Noopur & Corrado's wedding

It was so beautiful down in Mexico!

Noops had several beautiful outfit changes over the course of 4 days.

Her mom and Corrado's mom were meeting for the first time, and they were basically twins. It was so cute!

Zameer hosted the Sangeet...but Noops's niece Sahana stole the show.

Loved seeing all my gorgeous Asian ladyfriends who I haven't seen since Ibiza!

This gold outfit of Noops's was probably my fave.

So cute!

On the actual wedding day, Corrado rode into the beachside ceremony on a horse.

It was totally epic.




The ceremony itself was super pretty too.

So beautiful!

Awwww these besties are for life.

Noops had another outfit change for the reception. And then for late night she changed into this sparkly number. It was sooo much fun. These are all the pics I processed for posting on instagram so this is all you get. For now. Maybe.

Congrats Noops and Corrado!!!

Then early this morning (Sunday) I hopped in a cab to catch an early flight to Grand Cayman (via Miami UGH).

It SHOULD be only an hour flight if it were direct...Cancun and Cayman are real close. But alas, it is not and involved a full day of traveling.

I've arrived though! And ready for Engage14 to begin!!!

South France Wedding!!!

So on Wednesday night I flew JFK to Nice. 

I got the global upgrade that cleared literally 3 second before I was going to board. 

At first it said first class had checked in full and then just as I was about to hand the lady my ticket I saw my initials disappear off the Upgrade List on the screen hanging over the gate and I SQUEALED.

If I'm going be totally honest, I kind of don't like the semi-new first class "cubbies" because when my seat goes all the way flat my feet get jammed into the cubby and there's nowhere for me knees to go...but totally a first world first class problem. I'll take what I can get.

I got lots of work done and a little nap in (it was a red eye) and we landed in Nice around 11am Thursday.

Then I picked up my little rental car, a cute little Mercedes C-Class (I have to have the car for the next two weeks so I figured I'd treat mah self) and we cruised along the coast to Beaulieu Sur Mer, site of our wedding festivities.

Rehearsal/Welcome Dinner took place at this cute little museum-y event space right on the water in Beaulieu.

There were lots of tasty french appetizers. This one though was quite deceiving. It was looked like a meatball or some warm teriyaki chicken skewers, but NOPE it was cold and slimy tuna and veal. TOGETHER. YUCK. 

 Love my little bride and groom!

Also bumped into some other old friends-of-friends like Sasha who, along with bride Lindsay, grew up with our Felixfriend!

A lovely lovely evening. 

Wedding day (Friday) prep took place at our host hotel, La Reserve de Beaulieu...this place is prettttty epic.

Getting ready took place in a massive suite.
 

And we did "first-look" pics right on the ocean...

And then the ceremony/reception site was high up in the hills of Villefranche overlooking EVERYTHING. It was EPIC.

Anyone who's been around me while I take pictures knows that I'm usually able to get pretty natural smiles out of people by simply telling them to laugh at each other. But there's always one person in a group that's TERRIBLE at it and busts out some crazy maniacal laugh and ends up looking ridiculous. Let's see if you can pick her out of this group....

Loves a fancy getaway vehicle!

And this sunset at the Chateau where we had dinner and dancing was EPIC.

They hadn't planned to have their first dance until much later...but I made them fake it for the picture.

And then the dance party was nutz and people got wasteyface.

#Coozyhand #Triplechin #Limbo

#Wasteyface #Boobstare

#Wasteyface #Marshmallowfail

#ChocoFondue #FondueFace #Wasteyface

#Shotgunning

Any wedding where I end up spanking a bridesmaid with a blow-up balloon-guitar at the end of the night is a pretty good wedding...

And then my camera got commandeered.

Soy much fun!

Congrats Lindsay and John!!!!

Tahoe Wedding!

Last weekend I went to Tahoe to shoot a fabulous wedding that I booked after meeting the bride and groom at Sam & Aliisa's New Orleans Wedding back in January.

I flew out on Thursday and it was a crazy travel day. The airport was packed but I had received my upgrade about a week prior so I was good to go.

As I was about to board though, the gate agent made an announcement that the flight was oversold and they needed volunteers to take a later flight through Salt Lake City for a $600 travel voucher (which is basically cash for me since I buy so many plane tickets anyway). Without even thinking about it I surrendered my ticket. $$$$

I did work for about 5 hours in the lounge and then hopped on my flight to Salt Lake.

Once in Salt Lake I headed to my connecting flight to Sacramento and AGAIN they needed volunteers for an oversold flight!

So I gave up my ticket again and got another $400 voucher and went to the Salt Lake Lounge and did more work. It was a SUPER productive day. AND I made $1000!

I stayed overnight in Sacramento with cousin Charleen and Tim and their kiddos. Then picked up Allan around lunchtime Friday (he happened to be free so he came out to shoot with me) and we drove 2 hours up to beautiful Tahoe for the rehearsal dinner.

Dinner was lakeside at this DELICIOUS restaurant called the West Shore Cafe.

I took the bride and groom down to the "beach" and did a quickie engagement shoot.

Then we watched the gorgeous sunset as we sipped cocktails and ate delicious whores de orves.

Random coincidence. Liz (below) was also a guest at Sam & Aliisa's NOLA wedding. And at the time was totally single and caught the bouquet in the bouquet toss.

She's now dating the Tahoe bride's brother and they are the cutest couple and I hope I shoot their wedding because I'm sure it will also be fabulous.

Love this patio setup!

Wedding day we got ready at the venue. The bride's parents have a home in this private community of gorgeous lakeside summer homes.

The living room was decorated with stuffed geese so I just had to get this unusual shot. :-)

Then Alex and Steve did a first look and exchanged private vows before the ceremony.

It was a beauuutiful venue.

Photobomb!!!!

The ceremony was beautiful.

Woooo!

And of course there was a beautiful sunset.

There was lots of beautiful furniture set up and a giant tent.

The dance party was fun!

Thanks Allan for snapping these great photos of me at work!

Best job ever!!!!