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    We are a husband+wife wedding photography team based out of Southern California . We also travel to places far and wide to capture beautiful and quirky moments for our clients.
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Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek

Rincon Beach Club in Santa Barbara was such a great venue for Aimee and Derek’s beach wedding! To quote Aimee: “Derek and I are both very casual, laid-back people who love the beach and everything about Carpinteria and Santa Barbara. I feel that Rincon Beach Club is different and more casual than a traditional wedding at a country club or hotel ballroom. The decor I’m planning on having will be more rustic/beach chic to help add to the casual intimate wedding I envision.” Nailed it! :)

Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek

Rincon Beach Wedding: Aimee + Derek
January 24, 2013 - 11:02 pm

Jennifer Simonds - LOVE these pictures! I'm getting so excited for our big day, can't wait, you and your honey ROCK!

January 24, 2013 - 8:39 pm

Dale Lempa - Wow, awesome colors. Great captures; I’m sure they will love these.

January 28, 2013 - 11:25 pm

Kellee Walsh - Absolutely gorgeous Marianne! I love the colours. Everyone looks so relaxed and happy too! Great work.

January 29, 2013 - 5:21 am

kong wai - Beautiful !! love the color so much

January 29, 2013 - 9:07 am

Elissa - This is such a beautiful wedding. I love beach ceremonies :)

January 29, 2013 - 8:34 pm

Kelsie Taylor - this wedding looks like so much fun! i love that push up photo!

January 29, 2013 - 10:07 pm

Gavin Farrington - So many awesome moments. Beautiful wedding, beautiful photos!

January 29, 2013 - 10:47 pm

Darin Collison - What a gorgeously captured beach wedding. Well done.

February 5, 2013 - 4:20 pm

JC Page - what an amazing wedding – so many wonderful compositions. Great light and fabulous color. You REALLY nailed this one. Great work!!!

Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave

 Sacred Sands in Joshua Tree has to be the winner of our most unique venue choice of the year award. As you will see in the photos below, Sacred Sands is out in the middle of the desert. Like, really out in the middle of the desert. True story: as we were parking the car Joe said “Wow! This place is really off the beaten path! I wonder if we will see any snakes or anything.” Not 15 seconds later we saw a snake making its way around the property fence! Don’t let that story give you the wrong impression though. Sacred Sands and Joshua Tree are absolutely gorgeous! It was especially perfect for Lindsey and Dave. They are a sweet, kind of reserved, creative, outdoorsy, adventure loving type of couple. So, a small, intimate, Joshua Tree wedding was the perfect choice for Lindsey and Dave’s wedding celebration. They also had the awesome idea of having their guests write wishes for them as a couple and attach them to a wish tree. At the end of the night they tossed the wishes into a fire and the resulting fire and smoke was a really cool and passionate metaphor for the wishes being released out into the world to take action. What a fun idea!

 

Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave

Sacred Sands Wedding in Joshua Tree: Lindsey + Dave
January 24, 2013 - 5:05 am

Dale Lempa - Wow, awesome captures. Great style.

January 24, 2013 - 3:02 pm

Brittany - Amazing location, light, details, and emotion. So so beautiful!

January 24, 2013 - 4:24 pm

Dustin Allison - Wow! Great set of photos, so many great moments captured!

January 24, 2013 - 11:27 pm

Alyssa Schroeder - I am just so in love with those sunset desert photos. I can hardly handle it. STUNNING.

January 25, 2013 - 11:49 am

dylan - this is perfection.. desert weddings are the best :)

January 25, 2013 - 12:41 pm

Leah Muse - Um, could this location be any more ridiculously gorgeous? Such a beautiful day.

January 25, 2013 - 12:58 pm

Kyle - This looks just like the north of Chile!

And wow, such stunning, romantic photos!

January 25, 2013 - 1:17 pm

Jim Murphy - Beautiful wedding. Great job capturing it. Love that wide shot of the couple in the desert.

January 25, 2013 - 6:20 pm

Kelsie Taylor - that dress is gorgeous, and you did a great job capturing the mood of the desert

January 25, 2013 - 6:33 pm

Shyann - Love your use of light and the couples venue choice!! :)

January 25, 2013 - 8:25 pm

Denise - These are done with grace and stunning lighting. Fantastic, inspiring work! What a beautiful family gathering too!

January 25, 2013 - 10:03 pm

Jessie - These are so beautiful! I love the shot of them walking down the highway! Happily Ever After!

January 26, 2013 - 2:01 pm

Johanna - I’m completely in love with this couple. From their choice of the place to get married in to the flowers in her hair. So awesome. Beautiful work. <3

January 28, 2013 - 1:52 am

Tenielle - These are so ridiculously beautiful, I cannot even begin to believe there’s a place as beautiful as that. Those sunshine lapped portraits are beyond, beyond breathtaking. Amazing!!!!!

February 4, 2013 - 12:11 am

Jenny GG - what a gorgeous location! love the shot of the family style reception table and the lights – nice work!

Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca

We have another rockin Maravilla Gardens wedding to post! It is absolutely one of our favorite places to shoot and we always have a great time there. This time we have Cassy and Chris who are so sweet, funny, happy, easy going and just a joy to be around (I mean Cassy and her girls had a dressing room dance party between the ceremony and reception, those are my kind of gals!) We had a great time getting to know them during their engagement session and even more fun with them on the big day. Their lovebirds wedding theme was a nod to their new last name (Bird) and was the perfect accent to the Maravilla Gardens grounds. You could really tell all day that they were so in love and just enjoying spending the day with the people closest to them. It was really so much fun to get to know their families and really they made us feel like family as we worked with them.

So here are some of our favorites from their wedding day!

Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca

 

More awesome Maravilla Gardens weddings can be seen here

Cassy + Chris: Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo Ca
January 18, 2013 - 12:06 am

Sherri Fuller - perfect

January 17, 2013 - 10:36 pm

Teresa K - Oh my goodness, your bride is so beautiful and you captured their day PERFECTLY!!

January 18, 2013 - 9:17 am

Jason Mize - Really great wedding here Marianne, I love your group shot poses! And then their portraits and first dance… killer!

January 18, 2013 - 9:23 am

Dale Lempa - Nice work: excellent coverage and unique ideas.

January 18, 2013 - 10:10 am

Joseph Delgado - Gorgeous colors here! The shot on the farm is priceless! Very beautiful couple as well. Great job!

January 18, 2013 - 2:50 pm

Cassie - Your work is amazingly inspirational – absolutely killer set of images. Wonderful!

January 18, 2013 - 2:54 pm

Chris - Great lighting during that reception. The portraits in the field are great stuff, too.

January 18, 2013 - 4:17 pm

Richard - I love the group photos by the barn, just beautiful. Is that a cabbage field?! How awesome!

January 18, 2013 - 5:37 pm

Kyle - Oh Marianne. You guys are exceptional.

And you photograph such exceptionally beautiful people too! Lucky!

January 19, 2013 - 12:00 am

caroline - these are all incredible but that first b&w portrait of her alone? WA WA WEE WA! Gorgeous.

January 21, 2013 - 8:28 am

Marian Majik - Great moments! I love how you captured the story of their day. Each picture tells about their love. Amazing!

January 21, 2013 - 10:33 am

Sean Dorgan - Great job, love the colors!