Category Archives: Engagements

Lauren and Brandon are the cutest couple,  Lauren is a fashion stylist with a degree from FIDM in LA who is currently the fashion stylist for Urban Outfitters here in San Diego. Brandon is her fun boyfriend, we didn’t go into what he did, she said his job was to look good. So we just went with that.  When we got together with Lauren she had mentioned that she wanted to flex her styling wings, and we mentioned that we wanted to shoot in the wildflowers while they were still here.  So we put our minds together and came up with an idea for a vintage styled date in the wildflowers.  Now, with us only having a few of the things we needed to accomplish this, we turned to our dear friend Erin at Erin Hall Events to give us a hand making our vintage dreams a reality.  She is amazing with her current and growing stock of wonderful vintage pieces and her go to attitude to make whatever we dont have, we went to work designing the shoot.  When we finally narrowed down the ideas we cam up with a few fun elements.  A Vintage tandem bicycle, (Which we found out later they were unable to actually ride) A really cool old Polaroid that we would incorporate, a picknick on a blanket with old time sodas and some delicious mini cup cakes from Cups in La Jolla, a homemade kite and a few other amazing embellishments. Once we had all that we locked down the location and went to work on it.   Shoot day was amazing and as you can see, we had nothing but fun.

Erin hand made this super cute kite for Lauren and Branden to have fun with. Love it!

mmmmm…. Cups!

Brett and I have been wanting to do an engagement shoot on a sail boat for a while now so it was just fate that Amanda and Justin got ahold of us because they were envisioning a boat in their photo shoot.  At first we toyed with the idea of just shooting on the pier and having sail boats going by in the background but then the stars aligned and we found Sailing to Recovery, a non profit organization  run by Captain Matt, and he hopes to soon join the Search for One organization in the South Pacific.  He takes passengers out on his beautiful sail boat almost every weekend with the goal of raising enough money to sail the boat to remote places and offer much needed medical services to families that other wise could not afford them.  It is an amazing cause that Matt and his father are trying to be a part of and he was more than happy to take all of us out for an afternoon on the San Diego Harbor.  Seing down town San Diego from a boat was absolutely amazing and it sure doesn’t make for a bad photo shoot either.  A big thanks to Capt. Matt, and Amanda n’ Justin for making this fabulous day happen!  We are also looking forward to joining Matt one of these days for his intro to sailing class, check out  Sailing to Recovery to join in on his sun set cruise and sailing outings.

Amanda and Justin are so adorable.  They met in Hawaii while  Justin was stationed in Honolulu.   Amanda was out on vacation to visit her cousin, she met Justin, hit it off and stayed in touch.  After a relentless amount of back and forth communication Amanda went back out to Hawaii and never looked back.  These two Love Birds are in San Diego for a couple years but are hoping to move back  to where they first met in Hawaii.   Right now they are putting the finishing touches on their wedding that will take place in the fall in Michigan.  But since they now live in Beautiful San Diego they wanted to have some pictures that really showed that they were here.  So we decided nothing was more recognizable than the Crystal pier in Pacific beach and the Coronado bridge from the water.  Part one of our fun afternoon together was at the pier.  Enjoy!

These two love birds got ahold of us to shoot their engagement shoot and came back for a rock the dress session.  They got married on the beach in the Dominican Republic but also wanted some fun shots near where they live in Arizona.  Shawna didn’t want anything to happen to her beautiful wedding dress but she still wanted to play around in the grassy fields we found so she opted to bring a more casual fun dress she didn’t have to worry about.  Thanks Guys, we had a great day, and you two looked fantastic!