I’m really excited to share with you this LA chic wedding.  This wedding can also be seen as a real wedding on Junebug weddings and featured on What Junebug Loves!  That opening image really says a lot about Sarah & Raymond’s wedding – glam, elegant, and with a pop of rock n roll.

Their wedding took place in the middle of downtown LA.  Sarah had the perfect  Monique Lhuillier dress.

The amazing flowers were created by the very talented Euri & Kendra of Fleuretica. I LOVE the deep red peonies and garden roses!

I also love this photo Jonathan got of the guys getting ready:

Can you feel the anticipation of Sarah waiting for her day to start:

Again, that gorgeous bouquet of red peonies!  And their invites, which was designed by Sarah’s cousin (who’s still in high school!) and printed in Indonesia, where Sarah’s entire family resides:

The black and white, with pops of red is just so classic and elegant.  And I couldn’t get over how glamorous Sarah looked.  She was stunning!

This was an especially emotional day for Sarah’s family because they live across the world in Indonesia.  I can only imagine the joy her parents must have felt.

Love this moment:

Sarah’s little nephew cracks me up in this first kiss photo:

Cocktail hour and reception took place under the stars, right in the middle of downtown LA.  It was gorgeous to see all the tall buildings around us.

Favors were JJ Royal Indonesian Civet Coffee… yes, brought all the way from Indonesia, and yes, Civet Coffee!  I’ve been wanting to try Civet Coffee… supposed to be the best & the most expensive coffee!

And I’ve always loved these fingerprint trees as guest sign-in:

Sarah & Raymond totally rocked their first dance.  Raymond is an amazing dancer!  And so is his dad!

Food was delicious.  Decor was gorgeous.  And there was a photobooth by Photobox LA all night.

This is the highlight of my night…  later in the night, Sarah changed into her grandmother’s dress.  This was the same dress her grandmother wore to Sarah’s parent’s wedding, and the same dress her sister wore at her own wedding.  Sarah had the whole crowd crying when she talked about her grandmother in her thank you speech.

And I have a soft spot for moments between father & daughter:

The wedding team included:

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I’ve never seen such puffy clusters of clouds before!

This was taken at the cemetery next to our chateau.

On a side note, I got 2 cool features yesterday:

• In the spirit of the NBA finals, check out this awesome Lakers theme birthday party featured on Hostess with the Mostest blog.  And if you missed it on my blog, I originally blogged it here.
• Lauren & Chad’s engagement session also got featured on Love & Lavender yesterday.

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I was going to wait til next week to post this, but I just found out that Style Me Pretty featured this today!  I’m excited to be part of Popisme’s debut.  Thank you to Style Me Pretty for doing a cover feature on our shoot!  Popisme is a dessert concierge company, designing custom dessert tables for events.  I love how I get to feast with my eyes first before indulging in the sugary goodness.  Their displays are designed to have a 360 degree display to it – no front, no back.  Guests gets to walk into this dessert heaven to indulge.

All of the sweets from this display is by Mendy Pound of Cakes by the Pound.  They not only look amazing, they taste amazing too!  I literally threw a bunch of the lemon meringue in my purse at the end of the shoot.  yum!

I love how all the desserts floated!

The coconut donuts above were also fantastic!

And I also love the whimsical cake!   Everything tasted as heavenly as they look!

White chocolate malted shakes?  Yes, please!

A dessert bar like this is guaranteed to wow your guest and leave them with a great last impression of your event!  Contact Popisme for more info on how to get a fantastic dessert bar like this at your event!

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I came home from NY today with the pleasant surprise that I was featured on Style Me Pretty while I was gone!  NY was amazing!  Such an amazing city!  The crazy part is that we were at time square and didn’t even know there was a car bomb there until we got home and saw it on the news!  So glad nothing blew up!  On to happier matters, let me share this cute bridal shower with you.

Linda from Lumiani Events is usually the one planning events for other people, so it was so great to see her surprised with a party where she was the guest of honor!  The ladies at Lumiani Events did a wonderful job planning and decorating this charming backyard shower for her.

