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Well hello there! This week is a big, amazing, CRAZY, week- and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Friday I will be featured on Style Me Pretty, which is always wonderful…and to top that two of my close friends are tying the knot! I had the option to just be a guest, but I mean…come on…a guest? No. I am a photographer, this is what I do. So, after some 5 seconds of deciding, it was final- I am shooting the wedding of the beautiful couple known as Dani and Austin! I cannot wait. Since they are such close friends of mine I helped them pick vendors, so I am working with all of my favorites! I cannot wait to share photos from this couple’s special day, it is going to be perfect. Dani and Austin were high school sweethearts, hence the locker photos- and since then have evolved into a sweet family of three with the cutest fur baby- WILLOW! We love Willow (“we” meaning the population of the world, you included). All I can say is that I am rediculously blessed to witness people like this on a daily basis, love is such an amazing gift. Dogs are also an amazing gift, just saying! I hope you enjoy these, and the rest of your week!

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Hi friends! I hope y’all are having a great week, half way over- then….Labor Day! I don’t have any weddings this weekend, and let me just say..I am kind of excited to not shoot at all! Then its back into full blown wedding season, I am not complaining though- I love my job! You know what else I love? Well, they are more of a “who” than a “what”…my family. My cousin Richie and his wife Liz are two are the most incredible people I know- and yes, they have the two sweetest babies in the world…I mean it, its a fact. Van and Kai are 6 months apart- weird, right? Not weird! Van was adopted as a newborn and a few months before that Liz became pregnant, I hear that this is more common than you think. I am fully reaping the benefits of being a cousin/photographer- I am in love with these boys! I hope you find these photos as sweet and heart warming as I do, and I hope that you realize that my cousins are the epitome of “cool”- I mean, Richie’s hair, COME ON!

Enjoy!

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Hello! It’s almost the weekend, which has me VERY excited! You will never guess, tomorrow I am a guest at a wedding! This is the first time in 9 years that I will attend a wedding with no camera- AH! I don’t know if I am super excited, or if I even know how to be a guest in the first place…I guess we will find out tomorrow. Speaking of weddings- I am finally getting around to blogging Tarin and Warwick’s wedding in La Quinta! You remember them, right? Here is their engagement session in Malubi. They may look like SoCal natives but they are far from it! This lovely couple lives in Canada! Their wedding at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells was absolutely stunning. Of course it was perfectly put together by the amazing Kristeen LaBrot - she is the best!

I hope you enjoy their wedding photos- so many more to come soon! Wedding season is in full swing! Happy almost Friday!

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If you know me, you might not know how big of a softy I am- or I have become at least..the wedding industry has softened my heart and made me a big cry baby. Speaking of babies, and Amanda being a softy- meet Haven, she has such an incredible story and is such a sweet sweet blessing to her wonderful parents! I won’t go beyond saying that for now. I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do- this is the sweetest little family! and the prettiest light… enjoy!

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