Paige and Jason’s wedding isn’t until next July, but we already got their engagement photos done! We had quite a bit of fun shooting, from Squaw to Tahoe City to Speedboat Beach. Ahh, so hard to put the camera down! ; )

I’m already looking forward to the wedding!

Alicia and Tim came up to the lake with their little sweetheart Brynn, for some with-baby and some without-baby engagement shots. She is picture perfect, can’t wait to see her in her flower girl attire! Oh and I think the wedding will be a lot of fun… : )

On one of the thus far rare perfect days this year, Amy and Brett came up for their engagement session. They were absolutely fabulous, very much in love, natural and so much fun to work with! It was really hard to narrow down the images to show here, there are so many I’d love to share. I just can’t wait for their wedding!!

Well, they did want snow – but more on the ground and the trees than all over! They got more than they bargained for, a complete white-out – but it turned out to be a lot of fun! Being from Hawaii, Cherie and Maika are not used to the cold, but braved it without hesitation.


I love how their photos came out, snow everywhere, particularly in their hair! I’ve been wanting to do a snow shoot for a while, and couldn’t have asked for a nicer couple to do it with. I can only imagine what a gorgeous bride Cherie will be!

Just 3 days before their wedding on Sunday we did Andrea & Jim’s engagement shoot since they haven’t been back to Tahoe to do it any sooner. They came all the way from Florida to tie the knot up at Heavenly, as it was during a ski trip to Tahoe that they realized they wanted to take their relationship further. More about them after the wedding!

All I can say is ‘wow’. We went out late afternoon yesterday, and couldn’t have had a more dramatic backdrop, with huge clouds over the East Shore. It was so perfect, and Meghan and J.J. are fabulous in front of the camera (even though they don’t think so!). I’m very excited to be shooting their wedding in August! (Also check out the impromtu tie-the-knot shoot we did.)

Tiffiny and Josh are two of the funnest people you’ll ever meet, and up for anything! We went to Sand Harbor since they were all the way out here from Omaha and wanted the blue blue Tahoe blue; the weather was perfect, the lake almost glass, and only few people around – but, of course, since it was a Sunday, the divers were there! I don’t know how they can stand the cold water, but they had this hilarious, typographically highly valuable sign on the beach, and we decided Josh needed some rescuing. Tiffiny couldn’t move him an inch and we all cracked up.
Did I mention Tiffiny jumped into the water off of a rock? I just can’t wait to shoot their wedding!! She did say she’ll do a snow angel in her dress… (yes, it’ll be a winter wedding).

Yesterday morning I met with Meghan and JJ about their August wedding; Meghan’s mom Kathi and two of her bridesmaids came along for support and to enjoy a beautiful weekend at the lake. At the end of the meeting they mentioned that they were going to go take a “tie-the-knot” picture; well, I happened to have a camera in the car and offered to do it for them. So we went to Sunnyside pier, where I borrowed Kathi’s boots (I was in heels – great for snow!), and off we went into the untouched snow. Meghan and JJ were a lot of fun, up for anything, and great to work with, even just for 15 unscripted minutes! Look at how happy they are together –

My friends Kevin and Judith and myself had a great time strolling through downtown Truckee with my camera – who knew Truckee could be so cool? Well, I had an inkling.
They love the results, most of all that we came away with such a variety of styles; cute, happy, fun, hip, cool; as well as an array of backdrops – and these two were such naturals as models and easy to work with!
Check out some of my favorites:

Mark and Stefanie took me to the spot where he actually proposed – on a huge boulder jutting out to the lake on Tahoe’s East Shore. It was a bit of a climb to get down there, but certainly worth it; the boulders are just phenomenal! Stefanie has been going there to swim since she was a little girl. They even incorporated the mountains above Incline Village as a water color painted after photos Mark took from that very boulder on their custom-made invitations!
We had a lot of fun, the only challenge being that there is hardly any shade there; but Tahoe colors and feel were what we were after, and we sure captured that – proposal boulder inclusive!
I am so excited for their wedding mid-October! They have picked the most gorgeous, rich colors and hopefully we can catch some turning aspens.

Congratulations, you two!