Caroline Tran Photographer – Los Angeles Wedding Photography

You may remember Desiree and Steve from their engagement session in the Hollywood hills.  I dormed with Desiree during our first year in college.  I always admired how smart, beautiful, and likable she is.  The thing I envied the most about her though was that she studied abroad the following year.  I loved meeting up with her after she returned to hear about her adventures.   A few years down the line, one of her study abroad friends threw a party and invited Desiree.  Desiree attended and that’s where she met Steve.  It was instant chemistry!  At our initial consultation meeting, that’s when I learned that Steve is actually really good friends with one of my best friends from high school.  This wedding was one of the most fun weddings for me personally because I was able  to reunite with my college dorm-mates & high school buddies.  I love what a small world this is.

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Desiree is really such a beautiful person inside and out, and she is really lucky to have found Steve.  They are so good together.  We started the day in Pasadena.

Jonathan stylized the shot above.  Cute, huh?  I love what he did with the curtains.  Below was my original stylizing.  I just LOVE LOVE LOVE Desiree’s dress!  The little swiss polka-dots, the lace, the fluffiness… It’s just so romantic AND cute at the same time!  Her dress is by Pronovias.

And I just LOVE LOVE LOVE her blue shoes!!  I love the puffy flower at the front!  Her gorgeous shoes are by Moschino.

Isn’t she just so gorgeous?  I love how her look is so simple, but yet so romantic and stunningly beautiful.  Her colors are that dark blue and peach, which I think goes so beautiful together.  I just really love that diptych above because it’s so peachy, which I feels represents Desiree so well.

So where does Desiree get her wonderful sense of style from?  And her great taste in shoes?  Well, none other than her grandma!  Check out how adorable her grandma is!  I love Grandma’s lace dress and red shoes.

That little flower girl looks like a little doll!  so cute!  And I love their programs!  Check out their cute kid pics!

I love that picture of them above enjoying some alone time during the cocktail hour.

This was the Yoo-Sayther wedding, so as favors, they gave out Yoo-Hoo’s and Sather’s candy.  Get it? 

And of course a photo of Yoo with the Yoo-Hoo and Sayther with the Sather Peach Rings.

And here’s a shot of a bunch of my freshman dorm-mates!

Clothes pins work FANTASTIC for the money dance!  So if you’re planning to have a money dance, skip the straight pins, saftey pins, etc.  The clothes pins were efficient and effective!

Everything about this wedding was just so perfect for Desiree and Steve, from the location to the colors.  Congrats on a beautiful day you two!!!

I think I’ve done as much traveling these past 2 months as I’ve done in my entire life!  My parents have always worked 6 days a week (easily 10 hr days), so we never had any family vacations.  Occasionally, my aunt would take me along with her family to big bear, and once to San Francisco, but that was it.  I feel so blessed and still wake up every morning pinching myself.  Even as recent as 2 years ago, I never would’ve thought this was possible.  I’ll share more of that later.  With that said, I will be heading out of town tomorrow (for pleasure this time!) and will be back Sunday night.  I’ll respond to emails next week.

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Singapore day 2 involved a lot of walking and a lot of eating!  We started the morning off in Little India.

This is our attempt at a self portrait…

Singapore has a lot of shop homes, where they run stores at the bottom and live upstairs.  It’s interesting how they’re all built exactly the same.  They’re trying to revitalize some of the areas and give it new paint jobs.  One thing that stuck out to me in Singapore is all the interesting colors they like to paint their buildings with….

There were lots of Hindu temples, Buddhist temples, and mosques.  As we walked by the above temple, I noticed all these lovely flowers that street vendors were selling.  I had never seen them before.  The lady told me they’re lotus flowers.  My dad said that in Vietnam, they also fold the petals like that.

The highlight of day 2 was meeting up with Jasmin.  When we booked our trip, we only intended to go to Indonesia.  We debated whether we should visit another country on the way, and if so, which one.  Around the same time, I got a client inquiry from Jasmin.  They live in Singapore, but wanted to do an “engagement session” in LA.  I told her we may be able to meet up in Singapore and she wrote back this detailed email breaking down all the places to see.  She basically came up with a 3 day itinerary for us.   So she met us up on day 2 and took was on a walking tour of practically the whole city!

I chatted with Jasmin the rest of the day, so most of the following photos were taken by Jonathan.  Above is all different kinds of dried shrimp.

The Raffles Hotel is where the Singapore Sling was first created.  It’s kind of like a cosmo?  I didn’t like it, but I don’t like syrupy cocktails.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the names of most of these places anymore.  Jasmin showed us SO many things!

A true ice cream sandwich!!

Left is the Singapore Opera House, aka The Durian.  Right is me spitting because my mint & chip ice cream taste like durian.  I think because the ice cream cart stores all of it’s ice cream together, the durian taste seeped into my mint chip ice cream.  not a good mix.  …and the “spit” is actually a statue/fountain of the Singapore mascot.

What I miss most about Singapore is the food, especially these refreshing desserts!  I was really craving one today since it was 104 degrees in LA!

Left is Chendo.  Shaved ice with brown sugar and some other stuff I don’t know/remember.  Right is shaved ice with aloe vera and other stuff I also don’t remember.  I love those little limes though!  The flavor is so refreshing on the shaved ice.

Then for dinner, we met up with Jasmin’s husband at a Hawker center.  The seafood in Singapore is phenomenal!

Left:  Chicken wings.  The flavor is so good!

Right:  Satay skewers.  Yum!!

Above:  Stingray!

And this last dish is our favorite dish from Singapore so far.  Salt Steamed Crab.  Booth #24, I think.

Thank you Jasmin for such a great tour!!  I look forward to seeing you two in 3 weeks!!!