McLeod Plantation Wedding | A large family equals a large wedding, which means lots and lots of planning. Michelle reached out to us just a few days before their arrival in Charleston. They had been engaged for awhile and wedding plans were in full effect back home in Florida. They’re minimal idealistic vision had slowly […]

A Bernardus Lodge Wedding | A wedding venue most brides dream about their entire lives. Nestled in the hills of Carmel Valley, California, with vineyards stretched along the 28 acres of magnificent views of the Santa Lucia Mountains, this is the crème de la crème wedding location. The moment you enter the lavender lined driveway, […]

A Scottsdale Arizona wedding. I’m looking back through the images from Walker and Molly’s wedding and in aw of how beautiful the day was, but I struggled with how to write this blog. Do I share with you all the amazing highlights of the day and tell you how everything was perfect, or reveal the […]

Details! Details! Details! Our hearts were swooning over all the details Kate had created from us the moment we walked through the door. She was just as excited as we were, if not more, to literally take us by the hand and guide us to the awaiting full invitation suite (which she had the calligrapher […]

A Santa Lucia Preserve wedding is like no other. Time and time again we are in awe of how absolutely gorgeous the weddings are we capture really are. Every single detail thought of, no stone left unturned, nothing forgotten. It feels as if we’re walking through the pages of a real life magazine!  We love […]

In 2011, when we started to photograph weddings, we created a long list of all the dream wedding venues we wanted to capture weddings at, and felt if we were able to book a wedding at each of these venues, we had officially “made it.” It’s so funny for us to look back at this […]

That’s right friends, we’re back and better than EVER!!! Where have we been you might be asking yourself? Well, Rachel had a baby, we packed two houses and traveled over 2,100 cross country with three adults, two large dogs, a newborn, and now call Charleston, South Carolina home. That’s all. Oh, do we have stories […]

A Carmel Valley wedding. Occasionally there are those weddings that leave our hearts aching for more! So much thought goes into the bridal details, the couple uses the timeline we create, they do a first look, nearly everything is outdoors during daylight, and chose their vendors using our preferred vendor list. Oh my word, that […]

Notice a theme in our t-shirts, low hanging magical moss, and huge smiles across our faces? Besides keeping the secret we announced last week that Rachels pregnant, we’ve also been holding in something else. As of the end of the year, we will be calling Charleston home! We’re MOVING!!! That’s right, we’re trading the west […]

A Bernardus Lodge Wedding. There is no other place you would rather spend your late summer days than in Carmel Valley. Just miles from the coast, tucked between the rolling mountains, where it’s always warm, yet afternoons have that cool ocean breeze. The grapes from the vineyards have been harvested leaving a sweetness in the […]

Monterey Peninsula Country Club Wedding. From the moment we arrived to the getting ready cottage, we knew this was going to be a dream wedding! We had met Teresa and John nearly a year earlier, you may remember them from their gorgeous engagement session starting along the greens of The Beach & Tennis Club at Pebble […]

A Ventana Big Sur Elopement. The rain had subsided and skies were blue filled with wispy white clouds as we left Monterey driving down the coast of Big Sur. Cassie and Justin had traveled from New York with just parents and siblings to elope to Ventana Big Sur, a luxury resort tucked alongside the mountains […]

A Folktale Winery Wedding. We were over 150 miles away, glued to the news, listening about the fire had just torn through Northern California’s beautiful Napa Valley. On what felt like a normal day, the sun rose with an unusual bright orange glow, beautiful yet heartbreaking. We knew this gorgeous sunrise was at the expense […]

  A beautiful southern California San Diego wedding. Who knew meeting these two would turn into such a friendship! We met Chris and Lauren a few years ago when they visited our area while reuniting with collage friends. Even though they now lived in southern California, they wanted an engagement session captured along the beautiful […]

We went from “We don’t have enough time”, “We always feel so rushed”, “We could have done better”, to “That was the smoothest wedding we’ve ever shot!”, “We had ample time for everything we needed – plus more!”, “Everyone was incredibly happy with how smooth the entire day went!”. How? Simply by learning from our mistakes […]

2017 was the year for breathtaking florals and we worked with some of the best of the best floral designers! This is one of those posts were we so excited to share because you can scroll and scroll and only see the most beautiful works of floral art. I mean come on, who wouldn’t want […]

Wedding Chicks Feature. We couldn’t be more excited to share with you that Paul and Rachel’s wedding has been featured on Wedding Chicks,  a stylish wedding blog with wedding inspiration, wedding ideas, for the modern bride! From Amy & Jordan: We’d been looking forward to Rachel and Paul’s McCormick Home Ranch wedding for as long as we can remember; and, […]

A gorgeous InterContiental Clement wedding! We had always dreamed of shooting this venue! Overlooking the ocean, this Monterey luxury hotel is located right in the heart of John Steinbeck’s historic Cannery Row. New venues bring out an excitement and a creativeness like no other! As we walked in Laura’s bridal suite, the sounds of laughter and […]

Planning. Budgeting. Executing. We’ve now been in our bride’s shoes (Badgley Mischka’s to be exact!), on the other side of the lens, planned and executed a wedding! It’s official (nearly 5 months official), Rachel and Paul are married!!! When our brides say planning a wedding is a full time job on it’s own, we now […]

A Pebble Beach Wedding, forty years in the making. That’s right, 4-0! Plus, the groom is the real life James Bond! Okay, not the real life James Bond, but if he wasn’t a fictional charter, Mike would be the real James Bond. Serious! He worked for the CIA for over 30 years before becoming Microsoft’s […]

When Law Meets Order. It’s either a spin off of our favorite show SVU or a new movie we have to go see. How about the theme of a wedding! Jenny packed up her belongings and moved to New York to practice law. Who would have though she would fall head over heels for Joe, […]

A Country Club Wedding. The forecast called for a nearly 90 degree wedding day, so we prepared for hot one! For a photographer that means plenty of water, sunscreen, and your hair up! We’ve made the mistake of leaving our hair down too many times, and by the end of the day looking as if […]

A Folktale Winery wedding is one of our new favorite venues! A getting ready chateau that resembles something you would find on the hillside in Tuscany, a ceremony location tucked in between rows of vineyards, and crawling greenery scaling the buildings and fences. It definitely resembles a fairy tale! We spent the morning with Erin […]

This Big Sur anniversary session left us breathless! Rachel and I don’t run into to many other mother daughter photography teams like us, then we met Tiffany & Mackenzie in Charleston last year, and we were immediate friends! How strange is it that Tiffany and I are the exact same age, as are our girls […]