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I'd been excited to shoot Reiko and Scott's wedding from the moment we met last year. I loved the way these two laughed together, what they wanted their wedding to represent and all the fun details they were planning. Plus they were having it at the Inn of the Seventh Ray, one of my favorite local venues.
Once again, it was hard for me to pick my favorites so make sure to view the slideshow below if you'd like to see more of their day. Congrats you guys!
Venue,coordinator, cake: the fabulous Kelly, The Inn of the Seventh Ray
Flowers: Garden Spells
Dress: MoriLee
Shoes: Converse
DJ: Paul Carganilla
Hair: Kat, Regis Salon
http://karenard.com/blog/2011/11/topanga-wedding-1.html
The super cute DIY Bride blog featured Rachel and Jonathan's engagement session over the weekend. Rachel did such a great job styling our fun shot that I'm glad it's getting published! Plus they are so stinkin' cute! Head on over to DIY Bride to see the full post.
http://karenard.com/blog/2011/11/featured-diy-bride.html
I always love meeting up with clients every year to do their holiday portraits. I love kids and it's great fun to see them again and how much they've grown. Last years session with this family was one of my favorites. {You can se it here}
This year it's all about Bay Blades. If you don't know what these are then you don't have boys! We did tear them away long enough to get a few snap shots with mom.
Gorgeous mom...
http://karenard.com/blog/2011/11/santa-monica-family-portraits.html
A short while back, Nam staged a surprise proposal to Trang at UCLA, were they went to school. It wasn't to be a quite stroll through the corridors where they first caught each others eye though. Oh no. Nam had something a little more special in store for Trang. He had secretly set up a Flashmob with maybe close to 100 people - half of them family, half total strangers - to surprise her as they came out of the student store.
I was originally going to dance this Flashmob but the wedding photographer in me couldn't get past the idea of actually shooting it. Nam was thrilled with the idea so I had the great fortune to capture such a joyous celebration of love and grab some portraits of just the two of them right after. Originally only our UCLA group were witness to the entire dance and proposal but after the video went viral on You Tube, they were interviewed on CNN! These two were so adorable together and so sweet... I'm so happy for you guys!
Trang was blown away when she realized this was for her when so many of their family and friends had joined in, including both sets of parents, little cousins and relatives from out of town!
... and then Nam joined in!
When the dance was over, we made a circle around them and 100-ish people got down on one knee when he did. Priceless! { I wish there were two of me so I could have taken pictures from the balcony to get the full effect of how many people were involved.}
After some time spent with family and friends full of hugs, well wishes and tons of photos, a little quite time to take it all in...
Thank you to the fabulous Staci, Conroe, choreography by Zakk Manzella, and the tons of amazing volunteers of Flash Mob America for making this happen for Nam and Trang. Make sure to watch the whole official video below to hear Trang's response to the proposal. {Other video captured by friends, the CNN interview, and local news coverage videos can all be seen here.}
http://karenard.com/blog/2011/11/surprise-flashmob-proposal.html
In honor of Halloween yesterday, the Modern Jewish Mitzvah blog featured David's Halloween Bar Mitzvah. How nice to get a Mitzvah featured instead of a wedding for a change! You can check out the whole post here.
http://karenard.com/blog/2011/11/featured-modern-jewish-mitzvah.html
beautiful...you captured the wedding perfectly
(11.17.11 - 04:40 PM)Just beautiful!
(11.17.11 - 07:35 PM)Simply amazing! Love's overflowing from the photos!
(11.30.11 - 06:57 PM)