First time to Newport Beach for a wedding. It was gorgeous, and so was the couple! We got to Newport after driving for two days down the west coast from Portland, OR. I shot a wedding there the week before, and we took the scenic route. We took the 101 for part of it to see the redwoods. And yes, they are as tall as your middle school textbook claimed. The trip was awesome! We rented a car for the drive (we had weddings Thursday and Friday in Utah, and so we flew out Saturday morning for the Portland wedding- CRAZINESS!), and the car we ended up getting sort-of-by-accident was this "premium car". Thomas made the rental car reservations, and the coupon code we found online gave us a "free upgrade." Ok, we were going to be driving 1100 miles, so he figured "premium" meant a nice comfy Cadillac or something. We ended up getting a Mercury Grand Marquis, and it was powder blue. Really... Total land yacht, and we felt like we should be about 80 years old driving that thing. It was comfy to drive though. Especially with that big bench front seat- I curled up and napped most of the way down... Good way to recover from three days of weddings.

**Note: I had heard of other photographers doing several weddings right in a row, even multiple on the same day. Figured I could do 3 in a row as I thought I was superwoman... but alas, I discovered otherwise. The weddings were AMAZING, but the recovery was not. Don't try this at home, kids.

Erin is a newscaster by profession, and she is such a friendly, outgoing, and bubbly person. She was so happy, just look at that perfect smile! She was beaming.

Evidently when they built the Newport Beach temple, they had to work with the city to make sure it kind of blended in with the rest of the landscape. So they ended up using this gorgeous stone that had almost a sandstone look to it. The architecture was also very Southern California- almost spanish mission-esque. I loved how unique it was!

After the luncheon, we were able to go over to the marina in Laguna Niguel and wheedle our way down onto the docks... Now, I have a confession to make. I'm a little bit obsessed with sailboats. We had a 2 man boat growing up and I actually cried when my dad sold it. Now as a photographer, I cannot imagine a better location than on a dock. I loved all the boats and the texture of the masts in the background. Two really nice guys let us use their boat for the photoshoot when they noticed we were taking pictures (People always give me stuff when I have a bride and groom following me. Something about weddings make even the tough guys sentimental). And as you can see, Erin and Cole's wedding day was "Just Dandy."