Weddings Archive

Mike and Heidi – NTC Liberty Station Marriott Wedding

Last Sunday was a beautiful day to get married!  Heidi and Mike were in great moods, the skies were blue, everything ran smooth!

Location: NTC Marriott

Coordinators: Rebecca and Mia from Red Letter Days

Entertainment: DJ Pat from Sound Prodigy

Flowers: Christina with Fancy That Flowers and Favors

Photobooth: Photoworks Interactive

Cake: Sumi’s Oven

Details: DIY by Heidi and Mike

Makeup: Christine Castro

Hair: Danielle Djay

 

 

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Heidi and her entourage

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I love these custom made cuff links all the guys got!

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I’m in love with their homemade arch!

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My favorite flowers 🙂

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Mike hand made these scrabble letters to go with their square/scrabble theme!!

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Most amazing first dance ever – The Tango!!

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Heidi and Mike, you two are so fun!  Your personalities really showed through in this wedding!

XOXO, M

 

ps Shout out to Mandi and Aaron for shooting with me!! Love you two!

 

Enjoy your slideshow!

Katherine and Anthony – NTC Chapel and Baci Restaurant

As I started posting this blog, I noticed that I am *this close* to my 2,000th comment!!  I won’t say exactly how close, but VERY close!  My lucky 2000th commenter will get a $10 iTunes gift card from moi!!

UPDATE: Okay, I was sneaky…I had 1999 comments when I posted this blog, so Bethany was the first to comment! Congrats to her!

 

Katherine and Anthony were married on May 9th at the NTC Chapel.  It was an extremely intimate ceremony, just immediate family, most of which stood on the altar with the happy couple!

The beautiful bride, minutes before the ceremony:

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The handsome Anthony, ready to get married!

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It was held in the smaller side chapel at NTC

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My favorite image of the day 🙂

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After some photos, the family chatted a bit, and Katherine tossed her bouquet to the kids!

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And they had fun catching it!

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After, everyone headed to Baci Ristorante for some dinner

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and cake!

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A nice toast was given by Anthony’s brother

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Thank you for choosing me to capture your very special and intimate day!  Hope married life is treating you well!

xoxo, M

Andrew and Janice – MGM Las Vegas Wedding

I love shooting in new locations.  I love shooting in new locations that are located outside of So Cal even more!  When Janice and Andrew decided to switch their venue and date to Las Vegas in May, they told me I was coming with and I couldn’t have been more ecstatic!   These two started as clients but have grown in to friends.  They are awesome and I wish them the best of luck in their marriage (even though they didn’t bring me to Jamaica on their honeymoon with them!  just kidding!)  

Here is a glimpse from their wedding this past Sunday!

The day started at the MGM Grand with some details

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When I came in, Maid of Honor Michelle was writing out her toast

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Janice was so calm the entire time…nothing like the Bridezilla she claimed to be!

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GORGEOUS!

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Cutest flower girls 😉

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MGM does not allow outside photographers to shoot wedding there, you have to use their staff.  So I turned in to a “guest” at that point, and had a great angle!

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We didn’t take a ton of portraits on Sunday…we saved our energy for their awesome Trash the Dress session the following day (blog coming soon)!

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Handsome Andrew

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Here is the guest book that I made for them, everyone loved it!

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They are so sweet together, you can tell by their first dance

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Time to party!

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Love the city lights!

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Stay tuned for Part two of this blog, the day after!

Enjoy your slideshow! 

Kelly and Ryan – Bernardo Winery and Rancho Bernardo Inn

Kelly is a very good friend that I have had since High School.  I’ve known Ryan for a couple of years now and I adore them both!  Kelly and I planned our weddings along side each other and were each others sounding boards through the entire process!

The day started off at Ryan’s parents home in Rancho Bernardo.  The woman in the mirror is a former bride of mine, who just celebrated her 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday!

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Kelly’s gorgeous dress hanging at the Rancho Bernardo Inn!

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The happy couple saw each other before the ceremony

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After the bulk of the photos, we headed to Bernardo Winery.  

The lovely cake below was made by Gloria’s Bakery in Escondido.

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Ryan is an amateur photographer and each table had one of his travel photos on it! 

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The ring was a little tight…

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First dance and my fav of the day!

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Ryan’s family loves to tease…this was about the time they played the Full House theme song for him…something about loving Uncle Jesse?

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Cheers!

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Ryan and Kelly, have fun without me in Amsterdam and Belgium!  I know you will!  See you when you get back!

xoxo, M

Click here to view their slideshow!  

 

 

Colin and Tristen – Rancho Buena Vista Adobe

Things look a little different around here?  What do you think?

This past Saturday was Tristen and Colin’s beautiful wedding at Rancho Buena Vista Adobe.  Its a 163 year old estate and it is so rustic and unique! 

When Tristen contacted me last year her name sounded so familiar.  I ended up asking her where she grew up and it turns out we went all the way from grade school to high school together!  She was a couple years younger than me, but we both remembered!  What a small world.

Claudia from Makeup by CJ came down to do Tristen’s makeup, she was the makeup artist at my wedding as well!

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Colin was so excited to see his bride!

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Probably my fav of the day 🙂

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Something you can’t tell from the photos but Tristen is freaking hilarious!  She has such a funny sense of humor, she cracks me up!  I got some really funny poses out of her but decided to leave those for her own own! haha

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Loved the name cards, er, rocks!

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Colin is a geographer so their head table had a map on it!  Love the intimate details!

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Tristen’s sister and Colin’s best bud giving their toasts

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Ok one hilarious and possibly embarrassing photo!  Love this, these two are so in sync they even dance alike 😉

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I had so much fun at this wedding and I recognized so many faces, it could have been a school reunion! 🙂

Hope you two are enjoying your Honeymoon!

Enjoy your slideshow!

xoxo, M

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