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Catching the last few rays of sun before joining an epic party. 🧡 #loveyoumoyer2019

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Welcoming in year 28 with the same great style as ever.💥

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Want my top five tips for your engagement photos? ➡️ into my DMs and they’re yours!🧡⁣
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Also, raise your hand if part of your job description includes posting photos of other people making out to your instagram. Just me?! How weird. 😂 ⁣
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I share these tips with each client that books and Leah and John’s session turned out so well because they took them to heart.⁣🌊
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When they picked their location, they chose a spot that felt familiar, but special. When they were dating, they used to tandem bike up to this area, enjoy some drinks and watch the sunset, and then (wobbly) bike bike home. 😂 Revisiting this spot brought back so many fun date night memories during our session!⁣😊
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They didn’t accidentally choose this spot, they followed the advice I give all my couples: Showing up in a pretty place and posing can be fun, but somewhere meaningful and familiar you already love just naturally puts you at ease.🙌🏼

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🍬Double tap for cotton candy skies😋 🍬
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Back home in Santa Barbara and working on edits from this yummy wedding day! Beverley + Will took 30 minutes for sunset photos during their reception and boy howdy, the results are MAGICAL. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Sunset portraits give us such stunning light, especially for larger landscape photos that really highlight the beauty of your venue. When you get married in such a stunning spot, we want you to have photos that reflect that!
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Whether you step away for 5 minutes or 45, we’ll make the most of it and ensure you have some beautiful portraits for your wedding album. ✨

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I’m in New York for one more day and I am loving my solo mini vacay.⁣🧡
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I’m not going to lie, I used to never travel by myself. In fact, it scared me. My husband and I have been together for 9 years so most of my adult life I’ve always had a travel partner. I’m not going to lie though, we’ve always have our blow out, divorce level fights on vacation. (Palm Springs is seriously now a trigger word for us!) ⁣☠️☠️☠️
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He always wants to get out there and hike 20 miles while I’m the gal who wants to sit by the pool with a book + margarita while someone fans me with a palm frond. #patagucciLYFE Over the years, we’ve found our happy medium. In the morning, we climb the mountain and in the afternoon, we make happy hour happen by the pool. I’ve also learned to enjoy a solo vacay and be myself in a city. I’ll put on my headphones, play jazz music, and pretend like I’m in a movie as I stroll and explore.⁣🙌🏼
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I’m so excited to go to the Natural History Museum, walk through Central Park, and find a jazz club + cocktails. This is my last 24 hours here, what else should I fill my day with?!✨

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FIRST DANCE PHOTO TIP💥
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Whether your first dance is your most anticipated moment of the day or you are dreading all your family and friends seeing how you REALLY have no rhythm...this is a reminder to DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO WHATEVER SONG YOU LOVE. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This is an amazing time to be with your partner, snuggled up to your favorite song. It can be 45 seconds or all the way to the end. Slow dance prom style or DWTS-sequel choreography. Just live in the moment.
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I’ll be there to capture all the dips 🥰

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✨What’s one of your favorite photos from your wedding?✨
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Bev + Will were super jazzed for some night photos and had amazing ideas for locations around their venue but for our first set of night portraits, they didn’t even leave the dance floor!
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Thanks to the bomb lighting + fog from @bigfundj, we created one this image before capturing more magical night portraits.
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Thinking back on my own wedding day, one of my fave portraits wasn’t my idea but one that my photographers dreamed up. So glad I left room for improv, imagination, and lived in the moment, trusting what they would capture and I feel so grateful when my clients do the same!
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Sometimes it’s not the photos you think you want that blow you away. 🧡

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Can confirm that this gorg bride is 100% responsible for the glow in this photo.✨ We love how Beverley + Will took time for portraits both before the wedding ceremony and during sunset. This whole day was such a beautiful one!
Planner: @simplylovely_events
Venue: @nellaterra
Florist: @thebloombarco
Catering: @onthevinecatering
Desserts: @pop_churros
DJ: @bigfundj
Photo Booth: @instapix_photo_booth
Video: @two4teaweddingfilms