Any time of year is a good time of year to get married in Southern California. And, although the vines were bare, Saturday, January 14th was a very good day to get married at Wiens Family Cellars! The weather was calm and the temperature was perfect as Greer Wayland and Scott Sheldon said, “I Do” just before sunset.

The day started with photos in the vines. [...]

2011 was a great year for Loren Scott Photography! We were busier than ever and had the pleasure of photographing weddings and engagement sessions for a bunch of really awesome couples. Rachel and I have selected some of our own personal favorites from 2011, and we also asked our happy couples to pick out some of their own as well.

So, here they are, from the [...]

On Sunday, December 11th, Loren and I photographed a beautiful engagement session with Jennifer Dominguez and Sergio Gutierrez at Glen Arbor Park (aka The Dog Park) in Murrieta. Despite the chill factor, it turned out to be a pretty good day for an engagement shoot. The weather was cooperating (as we’d just had heavy rains the week before), the early afternoon lighting was perfect, and [...]

On November 16th, Loren and I had the amazingly fun task of photographing an Old Town Temecula engagement session with Sarah Williams and Jeff Arbuckle. Sarah is a bit of a laugher…actually, that’s putting it mildly! Sarah laughs all the time and her laughter is infectious! It was quite fun watching her interact with Jeff while trying to keep a straight face. The resulting pictures [...]

On Saturday, December 3rd, I was close to home in Murrieta at the World Harvest Church to photograph our final wedding of the year, the beautiful winter wedding of Chantale Stamp and Anthony Ley! I had photographed Anthony’s High School senior portraits a couple of years ago. So, when it was time to plan his wedding, his mother contacted us right away. (Thank you, [...]

Last month we photographed a really awesome Fearless Bridal session in Laguna with one of our July brides, Monique Smith. Awesome weather, access to a private beach, Monique’s carefree spirit, and Monique’s romantic husband, Randy, all converged together for a perfect storm of picture taking!

Also known as a “Trash The Dress” session, that term may scare some brides, who fear the thought of actually [...]

On Friday, October 28, 2011, we were at the Bali Hai Restaurant in San Diego photographing the wedding of Kasey Middlestead and Trevor Schultz. Kasey and Trevor had a perfect bayside ceremony complete with gorgeous weather and a sparkling water view! And following the ceremony was a fun daytime reception on the Bali Hai patio, complete with fun and funky cake centerpieces!

As with their engagement [...]

On October 16th, I was at my most popular beach location for photographing engagement portraits — Laguna Beach, just behind the Montage Resort. On this occasion, the happy engaged couple in front of my lens was Vi Ly and her fiance, Steven Aranda.

Vi and Steven are doing a great job of planning ahead, as their wedding is not until next July 8th (at [...]

As I mentioned in the previous blog post, this winter is unusually busy with weddings for us, and Jill Liggett and Aaron Maurice are another of our happy winter wedding couples, with their wedding coming up next February 4th at the Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet Center in Fallbrook.

During their initial consultation with us, Aaron was telling me that he maintains the private wine cellar for [...]

Usually, the main “wedding season” runs from March through October. However, this year has been our busiest ever with weddings scheduled in November, December, and next January and February as well! Greer Wayland and Scott Sheldon are one of our happy winter couples and will be getting married at Wiens Family Cellars this coming January 14th.

So, on October 9th, we met up with Greer [...]

Seven years ago, April and Ken Gaudette said “I do”. And they hired a fairly well-known and respected wedding photographer to document their day. Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case with even the best in the business, for various reasons, their photographer (who will remain unnamed here) just did not have sufficient time to capture enough of the romantic portraits that April and Ken [...]

On Friday, September 30th, Jennifer Williams and Shawn Percival had a beautiful wine country wedding at Wiens Family Cellars.

And, although my natural style of photography is primarily photojournalistic and candid, when my client wants to ‘model it up’ a bit, who am I to say no? Jennifer had sent us a list of some specific shots she was hoping to capture on the day [...]

People often ask me if I ever get tired of photographing weddings. Or they ask if it ever gets old seeing the same old things over and over. On the contrary, one of the reasons I stopped doing general portraiture at the beginning of this year to focus on weddings was the fact that each one is unique and special. Yet, I have to admit [...]

It has been a few weeks since our last blog update, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy. Quite the opposite, in fact. In the past two weeks, I’ve photographed two other weddings (after the one in this post) and spent nearly every free moment packing and unpacking as we moved into our brand spanking new house! Now that we have a moment to [...]

We have a lot of out of state couples who come from all over the U.S. to marry in our beautiful Temecula Wine Country. Kathryne Starmer and Conrad Vaughan came a little further — across the Atlantic to be exact — from their home in the United Kingdom. AND they brought all of their closest friends and family members to celebrate with them on Thursday, [...]

The day was Saturday, August 20th and Charlinn McCuiston was a nervous bride. Prior to the ceremony, she was acting as many young brides do just prior to marrying the man of their dreams. She was checking every detail and checking it again. The cutest thing is that, a few times, she actually apologized to me for acting so nervous. I have [...]

On Thursday, July 21st, we were at the home of Alex Ashforth and Chris Forney in Escondido to photograph their engagement portraits. It is not often that I photograph engagement portraits at a couple’s home. However, in this case, I’ll be back there on September 24th to photograph their wedding.

Weddings held at private residences are becoming more and more popular. [...]

On Saturday, July 30th we were at Glen Arbor Park in Murrieta to photograph the engagement portraits for Mary-Alice Welshon and Clint Navrkal. I will be photographing their wedding on September 3rd in the Murrieta community of La Cresta.

Mary-Alice and Clint were one of those couples that started out initially wary of the camera. But, as usual, after the first series of shots (in [...]

On July 23, 2011, I was back in beautiful Temecula Wine Country to photograph the wedding of Megan Ashton and John Proctor at Keyways Vineyard and Winery. One of the first things I noticed upon my arrival were the unique flower arrangements and eye catching bouquets. In a word: GREEN. Megan (maybe because she’s a Texas resident?) had chosen succulents for her floral theme. Organic [...]

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 [...]