I am so excited to present my new homepage on my website, it is very long overdue! I have not updated my homepage or wedding and family galleries for almost 3 years so my work was starting to get outdated and not great compared to what I was producing. The good thing is, I was shooting too much to ever get back to it, so that is my great excuse! 🙂 I would love some feedback as I know everybody out there has different size monitors, different computer speeds, flash capabilities, etc. So I would like to know how my website looks overall, the images, songs, functionality, user friendliness, etc. I would appreciate positive and negative feedback as it would greatly help me. This site is still a work in progress, there are many things to still fix and change, but too excited to wait so gotta share! Thank you for taking the time to check out my new updated work! I am just linking the homepage at this point as I want to perfect the wedding galleries and get up the new engagement and media gallery up before I directly link those. Thanks for looking!

   Will post the Wedding Galleries and new Family and Engagement Gallery soon!

I really cannot thank my amazing clients enough. I am very humbled by all of the amazing reviews that I have received from my clients. Getting client reviews is not an easy task, especially when you have to start a new account with a username and password to leave one. So again, thank you to all of my amazing clients who use me time after time, year after year, and give me lots of pats on the back. You keep me going in this crazy world we live in! 🙂

Check out Capturing Moments 60 Reviews on Wedding Wire:
http://www.weddingwire.com/reviews/capturing-moments-photography-newport-beach/f61170596981c0e7.html

Family Shoot Days are here in OC for the Holidays!!!! In fact my 50% off mini shoot days have become so popular I am doing them every 3 months. For Christmas pictures, I usually have 6 shoot days, but this year in OC they are very limited. I will only have 3 shoot days, and two of them I have already done. I am also going to open up shoot days to the Boise area, so inquire if you live in Treasure Valley and want a photo shoot. These photoshoots can be up to a family of 4, 30 minutes of coverage with me, and full custom editing and copyrights on all images for only $250. My only shoot day in OC left for the Holidays is Sunday, November 20th at a park in the Fullerton/Brea area. I have 2 spots left. My next scheduled shoot day in OC will be for Spring, March 11th. The shoots usually result in a few hundred images and you own them all on CD. These Shoot Days can be used for Seniors, pregnancy, engagement shoots, etc.  email me at capturingmoments@hotmail.com to reserve a spot!

After the Wedding day, or in this case before, couples forget that Marriage is work at times and you have to put effort into it. Sometimes you even have to save it. I have blogged many times and Facebooked I was on my way to Marriage Bootcamp, or in this case the Intensive Couples Retreat. They are truly amazing and life changing and I have had the opportunity to help train at them for years now. No matter where you are in your relationship or Marriage, these weekends are worth every penny and every minute you invest. I am so excited to announce that Gene Simmons, Kiss Star, and Shannon Tweed attended the intense “Couples Retreat” and then after 28 years they got married!!! The partial story is below and the link sends you to the homepage of Marriage Help Centers and the full story and more information about these bootcamps. You have to go to one of these!!!!

After 28 years of dating, KISS star, Gene Simmons finally marries Shannon Tweed. He had always claimed that he was against marriage, so what changed his mind?
Recently, Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed attended our “Couples Retreat” which will be featured as part of their “Gene Simmons Family Jewels” reality show, airing Monday, October 17th on A&E . Marriage Help Centers partnered in a “Private Couples Retreat” in Orange County, which is run quarterly, for those who are seeking a more private and intimate setting. There are Monthly Relationship bootcamps as well. Click below for the rest of the story:

I love this super sweet couple….Yvette and Vinny! Congrats on your recent wedding and honeymoon! The wedding day was filled with love, laughter, and tears….and the day was all about family and friends. The bride and groom chose to see each other before the wedding ceremony so they could have some time with each other, hang out with the entire bridal party and family, have more time for pictures, and take the pressure off the bride who had to walk down a big flight of stairs to get to the groom. I set up a great moment for the bride and groom when they see each other before the ceremony, the bride walks to the groom while the are all alone down a nice path. We did most of the romantics, family, and bridal party pics before the ceremony, which results in a lot more time for images, therefore a lot more images. The Reception was full of laughter and lots of dancing, this crowd had nothing short of a great time!

Old Ranch Country Club Website:
http://www.oldranch.com/weddings/

I absolutely LOVED this wedding and venue! I know I always brag about my couples and weddings, but this wedding was simply one of the best! Calimigos Ranch in Malibu, California is one of thee best wedding venues in Southern California! There are several different wedding ceremony and reception sites. I cannot imagine a ceremony site better than this spot Giannina and Aaron chose. Not to mention their family is amazing! The couple got married under a ridiculously large tree that canopied over their entire 20 person bridal party. The entire venue is covered with trees draped in twinkle lights and large basket lights. One tree on the premises even has a chandelier hanging from it. Cascading waterfalls and swampy lakes run throughout the venue. However, this venue is so incredibly cool and unique because of its antique Ferris Wheel and antique carousel and super cool red barn. So cool for bridal party pictures and romantics, and it gives this venue its very own uniqueness and boy do I love unique.  Can’t wait to shoot here again one day so call me if you want to get married here because I am in!

Vendors
Photography– Capturing Moments, Jaimee Hubert
Video– Garner Films
 Florist: Anne Levy at Agoura Flowers in Agoura Hills
DJ: David Turner at Music To Go Ent.
Cake: Wonder Bakery in Los Angeles
Dress: Rosa Clara
Bridesmaids Dresses: J. Crew

A Note from the Bride, Giannina:
Our wedding day was simply perfect. All of our friends and family made it so incredible and unforgettable for us. It was everything I always hoped my wedding day would be. Our evening ceremony under the most beautiful tree I’ve ever seen was performed by Reverend Gordon Dalbey, who married my parents in 1980. Definitely one of my favorite wedding facts! The peacock theme comes not only from my love for the colors and aesthetics of the bird and it’s feathers, but from the fact that they are wild in the town where I grew up. I wanted a vintage/rustic theme for the wedding which was accomplished through details as large as the gorgeous Calamigos Ranch venue and as small as, one of my favorites, our flower boxes which we made by hand out of wood from an old barn that fell at Aaron’s grandfathers ranch in Kansas where he grew up. I also grew up spending summers at my grandfather’s ranch in Argentina, so the whole theme fit perfectly with the rustic feel I wanted to go for. I found vintage postcards we used instead of a guest book. Our guests each wrote us a postcard and dropped it in a wooden basket. Lanterns and candles set the lighting on all the tables, along with recycled glass bottles used to hold the table names. We collected wine corks over the years and cut them to hold all the place cards for our guests. The whole day was made perfect not only by the flawless setting but our amazing families and friends who came from all over to support us and celebrate as we became husband and wife. A truly unforgettable day!

Calimigos Ranch in Malibu:
http://www.calamigos.com/weddings_about.asp

 The ceremony site was amazing, complete with whimsical trees and lights hanging throughout, absolutely loved it!