Liz and Paul - Guest Book

This is now the second time that we have completed an album like this with Laura at FMN Design... A guest book filled with images from an engagement session with a couple. What a great idea, don't you think?! It sure beats the traditional 'sign your name in this blank book' style that you continually see at weddings. Take a look at this guest book that we just completed for Liz and Paul. Laura incorporated about 40 of our favorite images with enough blank space to allow the guests to write anything, anywhere in the book. We just love it! Thanks Laura!

Oh, and Asuka printed and bound the album... We like them too!

Lorena and Colter - Engagement

Lorena and Colter met and began dating in high school... (insert long story here).  After reconnecting with each other in college, they fell in love and were engaged 9 years later!   We had the pleasure of spending a beautiful afternoon with them and their son Juan Carlos, who celebrated his 12th birthday that day!  We met them at China Camp in San Rafael...  What an amazing setting for photography!  If you haven't been there, it is full of character and texture... Everywhere you turn is a photograph waiting to be taken.  Lorena and Colter are two of the most adorable people we have met and they were a delight to be with.  We mixed in a few shots of them with Juan Carlos and ended the day out on a boardwalk overlooking the marshland and bay.  The end of day light was stunning.   We are really looking forward to their wedding in August. Congratulations to Lorena and Colter!

Liz and Paul - Engagement

We had the pleasure of photographing my brother Paul and soon to be sister-in-law, Liz in Florida. We flew to Marco Island, where my parents stay during the wintertime and met up with Paul, Liz and her parents. We began the shoot by taking them to a small fishing community called Goodland. We photographed them at a local outdoor bar with a lot of 'charm', called Stan's. To give you a little understanding of the character of this location, here is a link to their yearly Goodland Mullet Festival... check it out! The next day, we rented a boat and cruised around the islands, stopping along the way and taking portraits. What a blast! This is one of my favorite things to do in Florida... Being on the water is so relaxing. We ended the day on the beach at sunset, something that Liz really wanted for their engagement session. It couldn't have been a more georgous sunset. It was a calm and beautiful setting. This was also a great opportunity for Laura and I to photograph together. We worked really well together, as expected, but we had way more fun than we anticipated. Special thanks to my parents for putting us up and putting up with us, Liz's parents for driving all the way down from Pensacola, and to Liz and Paul for the opportunity to photograph their engagement. We can't wait for the wedding!

Here are a few more images from a previous post.

Sneak Peek - Liz and Paul Engaged

Matt and our associate photographer, Laura flew to Marco Island, Florida to shoot an engagement session of Liz and Paul. We had beautiful weather and had a great time photographing together! Here is a sneak peek of some of the images... More to come!

Pebble Beach Engagement

What a great time we had photographing Kimberly and Danny in Pebble Beach. We started the day photographing them at their family home where they will be married in September. We toured 17 mile Drive stopping at beautiful spots along the way. We ended at their favorite beach in Carmel sipping wine and enjoying the sunset. We really enjoyed getting to know them and can't wait to capture the wedding day in a few months!