Ceremony: St. Denis Church

Photos: Bowen’s Art Museum

Reception: Green Parrot Café

The Gentlemen!

The ladies!

Yes, she is expecting

I asked him to wink at me. Wink: Fail. Cuteness: Win!

Any reception that starts off  with a shot(s), is going to be a good reception

Photographically, this isn’t the greatest photo. But let me tell you! This one man band whose name is Danny held his own all by himself with a guitar and ukelele. He played amazing music! Anyone who listens to his music would agree. And you know he’s good when everyone (including me) went up to him to ask for a business card. Not only is he talented in singing and playing the guitar, but according to his business card he’s also a swing dance instructor and a gondolier. In case you don’t know what a gondolier is, it’s one of those guys who row a gondola (skinny Italian boats). His music can be found on myspace.com/dannymaika.

These next two photos are what I call brotherly love.

I love this guy, and I don’t even know his name. During his toast he said he cut his shoulder length hair just for Erwin. That’s love man.

This is my good friend Elaine! She’s Erwin’s sister and she’s doing her best not to fall apart emotionally while giving her toast.  Elaine and I used to take advertising class together, and we’d be big procrastinators in our homework, that’s how we got along so well.

The end of the mother and son dance.

I like this photo because he’s all up in there.

The guy wearing a fedora hat is the father of the groom. I don’t know many Asian dads that can pull off a fedora hat, he is the man.

The gentlemen in the pink shirt pulls up a grandma to dance on the dance floor. Shameless! and I love it.

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This lovely couple gave me some of my best engagement photos up to date. I’m very proud to present to you the wedding photos of Erwin and Betzy! This is part 1.

Ceremony: St. Denis Church

Photos: Bowen’s Art Museum

Reception: Green Parrot Cafe

You might not be able to tell but the dog has a little vest on. Nom nom nom.

Behind the dress, is the refrigerator. Inside the refrigerator is the milk. Betzy really likes milk.

Father of the bride on the right and little dude on the left.

The best bowl cut since Dumb and Dumber.

Betzy!

This of course is Erwin and his Entourage. A very fun bunch.

Here comes the bride…

Make a wish!

Part 2 Coming Soon with bride&groom shots, bridal party, and reception shots!

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I had a lot of ‘firsts’ in this engagement shoot.  It was my first engagement where it started out with some drinks at the bar.  Also my first engagement shoot with the girl ‘expecting’.  And lastly, my first time encounter with skid row when we drove through it. So this lovely couple was photographed at Union Station and LACMA (or as Erwin would say LAMCO)  Erwin was actually really nervous before and during the beginning the shoot despite his denying it, which is also the reason why we were at the bar first.  But, I really don’t think he looked awkward or nervous in any of his photos.  And I actually don’t know why he was conscious about his smile, as I told him ‘you smile just fine.” He looked perfectly fine in all his photos, as you can see.

My favorite photo out of all the ones we took is the second to last one, where Betzy is kissing Erwin in a vintage Porsche, because it has that really really cool 1960′s look to it.  As we were shooting at the LACMA there were a bunch of people there that seemed like they were a wedding party, due to the fact that there was a woman in a wedding dress and everyone else is in suits and dresses.  But apparently they said they were just a bunch of friends just hanging out, and one of the gentlemen allowed us to use their Porsche he said “you can do anything you want with it.” As a result, Erwin wanted to drive off in it.

The long engagement session ended with an mouth-watering dinner at Blue Dahlia’s which made my day. They make BOMB burgers. Thank you Elaine. I’m still thinking about those succulent and enormous patties as I write about this.

So let me explain the shot below.  Erwin works at the OC Register, and I thought it would be kinda interesting to have them read one, and it worked well because it was at Union Station.

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