Happy Thanksgiving to you all! With the close of Black Friday and the beginning of the Turkey coma weekend, we wanted to share with you our final wedding of the year. Before the tryptophan really kicks in and this weekend becomes a blur of football and leftovers, you’ll want to stay awake for these two and vote on some of their favorite moments! *sidenote…Do you like that new feature? Voting on images? We LOVE it, and we know Vania and Nick will too if you click to vote on your favorite image!*

Like I said, this was our final wedding of 2010, and we honestly could not have been more blessed with such an amazing couple. Vania and Nick are the nicest, sweetest, and most quietly in love couple you’ll ever meet. In just spending 5 minutes with them, I could already picture them growing old together and sitting on a park bench. And I mean that in the most flattering ways. It’s a deep love, it’s the caring spirits they both have for one another, it’s in the way Nick feels so at home in his wife’s arms, and it’s in the way Vania can instantly have the biggest smile on her face the moment she locks eyes with the love of her life. It’s “Big Love” as we would call it. And we couldn’t get enough of it.

Surrounded by their loving family and friends, they were married atop the hill at the Summit House in Fullerton and amidst a showering of rose petals, they began their lives as husband and wife.

Vania and Nick, you began your journey in life together with such an amazing day. Thank you so much for not just trusting Erin and I to be there to capture it, but thank you also for letting us catch a glimpse of how wonderful you two really are together!

We know you’ve been so patiently waiting for a peak at some of our favorite moments; we are so excited to share even more with you!

It’s a wedding like yours that makes our hearts so full of gratitude in reflecting on this past year. We wouldn’t have wanted to end 2010 any other way, or with any other couple! Thank you both so much!

We hope you enjoy and Erin and I can’t wait to show you more!

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So we were hoping this blog post would be coming to you from our brand new blog, but alas, we’re still populating it so thank you for your patience! We can’t wait to show you!

*** EDIT: THE NEW BLOG IS UP! AS YOU CAN SEE!! ***

BUT, if we were to pick a couple who we’d like to end this phase of our blog with, it’d no question be Natalie and Ryan. In so many ways it just doesn’t get any better than these two. Young, hopelessly in love, and are truly at home in one another’s arms! They chose a place in San Juan Capistrano that no doubt most of you know is one of our favorite places to shoot; the San Juan Mission! We love it for so many reasons, and when you add Natalie and Ryan into the mix, you kind of just have to sit back and watch something incredible happen! Having never seen these two in their element together, it was so great seeing them laugh, goof around, and really just be the fun-loving couple that they are. And in the same breath, they can turn on the hotness and bring together some fantastic looks! More importantly though, their love radiates from every image no matter what. We just feel lucky to  be the ones who get to share it with you! And for now, these will have to hold you all over until we get to document their amazing wedding next year at Strawberry Farms in Irvine (I know, we wish it were sooner too). haha.

But until then, it’s our pleasure to share some of our favorite and sizzling moments with Natalie and Ryan!

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The second these two pulled up, we knew we were in for a great time! They had bikes, they had outfits, and they had a surfboard. We were in heaven! To top it all off, Kimberly and John were absolute naturals! We didn’t even need to say a thing and they plopped down on a park bench and had the time of their lives. Erin and I looked at each other with a look that said “this is great!” and we just captured the moments as they happened! A rare thing when it comes to engagement sessions, and so we felt so blessed to have been found by a couple like Kim and John. We’re so excited for their wedding next year at the beautiful Rancho Las Lomas and wished the sun would never set during our time with them. We had so much fun!

And if the bikes, the outfits, and the surfboards weren’t enough, John led us to a place we had never been before in Laguna. A “secret” beach that maybe isn’t so secret to the locals, but in my 25+ years living in Southern California I’d NEVER been there! So thank you Kim and John for not only being absolutely amazing, but for also sharing with us a location that will forever be “Kim and John’s beach!”

We simply had the best afternoon with you both and really cannot wait for your wedding! You two make it so easy to love what we do!

Here are a few of our favorites, we hope you enjoy!

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