engagement: andrew & julie

Julie and Andrew are having a quick engagement with their wedding taking place this November. They met at church, and after getting to know each other over the course of a year, Andrew popped the big question. He made sure Julie's daughter Ambria was in on the whole proposal, and they even wanted to include her in their engagement session. So sweet! We spent the day at the beach in Belmont Shores in Long Beach, California playing with wind, jumping, holi powder, and getting wet in the ocean. Such a fun shoot.

engagement: amber & connie

We had so much fun with Connie and Amber during their engagement shoot. We met up at Irvine Regional Park in Orange, California (one of our favorite "rustic" spots to shoot). What started off as a nice, pretty shoot, turned into a rousing good time with colorful holi powder. Marni had a little too much fun squirting the powder at the girls while they smiled and laughed their way through it.

1 year anniversary: ariel & brandon

We have had the pleasure of knowing Ariel and Brandon for a couple of years now. We met when they hired us the shoot their wedding. We then went to Temecula for the weekend to do their engagement photos and quickly became good friends (a few glasses of wine will do that, won't they?!). Then came time for their big day, which was now one year ago. To celebrate their one year anniversary, we did a shoot in Pasadena, California, where Ariel grew up and where the couple now lives. We started at Arlington Gardens with a picnic set-up, went to Ariel's old neighborhood and took some photos in front of a Frank Lloyd Wright house and on her old tree-lined street, moved on to a super-cool alley on the outskirts of Old Town, and finished at Arroyo Seco with some awesome action shots with holi powder. It was messy. It was fun. It was photographic gold.