Archive for December, 2007

Annie and Tom’s Wedding at Mar Plata and Villa de Roja in San Pancho

Annie and Tom took the plunge in San Pancho, Mexico. Well, the day after the wedding they took the plunge, into the swimming pool! You will see what I mean.
The wedding ceremony was at the garden of Villa de Roja at San Pancho (or San Francisco), overlooking the ocean with a beautiful sunset for accent!

We then proceed to Mar Plata restaurant, a beautiful restaurant, located right across the street (near Costa Azul Hotel as well).

Sayulita and San Pancho area has some great wedding planners, as I mentioned at Mercan and Joel’s wedding, and this was not an exception. Debbie Barran, of Down the Isle, did a great job at the rehearsal, wedding day and the breakfast the day after.

So more about the pool plunge and couple other photos taken the day after the wedding. I started offering day after sessions for my couples as part of some packages, especially works for multi-day destination weddings but this is not just limited to destination weddings. I have done some in Portland as well. It does not have to be the day after either. The idea is to do a fun photo shoot without the stress and time constraints of the wedding day. You can see some at Stephanie and Jared’s wedding (towards the end)and also Christina’s bridal portrait session. Another option I offer is something you can see at Mercan and Joel’s photos. We covered their welcome party the day before the wedding.
I also want to note that Villa de Roja and Mar Plata were fantastic locations. According to Virtual Vallarta, the prestigious American magazine Conde Nast Traveler ranked Mar Plata restaurant as a Hot Table, a classification of 95 new restaurants made by anonymous correspondents around 30 countries. Pretty cool for a restaurant in a tiny little town.
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Dad steaming the dress

Floating candles for the pool

Place cards were little notes on the glasses

off to Mar Plata

Annie’s dad secretly wrote, sang and recorded a song for her on his computer with multiple tracks! This is the cd:

Stealing a little kiss

During the toasts

The day after sessoin. I got in trouble again a the ocean. These waves find a way to get me (camera ok this time)

Another resident of Villa de Roja:

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Yanet and Jose’s Wedding on Dia de los Muertos

Yanet and Jose, both from Mexico, had their beautiful ceremony at the small church in the small plaza in Sayulita, Mexico. Their friends and family joined in for the occasion. It also happened to be Dia de los Muertos, a nation wide celebration in Mexico. There were many street artists performing in the plaza after the ceremony. The wedding party had reserved the classy and tasty Calypso restaurant above the plaza for their reception, so we had a birds eye view.

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Looking down at Sayulita’s waves from the infinity pool.

Through the intricate wood carving on the door.

Limes. Check. Hot Sauce. Check. Bouquet. Check

Photogs ride in the back!

Nacho sharks! Look out!

The festival below in the plaza.

Nice shot Yanet!

Tequila always seems like a good idea at the time…until.

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Rebecca and Mike’s Portland Wedding was the “cat’s meow”

Rebecca and Mike tied the knot privately on Zanzibar’s white sandy beaches, but had their friends and family together at a ceremony at Wilcox Manor (great location) and reception at their home in Portland. They included pieces of their adventure by creating an African theme wedding. Lions, tigers and …giraffes. Oh my!

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Late afternoon long shadows. Us, working hard.

Mike, his daughter and Rebecca walking down the aisle right after the ceremony

I warned you about the tigers earlier.

Cool Cake! The cake topper was later replaced by a hand carved safari themed one (you can see it in one of the later photos)

The iphone had just arrived.

Rebecca’s bridesmaids created a book of memories just for the couple!

Watching the slideshow

Campbell Crane Holiday Party Pictures!

You can see them here.

The event code is: ccc112_2007

Alicia and Matthew’s beautiful Fall wedding at the Mcmenamins Grand Lodge in Forest Grove.

Alicia and Matthew had their wedding at the beautiful and rustic McMenamins Grand Lodge at the height of Fall color here in Oregon.
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Krista and Phong’s Wedding. At The Old Church, then off to the Acadian Ballroom!

Krista and Phong started off the day at the beautiful Benson Hotel getting ready to make the trip to The Old Church for their ceremony. After the ceremony, and the bubble exit, the couple headed off to the Acadian Ballroom to meet-up with their friends, family, and lions.

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All the bridesmaids had a different color.

Watch out!

Monday Night Football theme in background.

The twist.

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Rachael and Rainer at Villa Violeta at San Pancho, Mexico

Rachael and Rainer’s wedding at Villa Violeta in San Pancho, Mexico was an amazing tropical event!- The beautiful colors, great decorations, and the overall setting of Villa Violeta was a great photographic extravaganza! They had their wedding on a private beach accompanied by their beautiful friends and family.
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The beach view from Villa Violeta.

A very cute dress, and shoes too!


A world trained chef prepares a delicious feast.




Wedding crashers!



A beautiful evening in Mexico.

One tequila down…



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Evrim wins award at WPJA

Just learned his image won 4th place at Reception category at the Wedding Photojournalist Association Competition:






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