Love in Santa Monica

I wanted to share our latest (third) very fun engagement session with our talented photographer friend Carol Ly. We love her fine-art photography style and her beautiful treatment of color. Of course, since she is also our good friend, it was simply a lot of fun just spending time with her and her handy assistant Jez down at Santa Monica pier.

One of my favorites! Just a plain wall we walked past in the alley, but a perfect backdrop!

I feel loved.

Santa Monica Pier was actually one of the places Will took me on our first date! After dinner Will brought me to the pier and we walked along the beach and then I challenged him to game of hoops at the arcade. Of course I won.

Brrrr. It was very cold and windy that day~ 

I'm too far away silly =P 

Aren't they beautiful? Thanks Carol and Jez! Be sure to see more of her work here. 

UCLA Engagement photoshoot

A wonderful little surprise dropped into our mailbox this past weekend: A disc of our engagement photos from our wedding photographer Gina at Pix of Life. Our photo session took place about a month ago on the UCLA campus, which we chose because we went to school there together and we really do think our campus is pretty beautiful.

It was quite interesting to experience a different type of engagement session, especially compared to our Taiwan experience back in March. I will share more details about our very interesting and memorable Taiwanese engagement photoshoot another time but in general our session with Gina was much more relaxed and natural while our photoshoot in Taiwan was very artistic and involved-- they made us feel like models but we had to work hard! Anyways, here are a few of my favorites from our UCLA engagement session~

I made this little heart-shaped pennant banner with some patterned card stock and ribbon. It was a fun prop but quite tricky to get a proper shot when the wind picked up! We actually have another photo shoot coming up this weekend with one of our photographer friends.... so believe it or not we're not quite done yet~ 

Valentine's Engagement Session

This coming weekend will be our engagement session with our wedding photographer Gina from Pix of Life! I've been getting lots of ideas and inspiration from various photo shoots including this dreamy Valentine's-day-inspired engagement photo shoot via Ruffled and Harwell Photographers

Stopped by Michaels yesterday and bought a bag of goodies that I can hopefully craft into some fun props for the photo shoot. It's going to be a busy week...