abigail on mammoth mountain

while david is shooting a wedding in point loma , i'm gonna make a post, kim style, with twice the catch phrases and none of the stupid puns :)

that's what she said! stay classy san diego! whammy! go ahead, make my day. use the force luke.

fact: i think i'm hilarious.

in all seriousness, while at mammoth lakes we got to shoot the cutest. baby. ever. billy and cynthia's daughter abigail, who has beautiful eyes and her hair smells like cinnamon.

now i have a machine gun. ho. ho. ho. okay, that was the last one. hasta la vista baby.

rob and kim, the ninja family

we are always stoked when other wedding photographers ask us to do portraits of them. how stoked do you think we were when rob and kim ninja asked us to do their portraits in coronado recently? it's not everyday that you get to shoot real life ninjas, let alone one that's also a delaware wedding photographer.
true story.

we simply had to get a shot of rob and kim in the great pit of carkoon, aka home of the sarlacc. not to many people know that it's right here in san diego.

rob recalled the time when kim leg-swept him off his feet. it was love at first fight. aren't my puns awesome?!

rob showing off some of his ninja prowess.

kim is sorta like rob's shoulder angel. a shoulder angel in black leather that will totally karaticize you if you don't do the right thing. :)

trust me when i say that you do not want to be on the business end of kim's stiletto. she will destroy you, with a smile. :)

rob has some skills of his own.
while standing, i witnessed him jump in the air about 15 feet, do a flip, and then...

launch the most insane flying kick i've seen since chun-li defeated dhalsim in the world master's tournament of '02.

you just gotta love a san diego sunset, especially when they're not covered up by a crazy thick marine layer.

we want to thank you rob and kim for flying all the way out from delaware just to see us (and maybe do some other stuff too). we feel very honored that out of all the photographers in san diego you chose us to do your portraits. we had so much fun watching you run, jump, and kick your way around coronado. for those of you still reading, i will let you in on a little secret. although rob and kim are awesome like ninjas, their last name is not actually ninja (don't tell their neighbors). try not to freeze back in delaware rob and kim (and everyone else living there). if it gets too cold just remember that our san diego sunshine is just a hop, kick, and a punch away.
on a side note, glad to see you'll be keeping the west coast connection alive through the b school. did i mention that i soundly defeated the becker in a no holds barred indoor go kart race at k1 speed in irvine? :) lucky for me it wasn't a no holds barred poker tournament.

hordes of san diego wedding photographers descend on Tim and Melissa's wedding

after months of planning, melissa and tim finally walked down the aisle and said i do at the beautiful Ocean View Villas in Point Loma CA. another melissa, melissa barrad from I Do Weddings, did an awesome job bringing everything together. there were lots of familiar faces in the crowd. it seemed like half the wedding photographers in san diego were there, sprinkled in with some friends and family of course. it felt kind of weird being at a wedding and not working. we were guests, but, like 90 percent of the people there, brought a camera just for fun.
oddly enough, our san diego chargers somehow made it into the playoffs and as fate would have it, their first playoff game was scheduled the same day as tim and melissa'a wedding. melissa being a good sport, and tim being a huge chargers fan, immediately announced that they would have a tv, with the game on, during their reception. chargers fans rejoiced and were well represented at the wedding. more on that later.
getting back to melissa and tim. i've never seen tim so happy as when i saw him in front of the crowd looking into his bride's eyes. melissa looked absolutely amazing. she had a sweet retro look, in her custom made April Shell wedding dress with faux fur and a bird cage veil by Shelly Sheek Designs. (i love those veils!) her look was topped off with a sweet hair style by Freddie of Frederick Michael Salon and make up by Claudia Welsh of Make Up by CJ.

here's some of our fellow guests / san diego wedding photographers. melissa and tim gave brad and angelina a little competish with all the cameras they had pointed at them.

melissa had a rad sign-in book made with a bunch of the pictures we took for their engagement session.

i didn't get a shot of melissa's shoes, so here's a shot of kim's chucks.

all the cool paper products were by Cathy at Love at First Invite except...

these awesome place cards were made by melissa's mom.

our seats were at the exclusive polaroid table. (all the tables had camera brands on them.)

being the HUGE twitter fan that melissa is, she stopped right in the middle of the ceremony and let everyone that follows her in twitterland know that she had just said her vows. thanks alyssa for showing us. (she makes the cutest faces)

is it just me, or do tim and melissa look SUPER happy?

aaron did his best paparazzi impression by peeking through the velcro seam in the tent and snapping a few quick shots.
he was promptly escorted from the premises. :) (not really)

signature drinks of the night were morgans with coke and, appropriately, cherry bombs.
kim made hers a little more snazzy by adding a fortune cookie to the rim. very nice. i like.

and now, back to the charger fans in the house. this is what the room looked like about six and a half minutes into overtime.

unfortunately i didn't have my wide angle lens to show how packed this room was with bolt fans. there was probably 50 people in there and crowding around the door. it was awesome! i hope we all get to feel what it's like for our team to win a championship. even if it's only once. it was an incredible feeling just seeing them win a wild card round. i can't imagine how insane it will be if the chargers win the superbowl. the dream is still alive.

did you see that sweet canvas on the wall of tim and melissa from their engagement session? we were pretty stoked to see that. it's such an honor when someone likes your work enough to put it up for everyone to see.

and now is the time on sprockets when we dance.

1 up! luigi ftw!

photo booth time!

aaron and samantha are so hot right now. not just because of the heater.

i still don't know what we're yelling about!

i loves me some sparklers!

aaron's sparkler got no spark.

that's not what she said!

mmmm the last cup cake. gloria's cakes and desserts provided the sweets. they didn't last long.

congratulations tim and melissa! we are so stoked for you two! one favor we have to ask is that you renew your vows every week until mid february so we keep the good mojo for the chargers. :) in case you didn't hear her (which is impossible even if you're deaf) kim was quoted as saying yours was "the best wedding ever!" so you got that going for you. honestly, it wasn't just because the chargers won. we had a load of fun with you two and all of our good friends. outside of every saturday at balboa park, how often do you see almost every photographer in san diego in the same place. we all wish you every good thing life has to offer. have a super fun honeymoon cruise. see you when you get back.