Working with newborn babies can be a lot of fun. Even at such a young age they all have little unique personalities. Parker was the perfect little baby on our shoot with him. He was happy and awake when we arrived allowing us time to get some really great photos with him and his parents. After some smiling and pirate winking he was ready for a meal and a nice nap. This was of course the perfect time to wrap him up and get those awesome newborn sleeping photos. We had a great time working with Parker and his wonderful parents. It will be fun to see him grow and change.
One year ago today we dragged eight of our closest friends and family up into the Scottish hills and pledged our love for one another forever in front of a man wearing a kilt. We get asked a lot which one of us is Scottish, and the answer is really neither. We wanted our wedding to be something special and unique to us. We were looking at a number of places in Europe to say our I Do’s but the green countryside, rainy weather and crumbling castles of Scotland stole our hearts. Your thinking did I just read rainy weather? Yes we are major fans of rain, fog and incredibly puffy clouds. Like the sometimes last minute people that we can be, we planned our destination wedding in 8 short weeks. We found all of our vendors online, because lets face it you can’t taste cake or get a make up trial from an entire continent away. But the internet is an incredible tool and we found some absolutely amazing vendors.
Our flights were a joke. Two planes broke down before they could take off, we were re-routed to airports we weren’t supposed to be at, missed an international flight, got put up in a hotel in Chicago and eventually had to drop the “we are on our way to get married” card so that a nice man at the help counter would put us on a plane to Glasgow. Our original destination airport was Edinburgh so we picked up a one way rental car in Glasgow and drove ourselves to the Edinburgh airport to pick up our scheduled rental car and our friends that had been waiting for us for over 2 hours. As you may have figured by now, our luggage got very very lost. But don’t fret we were smart enough to pack our wedding attire in our carry on bag.
Well Scotland was incredible. We rented a flat in Edinburgh with our friends and lived the local life for a few days. We walked to pubs and found small eateries in the neighborhood. During the day we adventured out into the lush countryside where most of our time was spent taking pictures of sheep and exploring old castles.
Choosing the location for our ceremony came down to one thing, a car. Brett had found this vintage 1960’s Austin Healey 3000 two seater convertible that he wanted to rent for the day. Well this amazing little car was an hour outside of Edinburgh so to make the time line of our wedding day run smoothly we had to find a spot to get married that was close to where we would pick up the car. It made the search criteria pretty interesting. Luck would have it though and we found the perfect castle just 10 minutes from the Healey.
Our wedding day was very relaxed. We chose to do a first look on the royal mile just outside of The Witchery where we were taking everyone for dinner. It was important to us to spend as much of our wedding day together as we could. In the afternoon we met our rag tag little group of guests at Castle Campbell where we were blessed with beautiful clouds and some serious wind but no rain. Our Humanist celebrant Peter in his awesome kilt led our little group up a dirt trail and out onto the grassy hills overlooking our Castle. When everyone was set and ready Brett and I walked up arm in arm with our bagpiper Andrew in tow. To this day (which is still fresh at only 365 days sense) Brett and I both get chills and brought right back to that moment when we hear bagpipe music. We highly recommend if you ever find yourself venturing into the Scottish hillside on vacation, to hire a bagpiper to follow you around. So worth it. The ceremony felt surreal as I’m sure lots of brides will tell you. And the rest of the day flew by. We got one last jaunt in the Healey before returning it, and with the big moment over we put the top down and let the wind have at my hair. Dinner at The Witchery was fantastic. Our group was so small that we just reserved a long table in their dining room and let our guests choose what struck their fancy off the menu. Lets just say a lot of Whisky was tried by all.
We want to say a big Thanks to all of the wonderful vendors that made our day happen!
It was so much fun working with Rehana and Mark on their Belmont Park Engagement Photos. This is the kind of engagement shoot you just never want to end. We went from fun event to fun event, from riding beach cruiser bikes down the mission beach board walk to screaming our lungs out on the roller coaster. The day was like a carnival. Rehana and Mark waited in line surrounded by kiddos to hop on the carousel, which never seems to go as fast as it did when you were a kid. After choosing the perfect carousel animals and a few dizzying circles around we followed them over to a baseball pitching carnival game. And no day is complete without some arcade time. Rehana and Mark really know how to have a good time and it was a blast to tag along with them for the day. It would be hard to choose a favorite moment from Rehana and Mark’s Belmont Park engagement photos but I’d have to say the roller coaster might take the cake. Our beach segment of the day was also a lot of fun.
I think the roller coaster really was my favorite moment from Rehana and Mark’s Belmont Park engagement photos. The pure raw emotion on their faces is truly amazing. These two had so much fun playing at the arcade on their engagement shoot.Mission Beach has an abundance of lovely walk ways and vintage san diego bungalows that make for ideal quit photos when the boardwalk starts to get a little crowded. The friendliest little kitten adventured up to take part in our shoot, and beg for some attention. Fun props to bring on your engagement shoot…. how about Smashball!
Evan and Meagan had a beautiful Playa Del Carmen Destination Wedding. They traveled down to Mexico with their family from Tucson and spent two phenomenal weeks at an all inclusive resort in Playa Del Carmen called Barcelo Riviera Maya . A lot of Meagan’s family was traveling in for the wedding from the east coast so part of their reasoning for a destination wedding was that it would give all of their guests a memorable vacation somewhere spectacular. By having their wedding at an all inclusive resort allowed Meagan and Evan to spend a lot more quality time with their family and guests. Meagan did a great job preplanning everything from afar so that on the day of their wedding she and Evan could relax and enjoy the day.
Their ceremony was laid out beautifully on one of the resorts private beaches. With a fun indoor reception to follow.
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