Cheryl and Sung's Wedding - Montecito Country Club

I had the honor of shooting Cheryl and Sung's wedding this past weekend as a 2nd photographer with Sarah Holden of Sarah Holden Photography. The wedding was at the beautiful Montecito Country Club.

Along with meeting so many incredible brides and grooms, I love being able to meet other wedding industry professionals like Sarah, her husband Jeff (video) and the two wonderful characters behind Make My Day Coordination Services, Carol and Christa. Sarah is an awesome photographer from LA and works with her husband Jeff (Hillside Productions) who's the man in charge of the video camera. What a great team!

Carol and Christa make another great team and were in total control of the days events. It was such a pleasure working with this crew!

Here are some favorites from Cheryl and Sung's wedding day.

Sarah and Jordan's Bank Day!

Well, everyone knows about my niece and nephew being back home in Santa Barbara because I can't stop talking about them! They came with me the other day to run errands and we wound up at the bank. So... I decided to give them some gifts and start them out on their road to financial freedom! haha

Sarah and Jordan opened up their first personal savings accounts! Wells Fargo has a special program for children that teaches them about savings. A little incentive that they offer is that for every $3.00 they deposit, they earn a Wells Fargo Kid Buck. They can save these bucks and buy prizes with them or if they can make it to $100 kids bucks they can turn them all in for a $50.00 US Savings Bond! Not a bad return eh? I wish I started saving when I was 8 years old!

Here are some pics from my iphone of their day at the bank. Jordan was so cute, he was a little nervous about signing his paperwork, but he did it!

Tanya and Randy's Wedding!

I just don't have words to describe the people that I meet doing wedding photography, they're all amazing, just like this wonderful couple. I had the honor of shooting Tanya and Randy's wedding here in Santa Barbara.

The girls started their day with some pampering at River Blue Salon in Montecito and the ceremony and reception were held at Serra Hall. Everyone was wonderful with laughter and tears flowing all over the place.

Thank you for having Rolando and myself there to share in your wedding day!

Here are some favorites from their day.

Kimberly and John's Wedding 7-7-7

I had the honor of shooting Kimberly and John's wedding before I went on my trip. This was a very intimate and special 7-7-7 wedding held at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Montecito.

Kimberly and John are from the San Francisco area and are about as nice, caring and in love as they come. The wedding was small and intimate and one VIP on the guest list was their dog Macy! The ceremony was on the beach and was followed with a beautiful dinner at the Biltmore. It was an honor to be a guest and to be their photographer on their wedding day.

On a side note, talk about a small world... I met Kimberly and John, which led me to meet Kimberly's cousin Lesley who told me that I should meet her sister. She said that it was too bad because her sister lives in Maui. Well... I was going to Maui 2 days after the wedding so I DID get to meet her wonderful sister Patricia in Maui! Patricia met my folks that came out to Maui for the second half of my vacation and over lunch, we found out that (try to follow me here) my dad, mom, uncle, HER dad and mom all graduated from the same Medical school in the Phillipines AND my uncle knows them!?! How bout them apples! Crazy huh?

Anyway, here are some favorites from their day.