having been to Guatemala with these two amazing love birds is just beyond more wedding cake, and I love wedding cake lemme tell you. :) it was to special to see you guys again and your wonderful families and friends. you are both so incredibly gracious, and warm. it was such a wonderful experience to have the opportunity to work with you in two amazing locations. I wish you both all the love in the world, oh wait, you already have that

I had the pleasure of working with the two of you twice. Your beautiful, snowy engagement pictures, and then the amazing day of your wedding.  I hope that you had a wonderful honeymoon, and I wish you an amazing life together you two

even though the rain kept us from going outside, it didn’t ruin the mood for an amazing wedding celebration. it was  such a pleasure working with you both.

Chloe and Matt, my two darlings… Kevin and I had soooo much fun chillin with you two in Sac Town. Thank you both for giving me creative freedom to do some fun stuff! I *cannot* wait to get these to the lab. Hold on cuz here come some fun stuff you two!

I am so thrilled that Erin Farmer, our own Studio’s office manager, was married on May 24th to an awesome guy, Jim Ebright. I just couldn’t have been happier to be there with you two and your families to document the day. Rain or shine, it was an incredible day….erin you are such a chill bride! you know i love you!

here we are behind the scenes. the caption is plenty is it not?

I love posting eye candy. I belong to an exclusive group of photographers called Commonly Different, and this past weekend our group took 2 models out to the desert to an abandoned mill to do a Trash the Dress session. Under the blazing sun, these gorgeous girls posed for us in this uber cool environment. As a lot of you already know my style is sort of funky, colorful, and fun. And this weekend we just did it up. For any of you brides who want to do something like this after the wedding, it’s a wonderful addition to your wedding look books. We can just go crazy!!!

I can’t even begin to put this into words how amazing the two of you are, how lucky you are to have such awesome families, and how beautifully your wedding embodied so many amazing qualities. I was honored to be there with the two of you to capture every moment that unfolded. I can’t wait to see everyone again in June!!!

So I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Guatemala to photograph a wedding and I can’t even tell you how excited I am to post the images from the it, Kelly & Luis, you two are in for a real treat!! Friday, look for another heavy duty blog posting of images from the wedding!!! I’ve been cramming in some editing for you guys.

In the interim, I have some snapshots from our adventures before the wedding. We absolutely adored the city of Antigua which is about 45 minutes from Guatemala City. Literally meaning, “old city” it’s history is rich with culture. You can tell just from some of these pics what joy lurked around every corner. It was fantastic. The colors there are what inspired me to take so many. I love color and any chance I get to document beautiful textures, this was the time to do it.

beneath the streets is the Mercado, all the locals do all their shopping for everything from textiles & flowers to fresh fruits and vegatables and of course, fresh meat.

affectionately known as “chicken buses” these are retired school buses used in the states. each one is privately owned and decked out with exuberant colors and chromed out. they are crazy drivers though so we did not venture onto any chicken bus, i kept a safe distance and took pictures of them instead.

i love doors, and i really love texture, so of course i have an entire series of shots like this with various doors and colored walls. last year i made a calendar of doors like this from a wedding I did in St. John, the colors there were just as beautiful. I love doors

this is the inside of a catacombe from a church that was partially destroyed by a massive earthquake 200 years ago.

i desperately wanted to get a shot of a Mayan woman’s face while she walked with her load on her head. it’s amazing these women are so adapt to carrying heavy weight, perfectly balanced on their heads. i never once saw any of them drop it. they don’t like their pictures to be taken, so I made sure to respect their culture by not shooting them straight on.

I think I saw colors here I had never seen before. Is this the most beautiful shade of red ever??

I always love to see how much love can fill a room and actually overshadow the wedding itself. It was so obvious how much your friends and family completely adore the both of you.  I wish you a lifetime of happiness….

xoxo christa