The Gaylord

Hi guys, we want to share a new blog by Dee over at Murphy Deesign. Dee and I wanted to document our outings titled Field Trip. On our second installment, we visited The Gaylord Apartment, once a glamorous hotel in the golden era of hollywood, now a hidden gem in Los Angeles tucked away in Korea Town. Hope you have as much fun exploring The Gaylord as we have. Thanks for letting me tag along Dee :) If you like Dee's blog, please show her some love and like her page. Click here to read more about The Gaylord.

L.A.'s Snappiest Wedding Photographers

We are so blessed and honored to be featured on DailyCandy.com's L.A.'s Snappiest Wedding Photographers and we humbly accept their nod. There is no greater compliment than being featured amongst our industry peers. We want to congratulate everyone that was featured along with us : Joe Buissink, Puman Bean Photo, Fifty Foot Films, Bonnie Tsang Photography, Feather Love Photography, Annie McElwain, Rebecca fishman, Love Me Sailor, Robert Evans, and Sweet Little Photographs.

More info at DailyCandy.com

Picture Perfect Events 2012 Website Launch

We are so excited to help spread the word of Picture Perfect Events new website launch. Kelley Gin of PPE worked with her fabulous designer Tianyi Wang Goudey of Tiselle Letterpress + Design along with her team Christen and Jesse Cutrona. As a fan of graphic design, it was sheer joy to see the website's new design aesthetics laid out so gorgeously with so much attention to detail. Totally made our day! It felt like a scene from Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971 original version of course) when we were all gently gliding down the chocolate stream inside the factory and feeling so much emotion, love, joy, and happiness... moments like this can be experienced by all of Kelley's event. And landing on PPE's new website design gave me that same experience, I was like a kid in a candy store. I couldn't wait to get to the next page and wanted to click on every button to see what's behind it. We love the gold hues with the elegant crisp line element complimenting the modern typeface while juxtaposed with the script lettering so delicately. The delicate and simplicity of the design approach is confident and humble echoing Kelley's less is more philosophy gracefully. All of the design and photo coexist harmoniously within it's content like a soft beautiful dance between two ballet dancers being in love. PPE's website never had to prove it's strength, but the presence of Kelley's exquisite design aesthetic is always present throughout the website. What makes this website amazing is the fact that Kelley has managed to help transform and evoke that same excitement that a guest would feel at any of her events, and she sure made it happen with a big wow factor. Congratulations Kelley and wishing you continued success. Your endless hours of attention put toward this website has finally came into fruition. We are so blessed and humble to be a part of your photography team.

Jessica + Jamie's Costa Rica Tropical Wedding

Spring has just arrived and we wanted to share Jessica + Jamie's gorgeous Costa Rica wedding with everyone. We had the pleasure of spending a week with everyone in the wonderful and remote surf-friendly town of Playa Grande. The weather was amazing! This place is absolutely magical and mother nature blessed this wedding with the most perfect weather and lighting allowing us to capture J+J's memorable moments. Pura Vida!

Leah + Gene Featured on POWD

Yeah, another gorgeous wedding from one of our lovely client Leah + Gene got featured on PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com this morning.
Leah + Gene's beautiful wedding was held at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Arts. The day was filled with beautiful light, love, laughter and endless smiles and happiness. Plus a tons of treats for all of their guests. Days like this makes all of our hard work well worth the effort and we are so please with all of the beautiful moments we have captured on camera. Enjoy the blog and the wedding images.

The dream team:

Wedding coordinator: Kelley @ Picture Perfect Events

Wedding Dress: Lazaro at Klein Feld Bridal

Shoes: Badgely Mischka

Floral design: Lola Flowers

Bridesmaids Dresses: JCrew

Custom invitation design: Invited Ink via Etsy

Hair & Make-up: Theresa @ TH Makeup Design

Videographer: Loyd Calomay Films aka Red 5 Studios

Catering: Auntie Em's Kitchen

Wedding Cake: Auntie Em's Kitchen

Custom made hot air balloon cake topper: Anna Craft via Etsy

Venue: PMCA / Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Arts

Steven Lam Photography Featured on Style Me Pretty

We are so honored to have Style Me Pretty featuring Sheena + Eric's gorgeous destination wedding in Honolulu, Hawaii. Stay tune for more photos uploaded on this site.

Please click on the Style Me Pretty link above for more detail information about this gorgeous wedding in paradise.


Cheers!





The creative team:

Event Planning: Finishing Touch
Flowers: Yvonne Design
Cinematography: 10th Letter Media
Ceremony + Reception Venue: The Moana Surfrider
Invitations:Mr. Boddington 
Dress: Pronovias
Bridesmaid Dress: Amsale
Calligraphy: Neither Snow 
Favors:Whimsy & Spice

Jill Scott, Bring it On!

This month, our studio has been running at full steam creatively. By the look of things, it's probably not going to slow down anytime soon. We started the month with the release of YWD Magazine Fall/Winter 2011 issue hitting the news stand featuring our photography of these wildly creative out of the box wedding bouquet design ideas. Next up, we photographed a wedding on a yacht then flew over to Cabo, Mexico for a magical destination wedding.

