I am so excited to finally share Valerie + Paul's gorgeous Montage Beverly Hills wedding which I shot last June! Valerie and Paul are two of the most stylish people I know! Their love of couture fashion, graphic design, and color really showed through in their unique Marie Antoinette themed wedding! Valerie wore not one but two couture gowns-- one of which was a Monique L'Huillier-- and she also wore a pair of Manolo Blahnik's AND a pair of Louboutin's! What?! AMAZING! Paul was pretty styling himself... basically these two looked as if they just walked off the runway!They had a gorgeous full Catholic Mass on the terrace of the Montage and then had a fabulous reception-- complete with choreographed first dance-- also at the hotel! I had so much fun photographing this wedding! It was just so special! This was one of the weddings I photographed as a Callaway Gable Associate. Please check it out below!
LOVE their gorgeous rings!
In the words of Carrie Bradshaw, "Hello, Lover!" Yep Valerie's clothes are AH-MAZING!
LOVED their stationery!
Oh yeah, Valerie had an amazing second outfit too!
How fun are these bridesmaids?!
Valerie was beaming as she got dressed!
The ceremony was just GORGEOUS!
The First Kiss!!
Newlyweds!!!
Oh goodness, Valerie, you are FIERCE!
Stunners!!
Kiss on fire!!!
CUTIES!
Flash those Manolo's girl!
Veil love!
What a way to make an entrance!!
Sexy choreographed first dance!
Get it!
DIP!!! LOVE!
PARTYING!
Monika had the cutest hanger made for her dress!!
GORGEOUS Monika! Also love the perfume!
Oh goodness, Monika, you are STUNNING!!!
The ceremony at the courthouse was beautiful!
Monika cried tears of joy!!
Woohoo!!! NEWLYWEDS!!!
After the ceremony we had a lot of fun with the bridal party at the Courthouse! I call this one "Reservoir Dogs" hehe ;)
Giddy girls!
The cutest bridesmaids! They were ALL smiles!!
The whole bridal party was great to work with!!!
FIERCE!!
Then we let the group go to cocktail hour and had some time for some sexy and romantic portraits! Here we are in the 
These two are soooo good looking!
Morgan you are one lucky fellow! Monika is a a stunner!!!
Love!!!
There's that architecture!
Love!!
Swoooooon!!!
We then headed to the 
So sweet!!!
The reception was full of succulent details!!
And yellow everything!
Their first dance was so sweet!!
And then they got their party on.... :)
Th grounds of the Bacara are so lovely! And the staff was nice enough to let us use a golf cart so we could navigate the vast property!
L-O-V-E!
Seriously, how gorgeous are these two?!!
Grant was one incredibly cute ring-bearer! 
This is just adorable! I LOVE it!
An intimate ceremony on the beach...
...full of sincerity, love...
....and pure JOY!
NEWLYWEDS!
The GORGEOUS couple! LOVE them!
I always check every bridal party member to make sure they look great and know just how to pose!!
I very quietly capture the love!!! So sneaky!
Grand Entrance? Yeah, I'm on it!
Toasts? I got that covered too ;)
From bridals to the ceremony!!
Where's Ashleigh during the First Dance? Blending in with the crowd, but capturing every moment!
Bouquet shot? Check!
I'm pretty sure I was being hilarious and entertaining the crowd here... Clearly!
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE? I don't know, but I thought everyone could laugh at me and help me try to figure it out!
Ceremony-ing! This is me capturing some crowd reactions!
Beautiful portraits!
More bridal party awesomeness!
Sometimes perfect moments just happen before my lens (see the pic on the left) and then sometimes a gown needs to be fluffed to create a perfect moment (see the pic on the right).
"I now pronounce you..." hahah j/k-- I don't do that part guys! I am just posing them for a portrait! hehe
Whoa, that's a lot of photographers! This is what happens when you try to grab a group shot after the ceremony and the guests can see what you're doing... YIKES! Lesson: do a first look or move the guests into a separate cocktail area... otherwise the attack of the guests with point and shoots happens! hehe
Okay so I'll leave you with this. Every wedding I am ALWAYS asked to dance by at least one groomsmen. Yes, I am a groomsmen magnet. It's bizarre. I always turn them down because there is nothing professional about gettin' down on the dance floor with a groomsman when you are the photographer (and MARRIED)! But usually me refusal makes the guys try to woo me harder. Their flattery may make me blush (see below) but they never get the dance!
Stunning bride!!!!!
Rachel's shoes were cute!!
LOVE this shot of Rachel looking at her dress before getting it on!
The First Look was as cute as ever! This why I LOVE shooting First Look's! I mean, just soak in that expression on Rachel's face! PRICELESS!
A short portrait break for some fierceness!!
How cute is Rachel with her bridesmaids??
Pretty flowers!
After the ceremony, we had some vineyard fun!
Because the light was still so harsh and the sun was still so high during the romantics, we were very limited on where we could go or how we could move! It's so hard to create variety in situations like that... So that is why I LOVED being able to whip out the off-camera flash and create a more edgy and dramatic look. Though natural light is always my fave, sometimes artificial light can be a life-saver and add a little extra pizzazz to a portrait session!
FIERCE!
Cute little details!
The night ended with some toasts that, like I said, were so funny they brought the crowd to tears! The proof is in the picture! ;)
To see more photos for this love-filled winery wedding 
The ceremony set up turned out SO spectacular. It truly looks like Dali painted it. I am endlessly impressed with the design by 
My BFF's Mandi + Dan agreed to model for this shoot! Which was perfect because not only do I adore them, they are also both actors so they really got into the characters of Dali and his wife Gala. But even better than all that is Mandi and Dan got engaged just weeks before the shoot!! Hooray! So actually you will be seeing more of them in the next year as I'll be shooting their engagement and wedding! :)
Mandi's real engagement ring is the most unique ring I've EVER seen! Truly a work of art! It's pretty surreal if you ask me, so it quickly became part of the shoot!
FIERCE!
Young Salvador Dali realness! It's almost eerie how much Dan looked like him!
Work it!
Mandi's attire is from the new 
My love Amber of 
Sigh.... the romance of it all!!
Every detail was perfectly coordinated by Olivia of 
The lovely cake was by 
And stay tuned for my favorite photos from this incredible shoot!
