Borany + Edwin || Destination Wedding Part 1 || Siem Reap, Cambodia

This has been a post i’ve been looking forward to sharing and even though I’ve been posting more of our Hawaiiann wedding recently, I wanted to put a special mention out to my couple who flew us out to Cambodia before I move forward with our next destinations.

Borany and Edwin welcomed us into their family with open arms, took care of us for the entire say, surprised me with 3 extra days of paradise and made sure we knew exactly where to go and what to do in Cambodia and in our stopovers at Shanghai. We spent the first four or five days just enjoying ourselves in the new environment, while Bo’s dad toured us around different sites, historical monuments, and cultural experiences. Bo’s dad is a professor at the college there and he had a lot of insight into what we were seeing. He even shared with us his personal experiences. Dom, Earl, and I snapped photos of everything around us, you’ll see below where he tells his story of how he fled to America during the Khmer Rouge years.

Through these morning excursions and the nightly celebrations, our crew got to really know Bo and Ed’s family and friends, which really is the best part of destination weddings. We didnt miss a beat, we felt like we were among family, and we were able to document alot of it as both visitors and friends. I can’t thank these two enough for the experience and am glad they’ve brought me in.

This will be the first of two posts, These next 60 or so photos were taken in the first 4 days in Cambodia of our surroundings and the experiences we had with Bo, Ed, and their family. I edited these immediately and shared them on our photocircle the next day. The next post will be just the wedding day itself, I couldn’t justify sticking all of what this is into just one post. Hope you love these! Please enjoy.

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Tina + Hilton || Wedding Teasers || Four Seasons Oahu, Hawaii

Had an amazing week in Hawaii with Tina and Hilton and the team and spent alot of it enjoying both the local and tourist spots. I got lots of sun and spent alot of time with Tina and Hilton’s family through the week. The best part of destination weddings is how close we get to everyone each day. It was the same in Cambodia and it’s the same in Hawaii, lots of love, lots of laughs, and lots of beautiful photos, check out these teasers!

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Paula + Joshua || Wedding Photos || Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa

A little behind on my blog posts, but I’m starting to see that my blog is just a portfolio of work more than it is an updated journal of the weddings I shoot. So even though alot of friends and family of the couples I’m posting are looking at each wedding post individually, updating this isn’t the most necessary thing anymore and Instagram has taken over.

Either way I’ll still be posting each wedding here so our couples can see an unbiased look at ALL our weddings. I make it a point to always do something special and show up 150% at each wedding so that way I’m always proud to showcase our work. It makes me really sad when I see photographers hide their work because they weren’t happy with what they got. No matter where you are, capturing romantic moments and love all around, should be possible wherever you are.

So here is another wedding post, one from a couple I absolutely love and whom gave me so much time to shoot with them, (special thanks to Sharon of Sweetest Love Events who did the fastest most efficient flip of a room ever), and Tina Luong of LuongLasting doing the Hair and Makeup, who I work with ALL THE TIME because she’s literally the best at what she does and makes a cameo in here :). It was a super easy day and we got tons and tons of moments. Since i’m posting this so late, I know i’m missing so much more thanks and memories, but i’ll let the photos speak for themselves. Please enjoy!

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