But it reminded me….

The Southern California Knot came out recently, and I completely forgot to do a little bragging!! Wendy and John, whose wedding I shot this past April, have a five page spread of their Greystone Mansion wedding featured in the latest issue! To see more of Wendy and John’s wedding, please click here.

To see more of Jules Bianchi Photography in the press, please click here.

Congratulations Wendy & John!

Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a landmark to find Costanoa. I stopped and grabbed a shot on my way into the wedding.

The brothers

Julie’s beautiful details

The ceremony – perfect lighting

My favorite part of the ceremony is the walk out. The couple is always SO happy at this moment, and its my favorite moment to capture!!

Julie & James

The rehearsal dinner was a low-key BBQ complete with wildflowers in jars, red checked table cloths and fiddlers to entertain.

A few favs from the rehearsal dinner:

man, am I tired. but as usual, I can’t sleep. So I’m blogging. Today I got up at the still-dark hour of 6:30am to get ready for today’s wedding. I was excited about it because

a.) I think All Saints Church is gorgeous (I shot Eric Stoltz wedding there on July 16th with my esteemed colleague, John Riedy) and

b.) I think Trisha and Travis are gorgeous (I used images from their engagement shoot in my last Inside Weddings Magazine ad!)

I LOVE shooting the details at my weddings, and I couldn’t believe it when I heard that Trisha’s mother MADE most of the intricate center pieces and details of the Fall themed wedding.

One last thing, Trisha and Travis are avid bikers, and as a send-off they rode off on vintages bikes into the Pasadena sunset as their guests pelted them with Fall leaves. Really gorgeous colors.

a FEW favs:

Glowing Bride

Gorgeous Groom

T&T

The colorful bouquet

The ladies

The men

minutes before walking down the aisle

the reluctant flowergirl

The Kiss

The Details

on the balcony

on the bikes

And lastly, Amy and Chris (with newest family member, Sophia!) I shot their wedding back in 2001, and when Trisha was looking for a photographer, Amy told her all about me! Thank you, Amy and Chris, for the awesome referral!

Today’s wedding was a marathon of five different locations – we started and ended at the beautiful oceanfront Surf & Sand Resort in Laguna Beach. Matthew is British, and in true British tradition, there was a pool going on how long the best man’s toast would be. It ended up being 21 minutes long, and the prize was $120! The winner gave it to the hotel staff as a tip.

Sooo many favorites to choose from!!

My good friend (and talented wedding photographer), Dina Douglass once told me, if you ever meet with clients for a wedding at Rancho Las Lomas do anything you can to book the job! Pam and Joe were married there, and besides the fact that they are the most beautiful couple, the venue is definitely one of the coolest I have ever shot at. The grounds are not only picturesque, but there are unusual animals scattered about. The animals do seem to spend most of their time sleeping, but we got a few great shots!

Here are a bunch (certainly not all!) of my favorites:

Today’s gorgeous event was at the spectacular Montage Hotel in Orange County. Lailani and Francis spared no detail, and Lani was fortunate to have her cousin, Teresa, acting as wedding coordinator to ensure a smooth event.

Of course the flowers were amazing because they were provided by the extremely talented R. J. Balthazar.

The Gentlemen:

The Ladies:

The Getaway:

The Montage:

The Beach:

Today’s wedding was in and around Coloma, California. As with all Northern California weddings, my second shooter for the day was my twin sister, Joy. I love shooting with her because the day is always that much more fun! Aimee and Erik had a gorgeous wedding in the Gold Country complete with a vintage firetruck (Erik is a volunteer fire fighter) and a ceremony at a vintage church. We started the day at the vintage-style World Famous Barber Jon’s where the men got a beer and a close shave!

Jules Bianchi & Joy Bianchi Brown

The quaint town of Coloma

the World Famous Barber Jon’s

The glowing bride

The handsome groom

Ring bearer and flower girl

Bubbles in front of the church!!

A quiet moment alone…

THE TRUCK!!

Today’s wedding was a crazy twelve hour event, but the time just flew by because we were having so much fun. Althea and David met as next door neighbors when they were teenagers, so they have been together for a long long time. Because of this, their wedding party was no less than 20 of their closest friends, and that doesn’t include the three adorable flower girls!

Althea and David had TWO ceremonies today – a full Catholic mass, and a lovely outdoor Jewish ceremony in the garden of the private residence where the reception was held.

The entire event was pulled off without a hitch by the suberb talents of Tracy Serreno of RSVP Event & Wedding Design.

David is super cool in my book because not only was he excited when I pulled out my Holga and loved the lensbaby shots I showed him, but he had just bought himself the Canon 20D to take on his honeymoon! Here are a some (but certainly not all) of my favorites:

The wedding was at the beautiful Wattles Mansion, and these are my favorite shots of the day:

What a fun wedding. First of all, I love going to the Bay Area for weddings because I get to shoot with my sister, Joy, and always have such a good time (not to mention we sometimes have the opportunity to do our famous dance… those of you who know what I’m talking about consider yourselves lucky!!) Today’s wedding was no exception. Tuan and Caitlin (aka Casey by her loved ones) were married at
St. Francis Winery in Sonoma. It was a gorgeous day out – not too hot – and to protect their guests from heat, Tuan and Casey thoughtfully provided parasols. I love this shot because you can see their kiss right through the parasol!

success with the lensbaby! I was excited to give the new lensbaby a try at an actual wedding… its really hard to focus, but I thought this shot of lovely caitlin was particularly cool…

To add a little ambience, the pathways were lined with candle-lit bags. I thought it was really romantic…

I decided to cross process the roll from the swinglens camera and just got all the images back! how beautiful is this??

This whole wedding went flawlessly thanks to the skillful talents of event coordinator Josephine Gallella of Weddings by Josephine.

I would also like to mention that Laura had absolutely incredible flowers designed by Debbie Fields of Floral Fields.

How much do I love kids at weddings??? And there were no less than SIX flower girls at this one!! They were aged six months to eight years old and were absolutely adorable.

laura & david are the reason I bought my uber awesome Horizont Swinglens camera. I LOVE it!! I thought this photo was particularly cool and really showed off the gorgeous Pasadena Museum of History where we did all of the portraits.