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February 12, 2013

Wedding UCSD Faculty Club | Kian and Stephanie | San Diego Wedding Photographers

As far as La Jolla Wedding venues go, the UCSD Faculty Club is a truly unique and beautiful place. It is tucked back on the expansive campus surrounded by outdoor art instillations and groves of eucalyptus trees. The Faculty Club hosts several ways for couples to have their ceremony and reception, whether it be an outdoor lawn occasion or indoor formal. Kian and Stephanie had their wedding ceremony in the club’s lovely courtyard. A beautiful wooden pergola covers the courtyard and young grape vines are just starting to fill in and drape down from above, creating an extra touch of romance. Kian and Stephanie wanted to spend as much time as possible with their friends and family so they planned a first look into their day. The eucalyptus trees surrounding the venu created the perfect setting for Kian to see Stephanie in her dress for the first time. The wedding party then joined us for some fun portraits around the iconic UCSD library.

The ceremony was truly special and unique involving friends and family members for different aspects of it. Kian’s best friend got ordained for a day so that he could marry them. Then at the end of the ceremony Kian’s sister did a reading and explained to all the guests about the Persian part of the ceremony as Kian and Stephanie went through each step. It was beautiful to watch theses two special people come together.

Thank You Kian and Stephanie for including us in your amazing day!

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Our Awesome Fellow Venders who helped to make this happen.

Hair Ya Go!

Rikki Lee Tieman

www.hairyagosd.com

Make-up Artistry by Gale

Gale Alexander

gale@make-upartistry.com

Getting Ready Location:

Courtyard Marriott-Solana Beach

717 South Highway 101

Solana Beach, CA 92075

Venue: UCSD

Julia Engstrom

858-534-0876

9500 Gilman Drive,

La Jolla CA 92093

Flowers: Cherry Blossom

Kiyoko Ando

info@cherryblossomfloraldesigns.com

Cake: Cute Cakes

Jill Reilly

jill@cutecakes-sd.com

DJ: Matty Mac

Matt Machler

Djmatty.mac@hotmail.com

January 8, 2013

Gene Leahy Mall | Omaha Nebraska | Andrea and Trent | Rock The Dress

Some call it a Trash the Dress we prefer the term Rock the Dress because most of the time your not destroying the dress or getting it any dirtier than it did on the wedding day. When we do a destination wedding something we like to work into the weekend is a Rock the Dress the day after the wedding. Most of the time we prescout amazing locations, the Bride has the opportunity to put her dress back on for one more day and the groom might wear his wedding day formals or dress a little more comfortably and we head out for some truly incredible portraits.

Andrea and Trent destinationed to Nebraska for a beautiful barn wedding and the next day we hit up Gene Leahy Mall in downtown Omaha for some fun portraits. Dont’ let the name deceive you it’s, a lovely little stream way surrounded by trees and banks of grass.

November 16, 2012

Ackerhurst Dairy Barn | Omaha Nebraska | Wedding | Andrea & Trent

I would be lying if I said we weren’t really excited for this wedding. When we first started talking to Andrea and Trent about their wedding they were still in the process of finding the right location. Most of Andrea’s family are based in San Diego but it was important to both Andrea and Trent that his Grandfather in Nebraska be able to attend their wedding. A barn wedding was on the top of their list, so when the Ackerhurst Dairy Barn in Omaha popped onto their radar it just seemed ment to be.

The Ackerhurst Dairy Barn is a spectacular old red wooden barn located a few minutes out side of Omaha Nebraska. It has been transformed into a lovely wedding venu with a clean bright white interior to contrast the beautiful red exterior. Weddings can be held inside or out on the lawn infront of the barn.

Andrea DIY’d for months before the wedding getting all her beautiful decorations ready for the big day. They used the interior of the barn for the reception and strung up gray and yellow pom poms along with twinkly white christmas lights. The ceremony took place on the front of the property with the barn framing up a perfect background. Andrea’s brother played music for everyone and then took her arm along with her father to walk her down the aisle. The ceremony was beautiful, with readings from both Andrea and Trent’s mothers, followed by a sand ceremony and a touching speech about the significance of their rings. With a kiss to seal the deal the couple was off to play on farm equipment with their wedding party for photos!

Everyone got on the dance floor including Grandpa, and when the tunes didn’t have everyone grooving they were grabbing props and jumping into the photo booth. This wedding day was jam packed with fun all the way down to the sparkler send off.

The Ackerhurs Dairy Barn has a wonderful old red tractor at one end that was perfect for our fun wedding party to crawl around on for portraits.
The girls DIY’d their own bouquets and wrapped them with twine. They even made the guys boutonnieres to match.

Andrea’s grandmother hand sewed all the heart wedding favors. So cute! I can only imagine how long it must have taken her.

November 13, 2012

Imperial Sand Dunes | California | Chad and Jenna | Trash The Dress

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

In Gila Bend we were fortunate enough to make friends with the nice owners of a junk yard. Not only did they allow us to climb around in their old busses and snap away photos but they pulled out their classic 1955 Chevy Bel Air just for Chad and Jenna.
Classic cars just seem to add this extra romance to any photo shoot, especially when it’s a pink convertible.
It is hard to choose a favorite moment or location from this Trash the Dress but I would have to say that the Imperial Sand Dunes might just win out.“Race ya!”

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