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One of the things we love about working with Chad and Jenna is how unique and daring  a couple they are.  A little over a year ago they had us lowly San Diego wedding photographers travel with them to shoot their romantic and truly amazing engagement shoot at the Havasupai Waterfalls in the Grand Canyon.  Here we all are a year later and this wonderful couple asked us to create one of the most amazing Trash the Dress sessions we have done thus far.   We joined them the day following their beautiful backyard wedding ceremony outside of Phoenix Arizona. The four of us caravanned our way back to San Diego where they were they were to be Honeymooning.  Along the route we stopped at Junkyards in Gila bend, abandoned Hotels, roads leading to nowhere, enormous stacks of hay bales, and ended our photo adventure at the Buttercup Sand Dunes just outside of Yuma Arizona.  These two gave us an entire day of in and out of the car and were up for anything.

“Want to explore these old busses?”  Sure!

“Want a leg up onto those hay bales?”  Sure!

“Lets head up to the top of those dunes”  You bet!

“Quick run after that train!”

And they were so happy to do it all.  This was one of those shoots where everything went right and mother nature gave us everything we needed.  Enjoy

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Our first adventure to Joshua Tree National Park was earlier this year in the spring time for a photo shoot.  The desert flowers were blooming but  in all honesty it was a bit hot for us San Diego locals.  All year we have been itching to make our way back to this magical desert landscape with it’s towering rock formations.  We got together with some of the original photo shoot crew and ventured out to the park for well needed camping and relaxation.

With temperatures in the 30’s at night and wind that cut right through us, our first evening was not what we had hoped for.  North Face jackets and hand warmers came to our rescue and we warmly survived.  Come sunrise we were rewarded with beautiful puffy clouds and a warm sun.  An epic breakfast of eggs, beacon, and cinnamon rolls, (yes I said cinnamon rolls) had us energized for adventuring into the park in search of rock climbing and photo opportunities.

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I can not say enough good things about Diana and JB.  They are high school sweethearts that  went their separate ways when Diana  headed off for college and fate threw them back together one Christams break a few years later.  They thrived and survived long distance  from LA to Santa Barbara and then finally got the chance to move back to their home town of San Diego.  Six wonderful years together and JB finally proposed to Diana on a beautiful cliffside over looking the city of Santa Barbara.

We were extremely excited to work with Diana and JB on their Engagement shoot  especially knowing they wanted something a little unique and different.  A couple bottles of Champaigne and several  planning sessions later a Vintage 50’s beach shoot was settled upon.  It was only appropriate that this fantastic engagement shoot take place on their old stomping grounds of La Jolla at Windansea Beach.  Diana found the cutest polka dot bathing suit and styled JB in cloths from the back of his father’s closet.  Erin from Hall Events put together phenomenal propping for the shoot and came along to style it.   To top off the Vintage fun, there were classic Coke bottles, a seriously cool old cooler,  hearts on sticks, and we can’t forget the Bocce.  It was a beautiful San Diego day full of romance and beach fun.

This was one of the most fun Engagement shoots we have done yet thanks to everyone involved.

We are also super excited to announce that Diana and JB’s vintage beach engagement shoot at Windansea in La Jolla was picked up by Style Me Pretty!

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