Wow, this last week was AMAZING! Our speaking trip to Photo Plus Expo in NY was such a success! I can’t wait to tell you all about it. But first, I’ve got to share this recent engagement session with you.

John and Lauren booked Me Ra Koh Photography for their upcoming June 2007 wedding. Brian and I fell in love with them because they’re so kind and incredibly cool in their unique taste.

As many of you know, Brian and I only accept twelve weddings a year. Bleu and Ginger, our wedding associates, book more, but Brian and I like to keep it at twelve. How do we decide on what twelve weddings to shoot? Since we send our weddings to various magazines, we want our twelve weddings to be different in location, style and taste. And most of all, we want to feel a connection with the couple.

Well I spent over an hour with John on the phone in our first phone call. 🙂 He said that it was the longest he’s ever talked to anyone! When we found out their wedding was going to take place in a funky garage in Southern CA, we knew this was a perfect wedding for 2007. Not to mention how great John and Lauren are! Check out their garage wedding site!

For the engagement shoot, they wanted it all in an alley. So Brian and I flew to Santa Monica, and we all went hunting for the perfect alley. Can you believe we found it?! It had ivy growing on brick, funky doorways, two cafe chairs!, a grocery cart and awesome graffiti. All in one alley!

To see all their photos, check out John and Lauren’s Slideshow. Here are a few of our favorites!

Can you believe this wall! Loved it!

I thought the below shot was fun. Brian caught me laughing with them in between shooting. They were such fun!

John and Lauren are also starting their own photography business, so you can imagine how much fun we had talking!

Here are two more favorites. I loved their glasses!

Brian and I find that most our clients have a personal connection to photography. Whether they had a grandfather who was a photographer, or parents who collected photography, or they themselves are in the business-they all have a personal connection to their wedding photography. Some of our clients have a budget of $600K plus on their wedding day. Some have a quarter of that but they put their money into the photography b/c they know this is what they care about most in the end. With this being true, we can’t help but fall in love with our clients since we all share the same passion on some level.

I’ll be sure to keep all the rest of you updated on the unfolding of their new business. They’re going to be great! Congrats John and Lauren!!