A couple of weeks ago, Natalie Williams Asked me to photograph an Orange County wedding with it’s ceremony at St. Columban Catholic Church and reception at Anaheim. Natalie is a really good friend of mine, and it’s always fun working with her.

John picked out the boutonniere himself, I like what the florist did, it looks really nice.

Amy’s bouquet is full of fall inspirations, so pretty !

I think it’s ultra fab to wear gorgeous shoes to your own wedding.

please visit Natalie’s blog for more photos.

Enjoy,

Jenny Liu

Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Portfolio | Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Blog | email: jenny@jennyliuphoto.com | phone: 310-614-1014

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of  joining Jeff from Jeff Neal Photography to shoot a wedding at the Arroyo Trabuco Golf club

Andrew and Megan’s wedding day schedule was super relaxed, and they allocated a lot of down time so they can relax and enjoy their day.

Megan’s bridesmaid’s took the time to steam iron her dress, making sure it’s perfect for Megan.

The rustic theme in the getting ready room adds something extra in photos. I love the texture !

When I was walking around the reception room, I saw this picture frame with a quote: ” Once in a while…. right in the middle of an ordinary life… love comes along and brings you a fairytale”

As some of you might know, I started my photography business with the business name Fairytale Dreamer Photography because on my wedding day, I want to be the princess and my husband to be the prince in a fairytale…. Even if it’s just for a couple of hours, that’s all I’m asking for.

So when I saw that quote, I smiled. The quote totally gets me, and my view of love and weddings.

Besides the awesome wedding cake, each table has a real cake as the center piece, and there are four different flavors. They are all decorated beautifully with variety of flowers. If you want to taste the different flavors of cake, you can walk to another table, and exchange a piece.  What a great idea ! It gets wedding guests to socialize while having delicious dessert !

Enjoy,

Jenny Liu

Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Portfolio | Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Blog | email: jenny@jennyliuphoto.com | phone: 310-614-1014

Jessica Claire has always been a photographer role model of mine.  Her relaxed yet glamourous photos always intrigues me.

When I saw that Jessica Claire is going to have her first workshop, I was so excited ! I couldn’t wait to meet her and see her work! Unfortunately I was in a meeting when Jessica’s workshop registration opened. By the time my meeting was over, her workshop had already been filled….

Lucky me, a couple of weeks later, Jessica announced a 2nd workshop, just a day later than the first one ! I was thrilled ! This time, I made sure that I was free when registration opened, and was able to secure a spot in the worshop.

We started the day with lecture, business sides of wedding photography.  Jessica emphasize on individuality and understand ourselves; so we can show our personality through photography.

Jessica went above and beyond for the workshop attendees, she decided to have a mock wedding and reception setup so the workshop attendees can experience first hand what she does during a wedding. What an awesome idea !

Our models Gena and Jeff didn’t hire a wedding photographer on their wedding day four years ago. I’m so glad that they were able to get gorgeous wedding photos from Jessica and a bunch of other wedding photographers four years later !

We started with getting ready part of the day. Gena, our beautiful model, looks so graceful!

Gena even brought cute shoes  that totally fits the vintage theme !

As a wedding photographer, we often sees the stress that the couple experience prior to the wedding. So it’s a really good idea to do a first look of your future spouse prior to the ceremony. This ease that tension, and gives the couple much more time for wedding portraits, and time to talk to family and friends during cocktail hour.

I adore the chandelier above the ceremony location. So pretty !

Jessica also invited Michael Norwood and his family to be apart of the wedding party, including their little girl as the flower girl.

First dance !  I love the way Gena looks Jeff when he spins her !

Enjoy,

Jenny Liu

Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Portfolio | Jenny Liu Wedding Photography Blog | email: jenny@jennyliuphoto.com | phone: 310-614-1014

The morning of July 31, I woke up to my e-mail alert sound. Turned over with only one of my eyes open, to see who emailed me. To my surprise, it was Mike Colon’s newsletter telling me to join him in sunny Newport Coast for  his brand new 1-Day Wedding Photography Workshop! There are only 7 seats and I belong in one of them!

I was still half asleep at the time, put my phone down,  turned back and closed my eyes. Then it  hit me, Mike Colon, a well known Orange County Wedding Photographer, is having a one day wedding photography workshop here in Newport Beach with only 7 seats !  I jumped up, sat on the edge of my bed, and used my iphone to click on the wedding photography workshop link. Why didn’t I just turned on my computer and register there? I’m not sure, I must be still half asleep.

