Melissa McClure Blog

On Sunday, an amazing group of photographers from OSP met up in Laguna Beach with about 11 brides and a handful of grooms. We splished, splashed and all around trashed their wedding attire!

This is the couple I spent the most time with, Clara and Todd:

The OC Register came and did a story on the gathering, which you can read here. I’m quoted, and you can spot me in the video. My couple was featured quite a bit in the video as well. But they are on their Honeymoon, so they haven’t seen it yet!!

Apparantly my photo was in the newspaper yesterday, but I have yet to see it!

I will be posting my shots from the day very very soon, along with 3 weddings! Whew, all that and I’m moving today.

XOXO

-M

This past Thursday I met up with my friend Michelle to do some promotional shots for her upcoming American Idol audition! The audition is tomorrow, and she has an amazing voice!

Good luck with the audition Michelle!

Kerianne is a good friend of mine from Peoria, but she lives in Hollywood now. You may remember her from a previous shoot at the winery. Her son Austin was in town this week visiting, and we met up in San Clemente for a shoot!

Kerianne owns her own marketing company. She is amazing, does anything she puts her mind to!

Kerianne’s business partner, John, also came along for some headshots:

Austin was all for jumping over his mom!

Rachel and Matt were married on Saturday July 7th, the busiest wedding day in history! You may recognize them from their engagement session at Hotel Del.

They have a beautiful son named Kaeden. He was such a trooper! He even stayed up way past 10:00! They were married at Sycuan Resort, just down the road from the casino.

When I showed up, everyone was getting ready in the same room, and Matt even peeked in when Rachel was putting on her dress. It made the whole day much more relaxed.

Kaeden is so photogenic!Sometimes the best shots just happen

Beautiful family!

Matt and his crew:

Rachel and her entourage:

The kiss:

Gotta love self portraits!
And my personal favorite thing ever, a photobooth!

Thanks Rachel and Matt for letting me spend your special day with you! Please click here for your slideshow!

Today I met up with a cool group of local wedding and portrait photographers. We all gathered at Wilson Creek Winery to chat, shoot and drink some wine!

Th gorgeous couple:

Jeanette Sanchez:

Janelle Dill:
Kelly and Ryan:
Ryan, Kel and me:

Thanks for coming everyone! There were about a dozen total people that showed up!

Next up – blogging my other 7-7 wedding!

-M

Elizabeth and Nathan were married in front of a group of their closest friends and family just north of Seaport Village.

It was a beautifuk intimate ceremony, very casual, just the way I like it! I shot Elizabeth’s sisters wedding this past April and was honored that they wanted me to capture a second wedding in their family!

I had already booked an evening wedding for 7-7-07 but fortunatley this wedding was only scheduled to be 2 hours long in the morning! Lots of Nathan’s family traveled from Utah for the event.

The ceremony took place on the lawn of the Embarcadero Marina Park and the reception breakfast at Buster’s.

Thank you to the families for involving me in this important day and treating me like a friend!

Enjoying the sit down breakfast:

Yummy cake! This big swirls are chunks of white chocolate!

They were good to each other!

Amalia and her dad before the ceremony

I liked this shot of Amalia getting her photo taken by Jen, and Brett just hanging out.

Gettin their groove on!

This was a post card they got for a gift. They said it was about 20 years old!
This is Amalia’s sister goint after the boquet!

Whew its been a busy couple of days!

I picked her up at a friends house in LA on Friday afternoon. We drove down south and made out first stop at Balboa Park. I told her she needed a new headshot for her blog, so she got to be my model!

From there, we walked over to the San Diego Zoo and hung out for a few hours. This is us on the Skyfari, such a beautiful view!

One exhibit I had never seen was the Pandas. They looked like fake robots! You can get pretty close to them, although its hard to tell with a fish eye lens!

After the Zoo, we drove over to Seaport Village. The view of Coronado is really nice and we even enjoyed some Ben and Jerry’s! Gotta validate your parking somehow!

We headed back up to North County and stopped in La Jolla to take a look at the Cove at night. Marisa really fell in love with California and its scenery. This girl has some serious wanderlust!

We called it a night after a quick bite and a beer at Lampost Pizza by my house. I had to be up early for a 7-7 wedding the next morning, which happened to be at Seaport Village!

I was gone pretty much all of Saturday so Marisa saw an aquaintance from Wash U. She was asleep by the time I got home from my second wedding.

This morning I drove her down to San Ysidro (American side of the Baja border) where she met up with another woman going with the same program.

I’m so proud of the person Marisa has become, she is smart, strong and is following her heart. She is an inspiration to me and I know that she will be very successful in the future!

Good luck over the next year, Maris, I’ll be faithfully following your adventure through your blog!