Ring shots. Bling shots.

If I ask for your rings and sneak off with them during the reception or at any point before or after the ceremony, now you'll know what I'm up to.  I'm just such a sucker for photographing details...  especially rings & other shiny things, dresses, and can't forget shoes!  Here's one of my favorite ring shots to date.  Catholic school salt and pepper shakers at a catholic wedding.



Of course, I couldn't resist doing a "collection" of my own.  I wasn't quite manicured and ready for hand modeling, but they'll have to do.  :)  So here you have it.. in case you were curious to see it.  My bling:









These are just a few from the set I took.  :)  I'll be sure to set up a separate album for bling shots on flickr and facebook.

Spring Hall - Doraville, GA

Time to hit that reset button on the blog resolution.

Before I move on with the rest of the post, I also wanted to mention that I'm no longer taking any more July weddings this month.  I am taking it easy in July.

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Spring Hall is located off of Buford Hwy and is mainly a wedding venue where you can also host other events such as birthdays...  particularly 100th day and 1st birthdays are huge celebrations in the Korean community.  I had never seen the place in person, but kept hearing of it from different brides, so I decided I wanted to check it out... not knowing that I coincidentally already knew the owner. 

After speaking to Young Mi, she asked me to come in and take some photos of a birthday event for their website.  Let me tell you, it was probably the most elaborate and well designed birthday I have ever seen.  I was thoroughly impressed.  Here are the photos:

Anik Designs - St. Regis Hotel.

Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend! I spent the majority of the time doing what I do best... eating! Ribs, BBQ, hotdogs, salmon, shrimp, kabobs, chicken wings... you name it, I ate it. :) I had the chance to enjoy the beautiful weather and spend time with friends and family that were in town! Hopefully, in the next month or so I can get the chance to look at some of these personal photos. For now, I am piled high in work!

Meanwhile, I wanted to share some photos I took at the St. Regis hotel. I love shooting details, and sometimes I even joke around about being a wedding details only photographer. A couple weekends ago, however, I had the perfect opportunity to do just that for Anik Designs. The arrangements and the venue were absolutely incredible!



















Next up... Frank and Gloria's wedding teasers. :)

Flowers - Anik Designs

I had the great pleasure of meeting Anik of Anik Designs right before Melissa's bridal session. While we chatted, we discovered that we both came from very similar backgrounds. She has a background in biology and is now does wedding planning and flower arrangements, while I had a background in Chemistry and am now doing wedding photography. I suppose you have to really know the flowers to arrange them so beautifully! ;) As for me? Maybe Chemistry gives me good people chemistry. lol I sure am not mixing chemicals to develop my photos. That's for sure.

I just wanted to show off a few photos of how beautiful the bouquet and centerpieces turned out. Love all the bright, vibrant colors.











Check out her website for more of her work. :)

Pauline Wedding (Details) - Huntington Beach, CA

Hair and make-up was done at Andre Hair Studio (LA, CA):









I love shoes <3.






Newland Barn (Huntington Beach, CA). It was a beautiful outdoor venue.


I like the idea of having unity sand instead of the unity candle.



And a nice customized bowl for one of their honorary guests! :)



These all came in handy for an outdoor, sunny-day wedding. Sunblock and after-sun aloe.



The programs were fans...



that could also be used to shield the sun. hehe



Gerbera daisies!

Jean and Mike Wedding - The Details.

It wouldn't be me to leave out the Details of a wedding. Plus, these two have had so many compliments on their unique style... very unconventional, yet pulled off very well. As small as the details may seem, a lot of thought and care is put into them. Since I love shooting them, I'm going to do a back-to-back post on details. Hopefully, you brides-to-be can get some great ideas for your own weddings.

Love these birdcage style veils. Oooh and this one with the feather! Absolutely loved it! You can get these from Twigs and Honey. They have a lot of other cute hairpieces as well.



... which means I couldn't stop taking photos of it.



I really like incorporating pianos into my details shots as you can tell. :)



The hair up-do was amazing! Beautifully done. I liked the colors of the robes in the salon as well.



Getting made-up. Huge windows with the long hanging curtains = great light.



Mike needed a little touching up as well. ;)



The dress was beautiful! Guess who it was made by?



The bling. Maybe I will post a better pic of the bling itself. She just looked so gorgeous in this one.



Jean went to UGA. Showing it loud and proud.



The colors palette: green, yellow, fresh.



Jean opted, instead of traditional bridesmaid dresses, for these Ralph Lauren dresses that are more versatile and can be worn again after the wedding. :) This was just supposed to be a shoe shot. A better pic of the dresses is on this post here.



Cute ideas. Instead of having an ordinary guest book, they had their guests write on little cards and insert them into these mini envelopes. The guest sign-in table matched the picnic-style wedding they were going for.



Wedding cupcakes are a good dessert alternative to cakes. There were some cute cupcake ideas I saw on theknot. This one was very full of their personality. The glasses were a cute touch!



These were handed out at the end as part of their picnic-style wedding. :) Ice pops or lightsabers? Nice way to end the day.



Pauline's details are up next. :) I'm off to norcal today! I'll be back in LA area from the 19-23.