Redlands we met up at the venue. […]
Let’s be real here…you NEED wedding day family photo tips. Think about it, your family wants to see all the guests. There might be an open bar. Heck they might have already been drinking. They wander away to socialize and sometimes getting them all back on track is like herding cats. Mom runs off to make sure everything is set […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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If you’re anything like me, well your mountain loving heart is going to skip a beat with this Idyllwild spring mountaintop wedding! Tony and Bri’s original wedding plans had to be reimagined and they decided to go with a plan true to who they were! Bri met Tony a decade earlier when she was visiting […]
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A winter elopement at Arrowhead Pine Rose Cabins?!?! Eloping in the mountains? This epic couple eloping at one of the most magical venues??? It really can’t get any better than this! Okay okay…let’s get into the good stuff now. First things first. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the wedding whisky (Scottish whisky has no […]
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This Dana Point Elopement is something truly special. Jessica’s cousin, Adrienne, is a high school friend of mine and I met Jessica when I was up in Seattle photographing sessions several years ago. When they pulled together their elopement, she assumed I wasn’t available until her cousin reached out to me. Since I was fully […]
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After several reschedules, Luke and Irina opted for this elegant Corona mansion elopement. They found this mansion on Airbnb or Vrbo and their immediate family flew in to help make their day perfect. Curious about their new wedding venue, they did some research on the property and found out it was once owned by former […]
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The original plan for this this glorious spring botanical garden wedding at the Claremont California Botanic Garden was a Christmas wedding at the beautiful Mitten Building in Redlands. As plans often do, things changed and Annie and Paul were walking in one of their favorite places when they saw a bride and groom. One thing […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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We’re back again with these two cuties and their Downtown Fullerton sunrise engagement! Fueled by the massive iced coffee I inhaled on my pre-dawn drive, I met up with Scarlett and Joshua in a dark parking lot not far from the historic Villa Del Sol where they would be getting married later in the year. […]
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To say this was a Downtown Redlands sunrise Engagement is a rather limiting how amazing this all was and how many iconic spots we hit downtown. Jeremy and Hayley flew in from New York and woke up before dawn (looking this good I might add) to drive to Redlands. I awaited in a dark parking […]
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The typical June gloom lingered the entire day making our long and adventurous hike for this Oak Glen engagement in wildwood canyon nice and cool. The most amazing thing about these trails is that many people take their horses around the area and there’s tons of wildlife as well like deer and bobcats (from a […]
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We’re back with some of my favorites of the best wedding venues in Oak Glen! Oak Glen is know for their apple season and the best “mile high” apple pie. I’m sure many of you know that it’s also an incredibly popular spot to say I do! Prepare to be blown away by some of […]
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As a wedding photographer who does mostly mountain weddings (and someone who grew up in the area), I’ve put together the four best wedding venues in the Lake Arrowhead area (or at least my favorites so far!) Mountain weddings are what make my heart sing and they’re becoming more and more of a popular choice […]
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I’m back with the best Lake Arrowhead venues for intimate weddings! Do you want a mountain wedding but don’t want it to be a big affair? A lot of the venues in Lake Arrowhead are geared towards having a big party surrounded by the beauty of the forest. But never fear! I have a few […]
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Alrighty my friends I’m going to bring up some tips for your wedding day in this wedding guide. Before you dig in, don’t let these wedding tips stress you out! This wedding day guide is entirely meant to help make your wedding less stressful! Some won’t apply at all and and some you won’t like. […]
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All things elopements, adventure elopements, courthouse weddings, minimonies, micro weddings, and intimate weddings So you want to know how to elope or have an intimate wedding? Elopements, minimonies, micro weddings, and intimate weddings have become a topic that many couples are now entertaining after Covid-19 has rescheduled their big weddings. This is a subject near […]
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Before we talk about if you should have a first look, let me explain what it is. Basically it’s summed up as having a private moment to see each other before the ceremony. This purpose of this post is not to sway you either way about whether you should have a first look or not. […]
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