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Good evening everyone,

The forecast showed that Santa Ana winds will be blowing into Los Angeles for the next couple days and the first night already caused quite a stir in the city. Aside from trees getting blown down by 80 mph winds, multiple power outages happened in difference sectors of Los Angeles and Pasadena. I hope everyone is safe and comfortable in their homes.

Now back to my next wedding entry! My childhood friends, Catalina and Wilson, hosted their destination wedding at Caty’s hometown of Modesto! Since this was the first of our friends to walk down the aisle, everyone traveled up north to enjoy the festivities! Even though Danny was part of the wedding party, he still wanted to be a wedding photographer! It was an interesting act to follow, but the wedding photos that Danny and I pulled out was well worth the juggle. While I followed Caty in the morning during her makeup session, Danny and the boys horsed around at their hotels and photographed everything along the way. There were a few interesting side notes from this wedding that made it so memorable. There were a few hiccups throughout the wedding, but we all laughed it off. The most memorable event was when we all were in a rush to the reception hall, Wilson’s best man locked the keys in the car and had to call AAA to jimmy the car open. Fortunately, our wedding couple and the rest of the party made it to the grand entrance just in time!

The wedding party had matching colors all the way down to their socks. Black chucks was a nice touch too.

No gang signs please

After the wedding was over, our entire group jumped in for a fun picture! I was tempted to photoshop myself into this wedding photo for fun later on. =D

With the spare time, we made a pit stop to a local park for their wedding photography session.

Of course, boys will be boys.

After this wedding picture in the fields, this was when Wilson’s bestman (Phi) locked the keys in the car!

As a nice wedding gift, Wilson’s family invited dragon dancers to kick start the wedding reception after their grand entrance.

Little kid is going to hate me in the future, but this picture was too good to pass up.

Danny and the boys’ own impression to poke fun of that poor kid.

As a tradition in our group, for every wedding we took a picture with our ties looped around our heads. Since I was behind the camera the entire day, I just had to jump in this photo!

One last photo of the crew before the wedding concluded.

Congratulations again, Caty and Wilson! You two set the new chapter in our group…I suppose this means we are all getting older, but we can always be children at heart!

Cheers,

Doug – Contact Me!

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Good evening,

The cold breeze is rolling into Los Angeles, so I hope everyone is bundled up nice and warm. Weather like this reminded me of when Danny and I photographed Tracy and Danny’s wedding in Pasadena. We kick started their wedding at 6 in the morning during winter season in Los Angeles and we were a bit under dressed. Fortunately, there were so many fun events to photograph during their wedding that we did not really think much about the temperature. Although everyone was a bit chilled in the morning, the bridesmaids had plenty of “warm up routines” for the groom and his boys before Danny can receive his bride!

One of the more interesting games that Danny had to play was he had to eat a whole bitter melon to signify that even after their wedding, they can rough out the bitter and sweet times. Either way, it made an AWESOME wedding photo!

The Art of War. I thought it was a neat shot for wedding rings. What do you thing? =P

Now that is a cool photo to laugh about later…nothing but curling irons.

After Tracy’s traditional Chinese wedding tea ceremony, we headed to Danny’s place for the Thai water ceremony.

With spare time, we drove around Pasadena and found a nice patch of grass for our wedding photography session.

This group of people are crazy Rock Band fanatics!

I hope you all enjoyed their wedding photos because we definitely enjoyed taking them! Congratulations again to the both of you. It was a pleasure to be your wedding photographers.

Cheers,

Doug- Contact Me!

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Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving went swimmingly and everyone put in some holiday pounds for the winter! First off, I apologize for the long delays on my wedding posts, but I will finally get back on track. To kick start the first wedding blog post, Ezina and Dax finally tied the knot at beautiful Beverly Hills Hotel. While Dax hung out with the boys and watched football, Ezina and her ladies dolled themselves up and enjoyed the morning. Ezina had a particularly interesting custom made wedding dress, which suited the wedding just right. While our love birds prepped up for the big day, Danny and I took some awesome photos of their wedding ceremony site. The wedding site had SO MANY white roses and a cute gate to match.

This wedding was a blend of Jewish and Persian cultures, which complimented quite nicely. There was also a rare instrument that was used during the wedding ceremony that used only the vibration of glass to create music! Without anymore delay, enjoy Ezina and Dax’s fairy tale wedding photographs!

Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Congratulations again to the both of you. It was a pleasure being your wedding photographer at Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Cheers,

Doug – Contact Me!

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I normally do not have a fear of flying, but the tiny plane that Danny and I took to Lake Tahoe was so small and shook like a salt shaker (borrowed that line from Ying Yang Twins)! After the tiny plane landed safely on the tar mat, we gathered our equipment and took the scenic route to Lake Tahoe for Andrea and Troy’s lovely little wedding. On a side note as we drove to the location of the wedding, since it was a summer wedding, Danny and I looked a bit out of place since we wore dress attire while everyone around us ran around in board shorts and swimming trunks.

One of Troy’s family friends was generous enough lend out his lake house for the wedding. The coolest thing about this lake house was that there were four secret passage ways that will lead to secret rooms! We only managed to find one of the passage ways, but it was still really sweet. Enough going off on different tangents, check out Andrea and Troy’s wonderful Lake Tahoe wedding!

Lake Tahoe, California

That is one pretty wedding ring!

I dig the hairdo! This boy was the ring bearer. He was dressed in U.S. Airforce attire to compliment the groom and his entourage of fighter pilots.

Aside from Troy, this gentleman was the most interesting man of the night. He had stories after stories about his life adventures. He was actually a good friend of the famous photographer, Ansel Adams! They actually met when Ansel Adams came in to get his taxes done. After that day, they were best of friends.

Andrea dressed in her best as she walked down the aisle with her parents.

After the wedding ceremony ended, the wedding party all took a quick ride over to a secluded cove for some awesome photos!

You must kiss your bride before passing!

That wedding cake was delicious!

Father and daughter dance is always a touching moment.

After the formalities were done, everyone at the wedding partied the night away.

The sweet thing about this wedding was that it took place on July 3rd, so there was a firework show at midnight! Congratulations, Andrea and Troy!

Adios,

Doug – Contact Me!

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Caroline and Gavin finally got married! It felt like it was only yesterday when Danny and I photographed their engagement sesison in Pasadena. This lovely couple hosted their wedding at the beautiful Park Plaza Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. It was an intimate wedding filled with a handful of friends and family. The best part of their wedding – Lawry’s Steakhouse catered the entire reception! Well, aside from the lovely wedding, flowers, people, and the excitement; the food was runner up. I now present, Caroline and Gavin’s wedding.

The Legendary Park Plaza Hotel
607 South Park View Street
Los Angeles, California 90057

Anyone know what these statues represent? It looks like they are holding up light sabers! Yes, I like Star Wars.

It was always a touching moment to watch the parents walk a daughter down the aisle during the wedding.

This has to be one of the coolest moments ever!!! Caroline’s father and Gavin actually have their own secret handshake. They showed off their moves in front of everyone at the wedding before Caroline was handed over to Gavin.

Aww, the first dance of the night!

I hoped everyone enjoyed these photos as much as I did with the steak. Congratulations on your wedding again, you two love birds.

Cheers,

Doug – Contact Me!

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