Okay, so one of the first things people say when they hear I am engaged (eeek!) is, “Wow! I bet you know exactly how you want your wedding to look since you see so many!” And you know, if you were to have said that to me a month ago I would have said, “Oh, toooootally.” Today, it’s a much different story. Because, in actuality, as soon as I saw this lovely ring on my finger every sure thought I had about how I wanted our wedding to look flew out the door. As I looked at location after location, all of a sudden, all I could see was everyone elses big day- their flowers, their location, their place cards, their dress…. what I couldn’t picture was mine and Tim’s version of all of this. Where did we fit in? Could I actually see MYSELF putting on my gown, hear MYSELF saying my vows? See TIM‘s face during OUR first look? Help! The world is spinning!

Needless to say, I calmed myself down. This is going to be fun! (and expensive) Tim and I are going to do this together (fingers crossed)- we’re going to decide things together (most of the time), and using my knowledge and expertise we’re going to have a beautiful wedding. OUR wedding.  OUR way. We’ve found a really neat, totally unique, location, which I’ll share soon… once the three bigs are taken care of – Location, Food, and Photographer *duh!* we can breathe easy until at LEAST January, right?.. well, we can try!

Here are a couple photos I took in my parents backyard of my inspiration start off point! It’s going to be a fun. *crafty* year!

Thank you for all the well-wishes… you guys are the best!

So there was this venue that I had bookmarked for, oh, I don’t know, a year or so- that just had the perfect feel for what I wanted my wedding day to look like. Organic, Rustic, Elegant… Anthropologie….. So, of course, being a wedding photographer, I am well aware of how quickly things book up- so I sent an email off to the owner about 2.5 seconds after I had this ring on my finger. What do ya know! BOOKED UP for all of 2010. At first I was bummed, discouraged, a little down. But that’s okay, no one ever said wedding planning was easy and as a book my mom and I purchased yesterday states, “Don’t aim for a perfect wedding- aim for a wonderful wedding.” I have a first hand view of how much work, thought, and stress goes into planning a wedding day so I guess I should have expected bumps! Looking at a pretty neat looking space later today up in Marin – wish me luck!

I started a new category up there called, A Photographers Wedding. Sorry if this totally doesn’t interest you at all but this blog is a personal space for me and I think this next year my head is definitely going to be in planning mode and how can I not share things with you all? So, if this bores you- I’ll understand .. just scroll down.

Also, after next weekends Napa wedding I’ll be heading back to Los Angeles so be expecting a lot of blog catch up. If I know some of you, and I KNOW I know some of you, you’ve been refreshing the page daily waiting to see some of your images.

Because a blog post is better with pictures- here are some highlights from Becky and Adam’s portrait time a little earlier in the summer.

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