Nimitz & Crystal's Engagement

We recently spent a wonderful afternoon with Nimitz & Crystal. They are very fun, outgoing and great to be around! We cannot wait for their August wedding. It was a semi-challenging shoot. They had some super cool ideas for their session involving friends and bikes. Nimitz loves to ride his bike and one of the extra special shots has everything to do with that! In fact, that one is so special it's not even ready for release yet!

We started things off at their house in Mira Mesa for the bike photos then scooted over to La Jolla Shores for the sweet sunset photos you see below. After that we headed to one of their favorite places, Extraordinary Desserts. Yum, yum!

It is a beautiful thing to capture the love between two people, and these two are about as cute as you can get. We will blog more later, but until then please enjoy these pre-Christmas teasers!

Gotta have that bike in there!

Favorite!

After an extraordinary meal at Extraordinary Desserts in Little Italy!

This is where Nimitz proposed to Crystal.

Blake & Brooke Engagements

These two lovebirds are tying the knot in November at Candellas in Coronado. We are excited to shoot at Candellas again. It is such an awesome venue for smaller more intimate weddings. Anyways, they decided to do their engagement session at Balboa Park. It is a marvelous location for any session due to its variety of scenery and overall massive size. We had a great time exploring the park with Blake, Brooke and their sweet dog Olive. These guys are just effortlessly cute. If they're this cute in regular clothes they'll be extra awesome all spiffed up for their wedding!

Isn't Olive just the cutest thing?

To get this shot John had Olive laying on his chest!

Adorable right?

Sassy expressions & heavenly lighting? Yes please!

Do you see Olive?

Alberto & Kara Engagements

We are so stoked for these two's October wedding at the Admiral Kidd Club. We recently had the opportunity to wander the Del Mar Fair Grounds with them and shoot some awesome engagement photos. We had the whole place to ourselves and it was absolutely amazing! We learned a lot about the grounds from our guide Brian and had a total blast. These guys are a ton of fun. They actually met at the fairgrounds, so it holds special meaning to them. It is so great when we can shoot at meaningful spots to our couples. Have I mentioned that we love doing engagements? It gives us a great opportunity to get to know the couple and get them comfortable with us and the cameras.

Two fabulous smiles! Jackpot.

We made these two kiss a lot, but I don't think they really minded.

I loved this series so much I just had to pick two!

As I took this shot I was singing "Love In An Elevator" in my head.

In honor of Halloween & Del Mar's haunted history we'll leave you with this shot of the ghosts of engagement present.