Tiffany + James {San Luis Obispo}

”Where were you when I got married years ago?!” Is a question I hear often at weddings when guests view my images on the reception slideshow.

Tiffany and James are a couple, like many, who got married years ago and didn’t prioritize the photography. Earlier this year she sent me a really sweet email asking to commission me to get the intimate romantic shots that her photographer had missed. She is a new photographer herself at Pure Photography, which makes it an incredible honor to be invited to capture and share her and her husbands love. Here is an excerpt from her email.

“I’m a long time blog stalker (I don’t mean that in a creepy way!) and a huge fan of your work! The reason I’m writing is because I would like to inquire about your services, I’m not getting married and I’m not engaged…I’ve actually been married for 5 years but when my husband (James) and I said “I Do” we didn’t have a professional photographer, we asked a friend of ours who’s hobby was photography. He did a good job but he wasn’t a wedding photographer and I never got those romantic intimate shots of the hubby and I. For awhile I really didn’t think much of it but I myself have been doing photography for 5 years Being in this industry has really made me want awesome pictures of my husband and I! After discussing this with him, he said, “whatever you want Babe” :-) and I said, “I REALLY want Cameron Ingalls to take our pictures!” So, here I
am… writing you to see if we can make this happen! The hubby and I live
in Reno, NV we would make a vacation to SLO for the photo session.”

So, if you are like Tiffany and James and just couldn’t afford amazing photography for your wedding (or you got married in the 90’s) you can always have me or someone photograph you now. It’s never too late to capture your beautiful love story; no matter what stage you are in!

Zoe + Peter {San Luis Obispo + Santa Margarita}

Zoe and Peter got married at the Mission in San Luis Obispo and then had a beautiful reception in the back hills of Santa Margarita. It was so much fun to work with them and celebrate their marriage with their family and a lot of my friends. It’s fun working a wedding once in awhile where the couples friends are also my friends. I feel like I’m bringing people I love to my job, which already is too much fun! Love you guys. Enjoy your newly wed days!








Stealing wishes. ;)

All About The Bride!

Today I was thinking... that it really is all about the bride! She is the princess. She is the one who has been dreaming about {this day} since playing house with her Barbie dolls. The groom? Its not really about him. Sorry guys! While the little girls are picking out their future brides maids and color schemes we were much more happy catching bullfrogs and tadpoles. Not much changes when little girls and little boys grow up into a bride and groom, except by this time... the girl has caught the boys eye and suddenly he finds something far more interesting to catch. Her beauty has won the little boys heart in a way that none else could compare.

And I was thinking, what is it about a brides grand entrance that makes us gasp for breath as she steps onto the aisle? Why do our eyes become wet with tears and our heart full of music? Its her beauty. It speaks of something more. something greater than bullfrogs and tadpoles.

This week I want to just focus a bit on the Bride. I got great shots of Chad and the groomsman with a beautiful ceremony set in the San Luis Mission, but Ive got to mix it up a bit and besides, Lindsey was such a stunning bride! She was at ease and playful in front of the camera because she confidently shared her beauty. She wasnt ashamed or reserved because she didnt withhold any of who she was, she was simply beautiful!



As I began to go through todays pictures I remembered a book I read to help me understand women a bit more (I will forever be trying). {Captivating} by John and Staci Eldredge really shines a light on the innate character and nature of women. From it I learned that women were made to be beautiful, that they were made to be a reflection of a facet of the very character of God. Hope you enjoy this excerpt and I hope you are able to appreciate just how beautiful Lindsey looked today and I hope that that appreciation can point you to something greater.

{Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what its like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow know our hearts were created for. Beauty speaks of heaven to come, when all shall be beautiful. It haunts us with eternity. Beauty says, There is a glory calling you. And if there is a glory, there is a source of glory. What great goodness could have possibly created this? Beauty draws us to God.

All these things are true for any experience of Beauty. But they are especially true when we experience the beauty of a woman ;her eyes, her form, her voice, her heart, her spirit, her life. She speaks all of this far more profoundly than anything else in all creation, because she is incarnate; she is personal. It flows to us from an immortal being. She is Beauty through and through.

Beauty is, without question, the most essential and most misunderstood of all Gods qualities; of all feminine qualities, too. We know it has caused untold pain in the lives of women. But even there something is speaking. Why so much heartache over beauty? Women dont ache over being geniuses, or fabulous hockey players. Women ache over the issue of beauty; they ache to be beautiful, to believe they are beautiful, and they worry over keeping it if ever they can find it.

A woman knows, down in her soul, that she longs to bring beauty to the world. She might be mistaken on how (something every woman struggles with), but she longs for a beauty to unveil. This is not just culture, or the need to {get a man}. This is in her heart, part of her design.}