Then I got a phone call from Hidden Beach Recordings telling me that they are releasing a new Jill Scott CD titled "from the vault". The CD will be featuring tracks that was previously recorded for her debut album but did not make it to the original release. I am sure this CD will be filled with gems. We were ecstatic to find out our iconic archived images of Jill Scott will also be accompanying this release...woot woot!

I remember back in 2000, when I was handed an advanced copy of "Words and Sounds Vol. 1" from Hidden Beach after our initial creative brief. I became an instant fan after listening to the intro track and was totally hypnotized by her beautiful and effortless vocals on "Gettin' in the Way", "A Long Walk" and "Brotha".

Being such a huge fan of Jill Scott music, I am honored to have the chance to meet and photographed miss Jill Scott for her first album "Who is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1". During the production of the photo shoot, I spend the whole prep day touring and location scouting the streets of Philly with Jill (which was alot of fun). We even visit her family in the neighborhood. When the album dropped, it hit double platinum and earned several Grammy nominations and eventually winning a Grammy Award for best urban/alternative performance.

With so much excitement and activities in and out of the studio, we are ready for many more blessing coming our way now. Bring it on!

Cabo Magical Wedding

This past weekend San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, a typically hot location got hotter than ever with Michelle and Richard's destination wedding. These two brought their New York chic aesthetic and sprinkled it all over Cabo starting with three stunning private modern villas as the main ingredient to their celebration. The pool side wedding ceremony was breath taking with the Pacific Ocean serving as the backdrop. At the reception, guests welcomed the newlyweds with sparklers as the couple took the dance floor for their first dance. The night ended on a high note with endless dancing under the stars. making this fabulous event memorable and magical.

The Cabo dream team:

Wedding coordinator: Karla at Karla Casillas Weddings & Events
Catering: Lazy Gourmet

Venue: Cabo Lifestyle Villas / Anne Lie Villa, Villa Serena, Villa Amanda

Jeanne + Russ Stunning Wedding

We just got back from an amazing destination wedding shoot this past weekend and was so stoked to see our photography featured on Picture Perfect Events' latest blog, yippie! We had so much fun photographing Jeanne + Russ romantic wedding at the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica. The day was filled with so much energy and excitement from the guests and the entire creative team behind the scene making things happen all under the guidance and vision of Kelley Gin at Picture Perfect Events. Enjoy these out takes from J & R's luxurious wedding celebration.

 

 

 

The creative team:

Wedding coordinator: Kelley @ Picture Perfect Events
Floral design: Fleuretica
Custom invitation design: Tiselle
Hair & Make-up: Theresa @ TH Makeup Design
Videographer: Living Cinema
Cake design: Vanilla Bake Shop
Ice Cream Sandwiches: Cool Haus
Venue: Hotel Casa del Mar

YWD Out Of The Box Bouquets photograph by Steven Lam

Yeah, YWD Fall/Winter 2011 issue is finally hitting the news stand this month. We had a great time shooting this beautiful story for Your Wedding Day magazine back in June with creative director Cathryn Vanbreene and Stylist Krista Jon at Seven-Degrees in Laguna Beach. We want to share these stunning non-floral fresh idea bouquet designs with brides to be. This is an amazing collection of unique bouquets showcasing so many wonderful concepts from vintage items to feathers and gemstones to seashells. We also have added additional out take detail photos featuring each bouquet to show the intricacies of these labors of true love. There were too many great photographs and we wanted to share it all with you. Lastly, we want to give a special thank you to Thea Hargrove, publisher of YWD for inviting us to be a part of the contributing team for this issue. We hope you will find these alternative modern bridal bouquet inspiring.

For more info, visit YWD Blog about this story and pick up a copy of YWD fall/winter 2011 for complete details.


Enjoy.

 

Our photograph featured on the table of content page.

Opening spread.

 

Vintage Flea Market Bouquet / $500 / Design by R. Jack Balthazar (previously featured on our blog Parker Palm Springs Bling.) Made with book pages, Scrabble pieces, crocheted details, fabric and button roses, vintage postcards, black and cream ticking ribbon, skeleton key.

What a Gem bouquet / $300 - $600 / Designed by Noaki Jewelry. Made with fabric hydrangea petals, rich pearl heirloom brooch, one-of-a-kind pearl and rhinestone estate pieces.

Handheld Harvest bouquet / $250 / Designed by Belle of the Ball Designs. Made with walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, cinnamon, curly willow, pheasant feathers, bird's net, chocolate ribbon.

La Boheme bouquet / $ (price upon request) / Designed by Dolce Designs Studio. Made with natural and white goose feathers, colorful brooches, delicate ostrich feathers.

Wild at Heart bouquet / $425 / Designed by Dandelion Ranch. Made with dried plants, feathers, kried king protea, pheasant feathers, dried loofah, rams head, kiwi branches, faded peacock feathers, lotus pods, dried rubrum luecadendron, dried mini safari sunset luecadendron, okra shells, pussy willow, grass bundles, dried pecans, eucalyptus pods, trumpet pods, palm cups, reindeer moss.

Succulent bouquet / $295 / Designed by Krista Jon, also the stylist for this fabulous story for YWD. No succulent description available.

This one is a bonus bouquet detail shot. Too bad this bouquet did not make it in the story but we also love this bouquet. Sorry we don't have the designer's info or materials. Still, a gorgeous creation with seashells, sand dollars, ribbons and gold buttons.