Monique and Randy are true lovebirds. One year ago, these childhood sweethearts married in a simple courthouse ceremony. To celebrate their first anniversary on July 9th of this year, they decided to have the wedding they never had. And they did it in style — aboard the yacht Spirit of Newport. Their closest family and friends were all onboard for the cruise around Newport [...]

I truly love my job. I mean, it is almost cliché these days to hear a photographer swooning on their blog (or the About page on their site) about what “passion” they have for photography, or how they love what they do. However, at the risk of sounding cliché, I will say it again — I do truly love my job. At the beginning [...]

On Sunday, June 26th, we were at one of our favorite locations to capture beautiful “woodsy” engagement portraits — Glen Arbor Park in Murrieta (also known to locals as the “Dog Park”). Today’s portrait session was for Charlinn McCuiston and Chris Watkins.

As is the case with many people, Charlinn and Chris consider themselves somewhat camera-shy. And, as usual, within 10 minutes of starting their [...]

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you’ll remember Courtney and James from their fun engagement portrait session (HERE) where they did a split session — half at the park with their dogs and half in Old Town Temecula. We made a cute engagement session video for them then too. They were so much fun during the engagement portrait session, that I truly could [...]

On Sunday, June 19th, we were back in what has now officially become my favorite location to photograph engagement portraits — Old Town Temecula. On this day, I was photographing Jennifer Williams and Shawn Percival, whose wedding I will be photographing on Friday, September 30th at Wiens Family Cellars in Temecula — which also happens to be one of my favorite weddings venues.

Jennifer and [...]