Long Beach &amp; Destination Photographer

Aug 11 2010

Long Beach Wedding | Hotel Maya & The Reef Restaurant | It’s all about the Vendors

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This past Memorial weekend was another busy day to photograph a wedding. Maria (who is my sis-n-law) married her long time friend Bryan, on a nice and sunny Saturday in Long Beach. Since this was a family wedding, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to stay focused on the photography. It doesn’t help when you have the cousins giving you shots of tequila to celebrate the new bride & groom. So as always, I asked my LBC friend Charla Brummel to shoot the wedding with me. Knowing I was going to be stuck with family, I let Charla take the lead on some of the photo sessions. She is great to work with and we have a similar style and vision with our shots. We also help each on different creative looks and perspectives.

We got to shoot the at the Hotel Maya for the first time and had a lot of fun with many different locations within the hotel. The Ceremony site was nicely setup by Commerce Flowers and another friend, Eng Tang of Glow Concepts. The make up was done by my wife’s co-worker and the hair style done by Theresa Garcia. Of course the music was beautifully performed by my good friend Tini Grey. So far Tini has sang for 3 of my family weddings and one more coming up.

It is great to know and work with these special vendors. It is also great to be their friend.

Getting Ready & The Couple 1st Reveal Location: Hotel Maya

Ceremony & Reception: The Reef Restaurant

Fine Linens: Glow Concepts

Floral Arrangement: Commerce Flowers

Wedding Cake: Rossmoor Pastries

Hair Style: Shear Rhythm Salon

Make Up: Veronica Del Hornio

Guitar Soloist: Tini Grey & Isle Entertainment

My Awesome 2nd Photographer: Charla Blue Photography (Some of the photos shown below were captured by Charla)

Theresa Garcia of Shear Rhythm Salon & Dance StudioCharla at work…Tini Grey singing “Beautiful As You”Sorry Charla… Uncle Bob trying to get the kiss.Charla getting The Shot…Charla’s shot… With Uncle Bob in the background again.

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Jul 28 2010

Los Verdes Wedding – James & Emily

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On July 11th, I had the pleasure of capturing James and Emily’s wedding at the Los Verdes Golf Course in Palos Verdes, CA. It’s also one of my favorite local golf courses to play. James, 6’4″ and Emily 5’4″ were a fun couple and their height difference made it even more fun to shoot. Check out some of their photos from the wedding day.

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Jun 19 2010

St. Regis Monarch Beach – Sunset Wedding

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Okay… It’s been while since my last post and I finally have time to catch up. I had the pleasure to 2nd shoot with my friend Brian Hamilton of SuiteM Photography at the St. Regis Hotel Monarch Beach in Dana Point. It was the first time for me to shoot a wedding there and from seeing images from my other fellow photographer friends, I knew this was going to be fun. It was a very small intimate family wedding for Niko and Karl. I think there were more people in the wedding party than guests. But Niko and Karl spared no expense on making their wedding look very beautiful. The bride’s dress was very unique and I can’t say much about the $1000.00 shoes. The floral arrangement was colorful.

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