Early fall wedding in Malibu, California at Calamigos Ranch. If I just wrote a normal blog post about how Sherri and Mat's wedding at Calimigos Ranch in Malibu was amazing and what an awesome couple they are I would be leaving out a huge part of the story. Don't get me wrong, Sherri and Mat really are great and super fun together. I even think that Sherri partially hired us because of our dog Kiki and that makes me love her a little more. At this point it is important to note that Sherri is also a wedding photographer.

When you're hired by another wedding photographer to photograph their wedding, it is actually really flattering, but let me tell you, the pressure is on. I would never do less than my all for any of my brides, but when another photographer is going to be looking at themselves in your work, it adds an extra layer of anxiety.

It's at times like these where I feel really lucky to have Adm by my side. The majority of Sherri and Mat's wedding happened right as the sun was going down, and so Adm lit four locations for their wedding: the ceremony and receptions sites as well as two portrait locations. Our final portrait location (at the carousel), was actually so dark that I had to have Adm hold up my cell phone in front of Sherri and Mat's faces in order to focus. He would then run out of the frame, and I would point that camera where I thought they were and click the shutter. While we're used to shooting at night a lot, there's usually some light around, like street lights, so I can see my subjects, but this was definitely a first where it was so dark that I couldn't see what/who I was photographing.

All in all, it was a fun and challenging wedding with lots of great people in a beautiful and intimate setting at Calamigos Ranch.

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