Have you ever checked out the APW blog? It's full of amazing stories and advice for planning your perfect "practical" wedding and you know that all the vendors on the site have taken the APW Sanity Pledge and now so have I! All APW-approved vendors, agree that: ... A wedding is an awesome party, but it’s the marriage that really matters. ... It takes two people to get married. It’s not all about the bride (and sometimes there isn’t a bride to begin with). ... We support LGBTQ couples right to marry, and we are delighted to work with them. ... We don't charge a premium just because we heard the word "wedding." ... We will be upfront and fair about our pricing. We won't surprise you with a secret fee because you want frosting on the cake, not just the cake. ... You don't have to have cake at your wedding. ... However you decided to tie the
Archive for Feb 2012
Maribel is a beautiful and talented "Mariachita" or Mariachera which as I just found out is the correct term. She is based in San Jose and contacted me to do some fabulous "Rock Star" pics for her business. I heard her sweet voice before I ever met her, when she sang a special song for Mike & Erika at their wedding this past September. She had everyone in tears including myself (which made it a little hard to remember to capture the moments because I was enjoying them so much). In the first image below, you can see that when she sang the world stood still. I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled up for our session and both of her parents got out of the car, shook my hand and chatted with me about how we wanted the session to go. Her Dad stayed in the car close by and
I recently had a close friend of mine who is carrying her own bun in the oven, ask me how I felt about being hired to document the birth of her Lil Schmoo. Did I think that was strange? I immediately jumped all over it, explaining that on February 2nd, 2009 I was documenting the amazing birth of Jude the Dude! It was such an unbelievable, enlightening, emotional and beautiful experience, just going through the pictures to re-post this made tears well up in my eyes all over again. We just celebrated Jude's 3rd birthday. He is an awesome little man and I will always have a special connection with him, because I was a part of his beautiful journey into the world. Scot and Valentine are amazing friends of mine and even more amazing parents. It was an inspiration to watch the interaction between them as the time got closer
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These two are in love. There is no better way to sum it up. Pure, steamy, passionate, honest love. They inspire people around them to be in love and if they already are, then they inspire them to be in love more. She brings out the youthful, goofy, wild-child in him and he is her perfect balance . They just get each other and they have chosen the perfect place to celebrate their amazing love, Yelapa, Mexico. I am beyond ecstatic to be a part of their celebration when we join them, their family and their closest friends for an intimate ceremony on the beach. There are no cars in Yelapa and the only way to get there from Puerto Vallarta is via boat taxi. While brainstorming wedding ideas with Justine and Laura last week, she showed us the accommodations, grass roof huts on the beach. For real?!? We are jumping
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It's long standing tradition in Mike's family for the boys to have their very first haircut by Uncle Ralph at the Barber Shop he has owned for 50 years. It's everything you envision a classic Barber Shop to have the burgundy chair that spins and still has an ash tray, the mustache brushes and straight razors, the sign on the wall that offers you a shave and a haircut and Uncle Ralph's special treat for the youngster's, a wooden horse they get to ride while they sit in the chair. So today was Nico's day, his very first haircut and it was a perfect. When Mike and I walked in Nico was sitting on his proud father's lap attempting to brush everyone's hair including his own. Paola's eyes welled up with tears as Nico's beautiful locks floated to floor realizing that her little boy was growing up more and more
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