If you’re familiar with my work, you’ll know that I’m definately a color girl.  I dream in color (and read!).   At the end of Jasleen & Ken’s shoot, I asked if they would like their last roll to be black & white.  Ken has actually followed my work and knows everything I do, so though he fell in love with my color stuff, I’m glad he went for the change.  I really love how timeless these photos came out.  Most of their photos were in color, but today, I’m sharing with you just the black and whites… change things up here a bit.

I love this last image:

Happy Monday!!

It’s my birthday today, so I gave myself the day off… after this blog post!  I wanted to post something really fun today!  Janet and Jack are a super cute couple.  Janet lives in HK and was in town visiting, so we took the opportunity to schedule in their engagement session!  They wanted something fun & casual, so they came with lots of pink bubbles!!  8 little pink balloons, 2 large pink balloons, & soap bubbles!  While we were planning, Janet mentioned she wanted to bring extra balloons just in case we accidentally popped them or lost them, which I thought was so awesome of her.

LOVE all the birdies!

Minutes into the shoot, we lost a little balloon.  oops!  I feel bad that it’s in the environment now, but that was totally not our intention!  slippery hands.

After this shot, I wanted to do some shots with just the big balloons.  We tied the little balloons to my camera bag and while we were walking, I suddenly look up and realized the balloons had come undone.  So now we’re down to 2 balloons left…

I love watching couples laugh together… In fact, they were having so much fun and so into each other that they didn’t even notice right away when another balloon had escaped!

And then there was one…  kinda symbolic though, right?  how they are becoming one?

And you know how much I love my blurry couple shots!

Congrats you two on a beautiful engagement!!  I’m so excited for your wedding at the Langham next year!

Okay, so now I offically begin my day off!  Happy hump day!

Angela is a city girl, while Kim is a surfer.  Naturally, Angela wanted to do their engagement session at a trendy hotel, while Kim wanted to go to the beach.  Unable to find a location that would suit both styles, we decided to start at the very trendy Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica and then skip down to the beach.  It was really cute to see each of them in their element AND out of their element.

I couldn’t even tell that Kim was out of his element (in a suit and off a beach) because Angela supported him so well.  They felt comfort in each other’s company.

Angela loves the city and Kim loves the ocean, so it was perfect when we found these books laying around.

Then we headed down to the beach.  Angela was afraid of the water and didn’t dig the sand so much, but Kim guided her through it and we ended up having a really fun session on the beach!

And I love this one of them walking through the sand.  The texture in the sand is so pretty!

And we totally lucked out and got gorgeous sky!!

Congrats you two!!  I’m looking forward to your 2 day celebration!

This was such a sweet session.  Sweet couple.  Sweet setting.  I am so at peace when I look at this series.  It was seriously hard to narrow down the photos for this post!!

This session really just left me speechless.  I just feel so lucky to be able to do this for a living and capturing these wonderful stories & memories for couples.

Up!  Regina & Danny are planning their wedding in 4 months!  Amazing!  What that also meant was that we had to quickly do their engagement session because their wedding is in mid-June!  Great thing they already knew the location they wanted to shoot at, so stylizing this shoot was very smooth.  I love the red theme we did throughout with the washed out backdrop!  It was surprisingly really overcast, so I played up the weather’s tones.

We started with 6 balloons.  One popped as we walked from our cars.  We got one shot with the 5 balloons, and as we walked, we hit another tree and 3 more popped.  And then we were down to 2.  lol.  It ended up being cute with 2.

Regina’s fabulous hair & makeup was done by none other than the amazing Kelly Zhang.

This beach was SO SO beautiful!  It totally reminded me of our honeymoon in Hawaii!

Thanks Regina & Danny for a wonderful shoot!  Can’t wait for your wedding in 2 weeks!!!

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