Beautiful Day Photography’s Weblog

What can I say? Over the past week I feel that I have met lifelong friends in LeDon and Romain. LeDon and I have been emailing over the past few months about her October wedding and I felt like we had known each other for years. They live in Houston and due to the hurricanes and devastation, we were not sure the wedding was even going to happen. I SWEAR the week leading up to their Wayfarers Chapel wedding was probably MORE of a whirlwind for them, but through it all we have had a TON of great food, fun and OF COURSE a GORGEOUS wedding full of lots of love. Although I CAN NOT WAIT for their Bordeaux, France destination wedding next September, I think their USA, Southern Cali wedding was very charming, elegant and fun. I had the supreme pleasure of putting together QUITE the power posse of vendors that will hopefully be able to attend in France as well; The UBER fabulous Ricardo Luna with Luna Gardens for flowers, The one and only Tara Dowburd-Luftman for make-up, Mel with Classy Chassis and Jovina Kelly-Pass with Total Body Management..who’s healing hands came to the rescue NUMEROUS times that crazy week:) ..Thanks to the ever-famous, FABULOUSLY talented culinary artist, Chef Christophe Eme, owner and Executive Chef of Ortolan Restaurant in Hollywood, California ( and good friend of Romain’s) their “small, intimate” reception turned into a 12 course extravaganza of gourmet food and wine! JUST my style! OF COURSE, NO good wedding ends without the bride and groom cramming into the back of my car…THE TOYOTA RAV 4…LIMITED EDITION, full of presents and flowers, for a lift home…OR the VERY INTIMATE acapella serenade that Romain gave to LeDon in their kitchen (STILL wearing their wedding gear)..I could NOT resist getting out my camera to capture that moment…even though it was like 1am and it TECHNICALLY was their honeymoon night and I practically jumped into their hot tub I was having such a GREAT time…until I realized that It was DEFINITELY time for me to go home!!! LOL. If you want to check out more photos from this WONDERFUL evening, please click on this link.