When I clicked on the wedding photography workshop page, only one seat was left. Luckily, during the time that I was filling out my wedding photography workshop registration, no one was registering at the same time and I got the last seat !

On the day of the wedding photography workshop, I was nervous, I was excited, mixed emotions are running through my veins.  I checked my equipment twice, printed out the direction, and off I go… to a halting stop on the interstate 405… with 30 miles to Newport Beach!  The entire southbound of the 405 freeway was stopped…. besides the cars driving on the shoulder trying to get to surface streets.  My eyes are wide open, cannot believe what I’m seeing. Not now! I’m thinking to myself, Not today !  I checked the traffic sites and there wasn’t any accidents on this stretch, I have no clue what’s going on…. 15 minutes later, we’re moving again, and it was apparent why we all had to wait… Various sized rocks fell from a large truck, and any one of those rocks can put a hole through a car’s windshield. They stopped traffic to clean it up for the morning commuters.  I’m not sure when the rocks fell, but I’m so glad they came out and cleaned up the freeway. I much rather wait 15 minutes and not get a cracked windshield driving to the wedding photography workshop !

Mike started out the wedding photography workshop with a lecture. He explained things in great detail and made it was very easy to understand and remember.

After the temperature cooled a little bit, Mike took the wedding photography workshop attendees outside for a sunset photoshoot. He  encouraged us to try different things,  experiment with ideas and technical settings that we wouldn’t otherwise have a chance to try.

Hair stylist: Ashlee Zannitto

Makeup artist: Ashely Birkeland from Beautiful You

I love the light on Katie’s skin, it’s so soft and creamy!

I really like the mood in this shot, captured as Katie and Sarah cross paths on the grass field.

Sarah’s blond hair and tan skin really pops against the dry grass field.  Love it !

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Jasmine Star, a Orange County Wedding Photographer, has been a great inspiration for my wedding photography for a long time.

Early this year, she did an photo session for Joe and I : Anytime Session with Jasmine Star , and I loved the way she interacts with her clients, and her upbeat energy makes the session very easy yet relaxed. So when I heard that she started doing wedding photography workshops, I was thrilled. I wanted to attend, but so are many of her photography blog readers.

Six months has passed since Jasmine Star’s first Orange County Wedding Photographer workshop, one morning, I woke up to an email, that says Jasmine’s workshop is open for registration, I wasn’t going to let this one pass… And I am so glad that I didn’t. I walked away with tremendous amount of information.

Wedding Photography workshops are continuing education for wedding photographers . Since wedding photography is a very trendy business, we as wedding photographers need to be up to date with the current photography trend and what couple’s are looking for these days. Jasmine’s workshop touched on topics in all aspects of wedding photography, from natural light to branding, there were a lot of good information given at the wedding photography workshop.

The morning of the workshop,  I woke up long before the alarm went off.  One of my dogs, Moochi, who likes to sleep on my pillow, lifted up his head and opened one of his eyes to see why I was tossing and turning and woke him up from his beauty sleep.  But I couldn’t help it.  Mix emotions of excitement and nervousness makes it hard to go back to bed. Soon after, I got up, got a cup of  hazelnut coffee and got on my way.

Everyone at the workshop received a hand written note from Jasmine, also included are a notepad and a pen.

The whole morning were lectures in all aspects of wedding photography, emphasize on working smarter, more efficient and client relations, categorized by what Jasmine called eight components of branding.  What really stuck with me was the idea that a wedding photographer can take the best photo when the photographer and the clients are completely comfortable with each other.

Shortly after lunch, we walk around for an outdoor photo session with the fabulous duo, Vern and Melinda.

Make up and hair are by Vivian Tran from All Made Up Team

By this time, it felt like 100 degrees outside.  It was HOT! Vivian Tran from the All made up team was there to touch up Vern and Melinda’s faces, and our couple are great sports, didn’t compliant at all, and kept going until the end.

Jasmine made sure all of our questions are answered and wrapped up the day with awesome photoshop post processing techniques and explained her work flow.  I walked away with wealth of information that will probably take me three weeks to digest and process. It was an awesome experience !

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