I was so excited to finally meet Erica and Brent! They hired me last year to shoot their wedding and since they live up north we did everything through email. This is the first time I had shot a wedding at The Inn and it was beautiful. Amazing spanish architecture! And of course a lovely bride and groom. Erica also has some experience with wedding photography so I knew I’d better really be on my toes! So without further chattering on my part, let’s get on to the photos. Thanks guys for letting me be your wedding photographer. It was a beautiful wedding. Talk to you soon!

Erica has a quiet moment before things get started.

Putting on the shoes.

All the bridesmaids react to seeing Erica in her wedding gown.

Isn’t Erica just beautiful!

Brent gets a little choked up when he sees his lovely bride for the first time. It was very sweet.

What a beautiful venue.

Can’t you just tell Brent is the happiest guy on the planet?

I loved all the cool places to shoot on this property.

The guys showing off a little.

Mr. and Mrs.

Loved the fence and trees.

Don’t they just look stunning.

A few moments before heading to the reception.

And they’re off.

Night falls in San Juan Capistrano.

The dancing at this party was great! Look at how sassy Erica is!!!

And just in case Brent had any doubt about who is in charge here ;)

The yummy cake.

Brent gets a bit of the cake.

The last dance. I love shots like these. I turned off my flash and shot it only using the available light.

As was the dress.

I really like this photo of all the women hanging out at Ramona’s house waiting to leave.

One last check before leaving!

Ramona’s grandma was just so sweet. I was taking the getting ready photos earlier upstairs and her grandma walked in and up to me and kissed me on both cheeks. I could tell this was such a happy day for the entire family.

Lovely Ramona.

Darren looking pretty good himself!

Darren checks out his new bling.

Immediately after the ceremony. These two were just so happy!!!

This photo is a little bit of a private joke between Ramona, Darren and me. I love the look on Ramona’s face.

Ramona’s bridesmaids were so stylin’ with the beautiful brown dresses and red flowers and shoes. Loved the red shoes :) And I promise that’s the last shoe post for THIS wedding.

Congrats to Lavinia and John whos wedding I will be shooting next month! I can’t wait.

Relaxing in the limo on the way to the beach.

Right when we got to the beach we saw this amazing piece of driftwood and I knew immediately thats where I wanted to photograph the wedding party! What luck :)

The happy couple.

I love series of pics! This was so funny. I asked Ramona and Darren to standing on the beach down by the surf and I knew if I waited long enough something like this might happen. You can’t really tell in the photos but the surf was coming in fast. These pics were taken less than 1 second apart. Don’t you just love the look on Ramona’s face! #1

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#3 Look at what a great job Darren is doing trying to help Ramona and the dress keep dry :)

The lovely Donna and Ben. The were my first wedding of 2006 and referred Darren and Ramona and Lavinia and John to me. Thanks guys :) You are just great!!!

just returned from their honeymoon and had the following to say about their wedding photo preview -

We love them!!! We just got back from Jamaica and I couldn’t wait to see your blog! The pictures are wonderful… You really captured our personalities and the over all feeling of the day! From the beautiful ceremony shots to the dance floor stagediving, we love the pictures! We are so excited to see the rest of them! Thank you so much for photographing our wedding, you are an amazing photographer and we feel so lucky to have had you as a part of our wedding! Talk to you soon! - Julie &Todd

this Saturday was a real treat for me for a number of reasons. #1 :) I got to go back to Palm Springs, one of my favorite places on earth. #2 :) I got to second shoot for the wonderful Teri Stumpo of White Sand Photography. #3 :) I got to shoot at the Frank Sinatra Estate and #4:) I have the most wonderful husband in the world. (more on that in the next post!) It’s been a while since I second shot for someone and it was so much fun. I got to spend a lot of time with the guys which is where I usually send my second shooter so I got to get some different kind of getting ready shots! And hear a lot of stories that I don’t normally hear when hanging out with the bride and the bridesmaids, yikes!!! So here are some pics from Jamie and Journey’s fabulous Rat Pack wedding. Teri thank you so much for taking me along with you! And congrats Jamie and Journey. I know you two are enjoying some honeymoon time and massages at the Viceroy :) Best wishes - Leigh

(I always forget to say this but clicking on photos will open them larger in a new window. stay tuned for my new blog - coming soon with BIG pics!)

The guys relaxing before the day really gets going.

Journey enjoying a cocktail pre-ceremony, just like Frank would want him to!

Did I mention already it was the Frank Sinatra Estate???

I love this photo of Journey. He just look so cool and debonair.

Gotta give some love to the ladies too.

Can’t ignore the shoes either.

COOOOOL!

Jamie and Journey see each other for the first time.

Jamie hanging out waiting for things to get started.

Wouldn’t be right to not feature some martinis!

The lovely couple.

The kiss.

More martini love :)

Mr. and Mrs.

Dusk in the desert at Frank’s place. WOW!

love their wedding and day after photos! A few days ago I got the nicest email from April and Nate and thought I would share it.

AH-MAZE-ING!!!! Amazing, stupendous, outstanding, breathtaking, etc.etc.etc. doesn’t even BEGIN to describe how we feel about our photos! We have received an awesome response to our slideshow we’ve forwarded to everyone… you’re making 200+ people cry everytime they watch it! Thank you so much for being such a wonderful photographer and person to be present at our wedding. You meshed so well with our guests, and were such fun to be around, it impressed our guests tremendously! We love our morning after photos on your blog too… good response from those too! ;) Nate and I are itching to see all the rest of the photos. Feel free to call/email whenever! We’re home now, still getting our feet back down to earth!

Talk to you soon! ~April & Nate