I could run-on-sentence about these two for hours. They are an inspiration to anyone who sees them together. So right for each other… I’m so glad these guys are getting married!

Xander and Vanessa drove down from San Fransisco for their engagement shoot which was just killer! After the shoot, we realized that it just seemed silly for them to drive all the way back up to SF, only to turn around and come back to Santa Barbara in a few months, so we invited them to come live with us – just until their wedding in October.

So, they are living at our house now – sleeping on the air mattress and doing their part of the household chores and such. It’s awesome.
Update: Everyone got jealous and we don’t want to play favorites, so we hereby extend the invite to all of our engaged couples! You guys can all come and live with us until your wedding, yay!

Haha, I can’t help making up stories – sorry! Got to keep you guys on your toes. Actually after the shoot, the four of us had an awesome dinner at Bouchon (yum!), and Xander and Vanessa gave us a copy of their favorite music mix and it was a rad night to be had by all. Byeee.

As mentioned before, these two are so rad, and so in love… we really are privileged to know them. Becky is our intern and has just been phenomenal in everything she does. She’s a unique blend of A type personality and right brain creative and it’s just unbelievable that we get to work with her.

Eric, as you should be able to tell is just the warmest guy ever. I can’t imagine anyone not liking this guy… I mean, he just wins you over in like 3 seconds. You shake his hand, you look in his eyes, and you know that Becky is with the right guy.

Alright… now, look at the pictures!

Love x 100,000,000,000,000,000!

Danny & Crystal were the winners of the auction that benefited the Fredeen family a few months back.  Even though an engagement wasn’t technically included, we had to do one! Such a sweet couple, such good hearts!

This was the perfect way to get to know each other, seriously… I love engagement shoots. We shared a pitcher of beer at Freebirds, swapped hilarious stories about living in IV, and walked everywhere. The light was perfect, Austin & Jenn were rad, and it was good times all around. I am really excited about these guys!

It was freezing cold on this day, and windy, and basically torture, but Cody and Laura were champs and we came down the mountain some rad shots. Cody’s beard kept him warm, but Laura and I had to suffer in our dresses.  Okay, okay, so only Laura had a dress on, but enough about that, hehe.  Let me tell you about these guys: They relax everyone in the room just by entering it, they make relationships look easy, and they work insane hours without going insane.  Aaaand they know everything about sneezing pandas that there is to know.

Love you guys,

A & D

The engagement shoot is basically the best thing ever: you get to hang out with each other, talk about your relationship, and help create some awesome images. Now, if you add rain and coffee into the equation, you’ve got a whole other level of awesomeness.

It had been pouring that whole week, and I half expected Trevor and Cat to back out of the shoot, but as you can see… they didn’t. Dara and I high-fived when we heard back that it was still a go.

A little known fact: Dara and I did not kiss until we were engaged. So, when I found out that these two are not kissing until they are married, I almost did a back flip into a parked car. Fortunately, I was able to flip over the car completely and land unharmed, so it was no big deal. We cannot wait to capture that first kiss at their wedding, and you can be sure that it will be blogged.

PS: Actually, I think it was a double backflip…

Ben’s smile tells me that he knows something that I don’t, or that he’s up to something… haha! Either way, this makes Ben a blast to hang out with. His quick sense of humor kept us rolling the entire shoot, and there wasn’t a silent moment between the two of us. My cheeks still hurt from that day! Stacy is probably the only person who can keep a straight face around Ben, yet she always has that content smile in her eyes. Every time Stacy laughs, you get the feeling that you’ve known her for years. She is such a compliment to Ben, definitely his biggest fan, and no doubt the perfect one for him to come home to every day.

There is something very sacred between these two and you can catch a glimpse of it in their eyes just before one makes fun of the other. Thank you Ben and Stacy for hanging out, going on this shoot, and having dinner with us afterward. Your wedding is going to be awesome town!

These are some of our favorite unblogged engagement sessions from the last year or so.  As you look at them, we invite you to really look at them and SEE these beautiful people.  Do you feel that?

Wow, we work with most incredible couples on this planet.  I am tearing up with gratitude…. so, so thankful right now.

After an awesome first meeting with Will & Jen, we asked them (as we always do), “Do you want to go shooting right now?!” and they said YES!  OHHH, how we love to hear that word!

Here are a few shots that we took just before sunset in San Francisco’s financial district.  Afterward, we headed out to the world famous Burger Bar for some great beer and good eats

Did I mention that we only had one lens for this whole shoot?!  Since Austin is a lens-junkie, it was a fun exercise in simplicity and creativity.  Can anyone guess which lens it was that we had?

Some behind the scenes shots from our Iphone Photo Blog: