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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Ariadne and Nicholas were married in Pasadena, CA, where I pretty much grew up. Actually, Ariadne and I went to high school together so it was really fun to photograph her wedding in my old stomping grounds. We hit a number of different spots throughout Pasadena including City Hall for some portraits, before ending up at her parents' house for one of the most beautiful summer backyard weddings that Adm and I have been to. She and Nicholas live in New Jersey, and so Ariadne's mom did almost all of the planning and coordinating, and she just did a fabulous job. There were so many sweet details, like the colorful shawls hanging over the backs of the chairs that not only added to the decor, but also served as favors for guests to take home and use as the night went on, or the signs that instructed guests how to play games which were set up in the front yard. Everything about the wedding felt very natural and comfortable, and we could tell that a lot of thought and care had gone into trying to make guests feel welcome and at home, which is exactly how I remember Ariadne from high school. She was always calm and collected, and genuinely expressed her care for other people and what was going on with them.
I'm an only child, and for my whole life, I've been the youngest one on my mom's side of the family. That is, until a few weeks ago when my cousin 
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I met Jamie the last semester of senior year in high school, and although we only knew each other for half of a year before going our separate ways for college, we became close friends and have remained close throughout the years. I played softball competitively for a good 12 years of my life, and before going to UNC on a softball scholarship, I transferred the last semester of my senior year of high school from a private all-girls school in Pasadena to a public school with a top softball team in Tustin (all southern California). Jamie was my catcher at this new school, Foothill, so we quickly got to know one another really well and, along with our good friend Jess, became inseparable. Her family kind of adopted me for those four months so that every time I go for a visit, I feel right at home.
