Orange County Trash the Dress Get Together (post 1 of 2)

On Sunday, an amazing group of photographers from OSP met up in Laguna Beach with about 11 brides and a handful of grooms. We splished, splashed and all around trashed their wedding attire!

This is the couple I spent the most time with, Clara and Todd:

The OC Register came and did a story on the gathering, which you can read here. I'm quoted, and you can spot me in the video. My couple was featured quite a bit in the video as well. But they are on their Honeymoon, so they haven't seen it yet!!

Apparantly my photo was in the newspaper yesterday, but I have yet to see it!

I will be posting my shots from the day very very soon, along with 3 weddings! Whew, all that and I'm moving today.

XOXO

-M

Michelle's headshots

This past Thursday I met up with my friend Michelle to do some promotional shots for her upcoming American Idol audition! The audition is tomorrow, and she has an amazing voice!

Good luck with the audition Michelle!

Kerianne and Austin

Kerianne is a good friend of mine from Peoria, but she lives in Hollywood now. You may remember her from a previous shoot at the winery. Her son Austin was in town this week visiting, and we met up in San Clemente for a shoot!

Kerianne owns her own marketing company. She is amazing, does anything she puts her mind to!

Kerianne's business partner, John, also came along for some headshots:

Austin was all for jumping over his mom!

Rachel + Matt - 7-7-07

Rachel and Matt were married on Saturday July 7th, the busiest wedding day in history! You may recognize them from their engagement session at Hotel Del.

They have a beautiful son named Kaeden. He was such a trooper! He even stayed up way past 10:00! :) They were married at Sycuan Resort, just down the road from the casino.

When I showed up, everyone was getting ready in the same room, and Matt even peeked in when Rachel was putting on her dress. It made the whole day much more relaxed.

Kaeden is so photogenic!Sometimes the best shots just happen

Beautiful family!

Matt and his crew:

Rachel and her entourage:

The kiss:

Gotta love self portraits!
And my personal favorite thing ever, a photobooth!

Thanks Rachel and Matt for letting me spend your special day with you! Please click here for your slideshow!

Photog are fun to be around!

Today I met up with a cool group of local wedding and portrait photographers. We all gathered at Wilson Creek Winery to chat, shoot and drink some wine!

We even had a nice couple come model for us!

The set up before everyone arrived:

Th gorgeous couple:

Jeanette Sanchez:

Janelle Dill:
Kelly and Ryan:
Ryan, Kel and me:

Thanks for coming everyone! There were about a dozen total people that showed up!

Next up - blogging my other 7-7 wedding!

-M

Kiss :-* Albums

I just recieved my latest flush mount album today from Kiss Wedding Books. I couldn't be happier with the quality and the customer service! I felt like a little kid on Christmas ripping open the well packaged box! And of course the album cover is in green, my favorite color!

Pros: Fast turn around time (fastest in the business, I think!), A++ customer service, no gutter (my #1 priority in albums), quality product!

Cons: Can't think of any!

Thanks Kevin, Phylicia and everyone else at Kiss! :-*

Elizabeth + Nathan

Elizabeth and Nathan were married in front of a group of their closest friends and family just north of Seaport Village.

It was a beautifuk intimate ceremony, very casual, just the way I like it! I shot Elizabeth's sisters wedding this past April and was honored that they wanted me to capture a second wedding in their family!

I had already booked an evening wedding for 7-7-07 but fortunatley this wedding was only scheduled to be 2 hours long in the morning! Lots of Nathan's family traveled from Utah for the event.

The ceremony took place on the lawn of the Embarcadero Marina Park and the reception breakfast at Buster's.

Thank you to the families for involving me in this important day and treating me like a friend!

Elizabeth getting ready before the ceremony:

Taking their vows:

The kiss! (It was a good one!)

Enjoying the sit down breakfast:

Yummy cake! This big swirls are chunks of white chocolate!

They were good to each other! :)