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I just loved Jack and Prima’s engagement album and how they used it as a sign in book!

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And here’s the cover! I love the pink wall with the dark grey baroque cover!

Here are the spreads!

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I had the pleasure of photographing Nahoko & Yoshiya’s wedding in March.  I just got done designing their album and I’d love to share some of my favorite spreads with you.  They were married that the beautiful La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes Estates.  Enjoy!

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I love designing wedding albums. I really enjoy putting the images together so that they tell the story of the day.  Here’s an album that I recently designed from a wedding at Spanish Hills Country Club in Camarillo.  All wedding albums are designed to be square albums.  Once the pre-design is complete you can select the design to be printed as a fine art matte book or a flush mount album.

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Here’s another wedding album!  I always call January and February album season.  The holidays are crazy for everyone and couples get a chance to sit down and make their album decisions.  Here’s one from Ashley and Mar’s amazing wedding in Solvang. The wedding was held at the The Royal Scandanavian and the pictures were taken at the Santa Ines Mission.  I loved Ashley’s details!  She has such great taste.  Also, check out the amazing photobooth they had. I begged Steve to make me one for our reception but no luck.  If anyone is thinking of a photobooth I say get one! They are the life of the party!

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Ashley + Mark | The Royal Scandanavian | Solvang, California

Cover Design: Swiss Chocolate leather with a 3 in square image

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The wedding album has been designed! Exciting stuff!  Kim and Bill’s wedding album has been designed as a 10×8 horizontal thick coffee table album. This album will match their engagement album perfectly!  They had the most beautiful wedding and I hope this album does it justice.  It was so held at Firestone Crossroads Estate in Los Olivos.  I love photographing weddings in the Santa Ynez wine country.  The is nothing like a vineyard wedding with the warm Santa Ynez sun.

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View Wedding Blog | Firestone Vineyard Crossroads Estate |Los Olivos, California

After designing Kim and Bill’s wedding album I couldn’t believe that I had never blogged their engagement album.  Better late then never!  Here it is in all it’s glory.  Kim and Bill had an amazing engagement session starting at Union Station in Los Angeles.  I love Union Station, it’s such a step back in time.  We got some fun stuff in the station.  Bill is a USC alumni so going to campus was just a must. I love what we got there. The lighting was amazing and the architecture is beautiful.  We designed this engagement album as a sign-in book.  All their guests signed it as they entered the wedding!

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Kim + Bill | Union Station & USC | Los Angeles, California

This wedding album is designed as a 12×9 thick coffee table album.  I designed this one in particular to match their engagement album.  The two go perfectly together!  Alisa and Kelly got married at the Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara.  The groomsmen did some portraits at the Santa Barbara Mission and the girls went to the Santa Barbara Court House, Sunken Gardens.  The ceremony was on the rooftop of the Canary hotel and the view was amazing!  You could see all of downtown Santa Barbara and the artistic spanish tile roofs.  It was breathtaking!  We headed back over to the Sunken Gardens for family, bridal party and Alisa and Kelly’s portraits.  The Santa Barbara Court House is one of my favorite places to photograph.

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I’m so excited about the sample engagement album that I’m about to order.  This engagement album is designed to be a sign-in book for the wedding. As you can see this album has tons of white space for fun and loving notes from all of your guests.  The album is going to be printed up as a coffee table album with really thick fine art matte paper.  The colors just pop out on this paper and the black and whites look so rich and warm.  I’m so in love with these albums.  And the best thing is you have a book to  remember your engagement pictures with lots of nice words from your family and friends.  This album will sit on your coffee table for years to come.

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Here’s the fun cover!

the inside pages

I just finished ordering my sample album of Jennifer and David’s amazing wedding at Firestone Winery in Los Olivos. This winery is amazing! The weather in August up in Santa Ynez is perfect. We took some images in the Firestone barrel room as well as out in the Vineyard. The reception was held outside in the Firestone winery courtyard under the stars. It was perfection! For the album I wanted a cover that felt modern and vintage at the same time. I designed the cover in a distressed sepia to be printed on a metal cover. The accent leather is going to be a “biker chic”, which is a really nice blend between black and dark brown. I wanted to keep the album design clean and simple. Please enjoy the samples!

Here are some of my favorite spreads!

Jenny and Pakin’s wedding album design is ready! I had such a fun time designing this album. They had the brilliant idea to get married in Maui and have their reception at home. This album is just for the reception. We did some amazing portraits at Pasadena City Hall and the headed over to 888 Seafood resturant for the reception. I love clean simple album design. No keylines or crazy colored backgrounds. Just something classic that will still look good 25 years from now.

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