This Beverly Hills Wedding Reception was super unique! Planned at the Lawry’s Steak House in LA, it really was a beautiful spot with a unique dinner service. The salad portion of the meal was a cool sight, they put on a show for you and it is fun. The actual dinner is served in front of you, where chefs have big portions of prime rib cut to your liking. The DJ Company did a great job with the lighting and party and they are super popular in the LA area, check out their site at www.thedjaycompany.com. Joanna from http://www.jsoiree-events.com/ did a fabulous job designing and coordinating this entire wedding. For part 1 of this wedding including the getting ready’s, ceremony, and romantics, check out this link: http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2012/02/downtown-la-wedding.html

Lawry’s Prime Rib house in Beverly Hills:
http://www.lawrysonline.com/lawrys-primerib/beverly-hills/private-events/weddings.aspx

 The bride is Mexican and the Groom is Korean, so they had a spread of some very yummy looking Korean food that I have never seen before!

I am doing this wedding in a 2 Part Blog because the venues were simply fantastic! There are too many images I want to show so I will start with the first half of the wedding of Valorie and Kenneth recently wed in Downtown Los Angeles, and their reception followed in Beverly Hills. We started their “Getting Ready” pictures at the Fabulous JW Marriot LIVE right in the heart of Downtown LA. Their wedding happened to be the morning of the LA Marathon which was really cool walking to the hotel as the racers were running right by the hotel. The lobby of this hotel was perfect for the couples first glance. They wanted to see each other before the wedding so that they could get plenty of great romantics, and to allow the timeline to run a little smoother. It makes for a great wedding day when the couple see’s each other ahead of time for more than one reason. Below you can also see that the bride was still full of tears while walking down the isle and the moment is not taken away from and still incredibly meaningful. This cute couple decided to not have a bridal party, which I have blogged about before, I simply LOVE it! It just seems like the day is more about the couple when there is no bridal party and is so much simpler and enjoyable for the couple. Enjoy this LA wedding and watch for part 2 of this blog which will showcase more romantics, details, and their gorgeous wedding reception at Lawry’s in Beverly Hills. Joanna Chong with www.jsoiree-events.com did a fabulous job coordinating this wedding and she was fun and very easy and flexible to work with, she really took care of my assistant and I. Jay with the DJ Company will also be featured in the next blog!


I LOVE this lovely note from Valorie the bride below:

The view out of Valorie’s room for Getting Ready’s

The First Glance Set up

It NEVER rains in LA! So Cool for once, and it is Good Luck!

 The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles in an AMAZING church!

Find Part 2 of this Blog, Wedding Reception at:
http://jaimeehubert.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-beverly-hills-wedding-reception.html

 

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I LOVE shooting my families year after year, they are almost always my former brides and grooms, like this family. I get to watch them fall in love on the engagement shoot, stand before them on their wedding day, photograph their pregnancy pictures, then photograph their beautiful babies and then eventually their family, with multiple kids, dogs, and all. It is really cool to watch and be a part of documenting a couples lives together! Some families I have shot for over 7 years and the kids know exactly who I am and are excited for their shoots, it is fun to watch them grow and be their family photograper. I travel to Orange County every 6-8 weeks to shoot weddings and always usually do a shoot day to accommodate all of my former couples and their families. Congrats Veronica and Daniel on your gorgeous little boy Dominick!

I had so much fun shooting for fun the other night with a few other local photographers. There is a local photographers board that is very active and the photographers get together often to do fun shoots with each other and but their heads together, it is a really cool group. When I saw a “Fire Painting” night I thought that was really interesting. Come to find out they needed a location and my backyard was perfect. You need a wide open space to pull this off. I had no idea what we were doing but once I saw some of the results I was really excited, as I have not shot for fun in almost a decade!

What you are seeing here is Steel Wool (fine) stuffed in a whisk and tied to a cord. There is a person in all of these photos swinging the cord and the results are the steel wool breaks apart and a lot of sparks fly. Some of the pics she had one cord that she was spinning and for a few of them she was spinning 2 cords. I shot with my Canon 5D Mark II and a 14mm wide angle “fish eye” lens. With long exposures of 10-30 seconds you get really cool images. There was a little trial and error getting the right exposures down, the correct white balance, low ISO, and the fire painter took a few tries to get it down. The steel wool did not last as long as we had hoped in some cases only 10-20 seconds. Even though this was a first attempt I love the results. We will be doing this again and begin to perfect it and come up with new ideas and different locations. You notice you can see the person in some of the images and this was done using an off camera flash to illuminate her face while spinning the cord in a perfect circle.

Welcome to the World Levi and Peyton! Congrats to their parents as well, Bethany and Jason, on their new set of boys and their 4th and 5th child! These babies are just adorable and it was my fist time shooting twins, I have shot triplets before but they were older, and posing two babies is a little different then one. Enjoy these cute little guys and I will be shooting them their entire lives so you will get to watch them grow up with me! 

I am definitely not “a baby photographer” since I mainly specialize in weddings and families. Especially since I have seen what photographers that specialize in babies have been doing the last few years; cute props, crazy nets and gauze, hammocks, unique crocheted hats and amazing poses….a lot of them resemble Anne Geddes work! However my brides all shortly after the wedding start having babies, so I have always done pregnancy and new baby shoots and their homes. By the way, having a photographer come to your home to do any type of intimate shoot is amazing, especially when you have 5 kids and one is a set of twins, leaving the house for a photo shoot does not exactly sound fun.

My shoots with babies are basic especially with twins….but these two beautiful boys don’t need any extra, just their adorable faces and I even got smiles! Love these guys!

I love this cute couple who will be wed in just over a month at the Muckenthaler Mansion in Fullerton, California. It is a gorgeous property and Lisa is going to make a gorgeous bride so I can’t wait to shoot it! Plus, it is a daytime wedding which I absolutely love and NO bridal party, which I am personally a huge fan of for many reasons. Lisa had saw a wedding blog in which I had shot at the Fullerton Arboretum and thought it would be the perfect location for her and Daniel’s engagement shoot! I agree with her since I was married at the Fullerton Arboretum over 12 years ago and love the many locations you have to shoot. 

Thank you to Ceremony Magazine for choosing to showcase this gorgeous Surf and Sand Wedding on the California Wedding Wave. Natalie & Phil had  an amazing beach front wedding ceremony and an amazing reception, coordinated and designed by Natalie Good with A Good Affair this past August. Natalie’s doggy was also her flower girl! I loved this wedding and I chose it on my website as one of the “featured” wedding galleries. Click the link below to see my wedding on Ceremony’s website/Blog!

Check me out on California Wedding Wave!
http://www.californiaweddingwave.com/2012/01/30/real-wedding-natalie-phil/