wedding: heather and randall

its so much fun to be a wedding photographer when the couple is as cool as heather and randall. we met them getting busy on the dance floor last year, at heather's sister's kirsten's wedding, and we were psyched when heather called us to do her wedding this year. randall is in the marine corps, and recently returned from a tour overseas, and we were so happy to see him return safely, and in plenty of time for their wedding.

heather and randall got married on a gorgeous saturday afternoon at the marine corps recruiting depot in san diego, and everything was just perfect. heather was a beautiful princess, in an amazing dress...




... and all her bridesmaids were so sassy it was easy to make them look good. check out heather's extremely sassy mom and aunt in this picture






and what can you say about a man in uniform? and ten men in uniform? enough said. james had a lot of fun with randall and his groomsmen, sharing marine stories and passing around the flasks.


randall was obviously psyched to be getting married that day, and heather looked amazing as she walked down the aisle with her father...





after the ceremony, we spent a few minutes with the happy couple, but didn't want to delay getting into the very fun party...









the cake was beautiful, and the dances were so emotional




heather and randall, thank you so much for letting us share your special day with you and your family, we truly feel like we are part of the family now. be on the lookout for wedding invitations to our big bash next year!!!

heather and randall: engaged!

we met heather and randall last year at heather's sister's wedding - i don't think randall left the dance floor all night, and both heather and randall loved the camera. so we were incredibly excited when they asked us to be their photographers for their wedding, this july at the marine corps recruit depot (mcrd) in san diego.


heather and randall met us at the hotel del on a very gray day, quite uncharacteristic in san diego. randall had just returned from 7 months overseas with the marine corps, so they were very excited when we asked them to make out for us.




we went for a little walk down the beach, to a deserted life guard station where things got a little steamier...

and then headed back to the del for some fun and playful shots...

heather and randall, we are so excited for your wedding, and are looking forward to a lot of amazingly beautiful and fun pictures.

alison and dave: engaged!

we got a great opportunity to meet alison and dave on a saturday afternoon, 2 days before dave was deploying for 6 months. they had driven down from lemoore for the weekend, to spend time with the family and deploy out of san diego.

dave and alison are getting married in january, in beautiful julian, ca. and we wanted to give alison some nice memories of dave while he was away. here are some of our favorite shots of the day...


dave, we wish you a safe return from your deployment and say thank you for serving our country. we can't wait for you to get home!

Weddings Revisited: Kim and Brian

Since we just launched our blog, we thought it would be fun to share all the weddings we did over the last couple years, in between posting our new stuff.

Kim and I went to Italy together with some girlfriends, and when she asked me to shoot her wedding, I was a little apprehensive, since photographing weddings is MUCH different than beautiful architecture. But Kim and Brian are SO attractive and their wedding party so awesome that everything turned out great. They got married on a beautiful February day at the North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, CA, right across the bridge from San Diego. We couldn't have been luckier to get to shoot such an amazingly beautiful couple at such a gorgeous location. Here are some of our favorite pictures:

And Kim and Brian are having a baby, so you'll have to check back soon for pictures of the new lil one.