They did all the decor & flowers themselves!

The refreshing drinks were perfectly displayed for this warm backyard party!

And who can resist Sprinkles cupcakes, right?

One of Linda’s favorite cake & bakeries is from Susina.  The cake is amazing!

Each girl who arrived received a ring pop.  If you say “Linda”, you have to forfeit your ring to the person who first called you on it.  Her future sister-in-law was the master at this game:

Another activity was the underwear decorating contest.  Guests decorated throughout the day and hung them up for Linda to judge.

The winner also cracked me up!

I love their hearts theme!

You see those vintage chairs & benches?  The benches were all made by Linda’s fiance for their wedding ceremony.  What a keeper, right?  lol.

Their flower arrangements were so simple, but so very charming!

And I just love their tablescape!

Congrats to Linda & Dat!  Wishing you both a lifetime of happiness!  Linda, hope you have fun with all your new toys from the shower!  *wink wink*

On a random technical note, this was shot mostly on Kodak film… expired in 2007.  The rest is digital.  With one of the cameras we bought, the seller threw in rolls of Kodak film.  I thought I’d try it out for the sake of it.  After using them, I looked and realized that they expired in 2007.   The colors needed a little correcting, but that’s it.

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This was just featured on one of my favorite wedding blogs, Green Wedding Shoes!  I got an email a few months back from a very enthusiastic couple.  Their emails to me seemed like they were singing!  I could tell immediately how cute they are – I mean, how could they not be cute with the names hart & plum, right?  Hart travels worldwide for his job a lot, so we never met until the day of the shoot.  However, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of planning involved!  Plum and I had exchanged emails back and forth with all sorts of idea.  A few ideas down the line, she threw out the idea of a pillow fight, with feathers flying all over.  I started to envision a pillow fight and immediately saw a wrought iron bed in the middle of a flowery field.  Luckily, we’re right in the middle of wild flower season, so they’re everywhere!  The bed in the middle of the field is just so romantic & peaceful to me.

I love how the red in their outfits pop with the yellow.  And I love the all white bed in the yellow field.  The colors could not have worked out any more perfect!

This was an especially inspiring shoot for me because not only was there an amazing concept, great light, and cute couple, but I also changed up my gear to push myself.  Most of you know that I LOVE my 85L and shoot with it 90% of the time.  Well, for this shoot, I didn’t use it at all.  I used my 135L instead, just to change it up.  I also shot part of this session in film.  Can you tell which is film and which is digital?  It’s all mixed in here.

Note, that kissing photo above is the only kissing shot from the entire shoot.  Plum told me that they’re not a kissy couple and didn’t want kissing photos.  I had to beg for that above image.  lol.

Doesn’t laying in this bed just look so heavenly??   And I love that photo of their feet intertwined…

I gave my friend, Dorothy, a sneak peak of this session and was telling her what an amazing experience this was for myself, and she said something that I had totally overlooked.  She said, “Well, it must have been an amazing experience for them too.  It must have felt so nice to lay in the bed, out in the open flower field, and listening to the sound of the ocean.”   When they first jumped in the bed, I did give them some time alone to enjoy it.  I ran off into the distance and took some photos of them enjoying the moment.

I wish it looked like this all year round, but I guess we wouldn’t appreciate it as much, huh?  Scarcity is a powerful thing.

The sun did make a guest appearance at the end of our shoot, which gave us some nice variety.

Can you tell they are a very playful couple?

Pillow fight!!!

I loved that the sun came out for a bit.  I LOVE the next image on the right of Plum:

Us trying to pick up all the feathers after:

Looking at these photos of them pillow fighting in the field, by the ocean, makes me feel like I’m in a dream… or on vacation, at least!

Them sharing the feathers with me:  hehe.

And I love this last image of the single feather on her nose:

Shooting film makes for SUCH an easier work flow!  All the film stuff here is how I got them from Richard Photo Lab.  I did the best I could to match my digital to the film, but it’s A LOT of work to do so!

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