Bride and Groom DIY Door-Hangers

How sweet are these DIY doorhangers? Mark your bridal suite door but just downloading and printing thanks to Ruffled!

Handkerchief Table Numbers

Pretty well in love with this idea for table numbers from Bird & Banner...

Autumn Wedding at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs

It has finally happened: A chic wedding at the Ace Hotel and Swim Club Palm Springs has finally hit the big wedding blogs. Not only that, but the bridesmaids are wearing coral, the groomsmen are all in grey and the centerpieces are succulents.

It's a mini-preview of our big event coming up in little over a month and a half. It's just waiting for you here and here. Enjoy!

Night Engagement Session at Griffith Observatory

Whew! You made it to the end! Thanks for checking out the final results of our amazing day with Anika London's Josh and Ariel. They sure made us look good, and they are awesome people to boot. We just had the best time, can you tell?

These night shots are my absolute favorites from the lot. Maybe it's just the romantic in me or maybe we finally got comfortable in front of the camera by the end of the night but, for whatever reason, I am just in love with these photos. I feel so blessed to have such stunning pics to cherish for the rest of our lives that truly capture how I feel about the man I'm about to marry. I adore him!

Sorry for all the mushiness! Hope you have enjoyed the tour of our engagement photo highlights. I sure can't wait to see what amazing pictures we get from the wedding, it's so soon!

Dusk Engagement Session at Griffith Observatory

Los Angeles is just stunning isn't it? Jonathon has made me promise that no matter where we move through the years we will have our kids in LA so that they can be sixth generation Angelenos. We will see!

I think you have figured out by now that having our City of Angels as a backdrop was really important to us. Anika London did an amazing job of keeping the focus on us, but still setting us up against gorgeous backdrops. We took these pics a few weeks before Christmas and were blessed with the most amazing clear day. Sorry Midwesterners, you read that right! I'm wearing a t-shirt at night a few weeks before Christmas! I love LA.

For the close to our shoot day we headed up to Griffith Observatory where we enjoyed the city lights and beautiful sunset. Enjoy!

The rest of our engagement shoot highlights from our night at Griffith Observatory are up next.

Rooftop Engagement Shoot at the LA Farmer's Market

After we joshed around in the Farmer's Market we found a little private staircase (we definitely stepped right over the "closed, do not enter" sign... oops) that led to a rooftop patio overlooking the FM and the Grove. I think these came out so well because we felt like we were in our own quiet space but we were actually surrounded by so much action. The Romeo and Juliet super-fan in me that just loves a good balcony scene. :)

I also think the colors came out just amazing in this series.

More to come from our final engagement shoot location, Griffith Observatory, tomorrow.

Engagement Photo Shoot at LA Farmer's Market

The Original Los Angeles Farmer's Market has so much color and character, we knew we had to go there for part of our engagement shoot. Once we got there, however, we were a little overwhelmed by how busy it was, which, obviously we should have thought of before hand seeing as how the Farmer's Market is attached to the Grove and it was a Sunday a few weekends before Christmas... Duh.

I'm so glad we didn't ixnay this location though, as it has sentimental value to Jonathon and I, and because the pics we got here were some of our absolute favorites of the bunch. We definitely did get stares and random comments from passers-by, but it was all part of the fun. Josh and Ariel of Anika London could not have been more wonderful about dealing with the mayhem and steady stream of people, and we all had a really great time goofing off.

If you live in LA, you HAVE to go to the Farmer's Market, take a stroll and then gorge yourself on Brazilian food by the pound at Pampas Grill. Loteria Mexican food is also awesome, and there are a million other delicious spots from crepes to ice cream. The Farmer's Market is really one of our favorite things about Los Angeles. Hope you enjoyed our pics.

Up next are our pics from Griffith Observatory, our final location from the shoot...

BCAM at LACMA Engagement Session

Good Morning and Happy February! We're continuing on with our "Engagement Shoot Tour LA" this morning with the fav shots from BCAM @ LACMA (aka: The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the LA County Museum of Art for those who don't speak acronym). One of our main reasons for choosing to spend part of our shoot at BCAM is the amazing Renzo Piano architecture. Hope you enjoy the red-green contrast as much as me, and that you aren't sick of looking at our mushiness yet! There is much more to come...


Bottom, middle or top of an escalator - I really like this guy. It's hilarious to me how many escalator shots we got and actually loved. You would think looking at our proofs that we spent an hour riding up and down but we actually only took one trip up. I guess we're just that good :)

Confession: We totally felt like rockstars standing on the balcony here at BCAM. Can you tell? Dang it feels good to be a gangster! And how baller is that Hollywood Hills backdrop?! Definitely worth all those trips up the escalator.



This portrait sequence is one of my favorites of our engagement pictures... It shows how multi-faceted we are! See: we're serious, happy, jokey, and snuggley! I didn't love the blur effect our photogs used at first glance at these, but the more I look at these the more I think it helps to keep us as the focus... literally. :)

Hope you enjoyed our LACMA engagement pictures! More highlights from our next location coming up tomorrow... PS: In case you're keeping track like me, only 55 days to go!