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We are so proud and humbled to find out the beautiful succulent bouquet from Darlene & RJ's wedding is featured on Best of 2016: Aisle Perfect Wedding Bouquets. The gorgeous bouquet is image 5 on the article. To see more of Darlene & RJ's stunning wedding click here.
I really don't know how we totally missed posting Darlene & RJ's wedding from our 2016 season. But I guess better late than never right?
This post was originally featured on Aisle Perfect titled "Traditional Meets Modern Los Angeles Wedding"
We've re-published the blog's text below:
Today’s beautiful real wedding has some of the most gorgeous details we’ve seen. Let’s just say if this post we’re Pinterest, you’d be pinning every single image 🙂 Darlene and RJ incorporated traditional Filipino elements like using a veil, cord, coins and a money dance into their wedding but really wanted their modern style to shine. Green is Darlene’s favorite color, so she wanted to used different shades of green throughout the wedding. “I loved the idea of having non traditional florals, like air plants and succulents,” said Darlene. “Meg from the Little Branch did an amazing job and even used hops in our arch and other arrangements!” For the escort cards, Darlene’s brother-in-law made a large wooden frame with wires. They asked their guests to take their escort card and replace it with a Polaroid picture of themselves. Such a great idea! Another detail we loved? The flower girls carried balloons down the aisle.
At the reception, the couple hired a singer to entertain the guests as they arrived. She also sang during the ceremony. Their favor table featured one of Christy of Orange Blossom Special Events’ beautiful signs and shelves that they assembled ourselves. “My bridesmaids helped to replant the succulents into mercury candle votives we found,” said Darlene. “Our cake toppers were also clay love birds made by our friend.” During the reception they used Eventstag to display a live feed of Instagram pictures their friends posted with using their hashtag. It seems this beautiful couple missed no detail in planning their special day, and it certainly looks like it was a day to remember 🙂 Take a look at some of their gorgeous wedding photos, beautifully captured by Steven Lam Photography:
The dream team:
Planner: Orange Blossom Special Events//Musician: Liz Fohl //DJ: RedShoe//Florals: The Little Branch //Venue: Skirball //Videographer: DP Weddings//Chiavari Chair Rentals//Hair and makeup: Kelly Zhang //Photobooth: Hashtag Photo Booth//Cake:Cakes by Rumy
We are honored to be listed as one of Los Angeles's top wedding photographers by Expertise.com.
Wow, we are so jazzed about this wonderful accomplishment and it could not have come at a better time than during Thanksgiving week. We are grateful to be a part of this amazing list of talented LA wedding photographers.
More importantly, we are thankful for all of our wonderful, kind, and awesome clients that we had the pleasure of photographing. We are honored that they all have entrusted us to document one of their biggest life moments.
This is what Expertise has to say about us…”Steven Lam is one of our favorite lifestyle and photojournalistic LA wedding photographers. He brings a unique combo of industry experience ranging from professional celebrity shoots to intimate wedding experiences, and has done it all from green eco weddings to destination weddings in Hawaii, Costa Rica, the Mexican Riviera, and up and down California. He’s also been the photographer for Jill Scott’s Grammy award-winning album.”
Click here to check out Expertise Top Wedding Photographers in Los Angeles.
We love Lindsey + Jac's beautiful wedding in Laguna Beach. They flew from the east coast and chose Laguna as their destination for their beautiful wedding. Shooting this couple was a pleasure, their love shines through. Moments like this is why we love being a wedding photographer. The light, the organic len's flare (no filters) and the warm smile toward each other in this magical moment pretty much says it all...Love and happiness.
We've made it on The Overwhelmed Bride's The Bride List. This list is a hand selected pre-approved top wedding vendors to help the overwhelmed bride during their wedding planning in search for their ideal and most trusted wedding vendors. We are honored to be a part of this talented bunch of wedding vendors. Excerpt from TOB "We have researched, background checked, and ensured each of these vendors is highly recommend by many of their past brides, so you can rest assured that you're in great hands with any of the brides list member..."
We are so honored to be the official wedding photographer of Tanya Stein & Violet Palmer's bling wedding yesterday on August 1st, 2014. The wedding was a star studded event filled with so much love for the lovely couple.
Violet Palmer, who in 1997 became the first female to referee an NBA game, has announced that she is gay and is marrying her longtime partner, reports the Associated Press.
Palmer married celebrity hair stylist Tanya Stine in Los Angeles. The couple has been together for 20 years.
Palmer told the AP that she came out to her fellow NBA referees in 2007, several of whom will attend her wedding.
"This is actually the big formal coming out," Palmer said. "We are saying to the world, to everyone, here's my wife of 20 years. This is the big coming out."
Palmer refereed the 2014 NBA All-Star game in February, becoming the first female in any of the four major U.S. sports to officiate an All-Star game.
She has also refereed for both the NCAA and WNBA.
Clearly this was a special wedding celebration not just for Tanya & Violet but also for the LGBT community and California's newly passed gay wedding law. We are proud to be a witness at such an historical event and movement.
Enjoy Tanya & Violet's wedding ring image. We hope this will help bring more wedding inspiration to your big day.
Cheers!
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Priscilla + Jesus E-Session shoot in La Jolla.
Photos of Aston's doljanchi. Doljanchi aka Dol is a Korean tradition that celebrates the first birthday of a baby. Isn't Aston adorable? Congratulations Jediah + Stephen.
Hello, check out our newly re-designed website featuring Bree + Andrew's destination wedding in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Love our new logo design by Masha Kupets Navarra of Plastic Palmtree Inc
Breanne + Andrew's Riviera Maya Wedding Feature on Australia's Cosmopolitan Bride We are so happy to find out Breanne + Andrew's wedding just got featured in Australia's Cosmopolitan Bride. When we got our initial email from Australia's celebrity/TV presenter Breanne Bergs inquiring about our wedding services, we had no idea what we got ourselves into. As we started to talk more with Breanne via email of course, we got really excited about her wedding visions. Starting with the intimate wedding location at Al Cielo and with an intimate guests list consisting of just their closest friends and family member, we knew this event was going to be an extraordinary wedding event with it's low key setting yet gorgeously done up. We had a blast shooting B+A's wedding in the Riviera Maya locale. The caribbean water was the perfect backdrop for the wedding shoot and the images was brilliant!
