PHILADELPHIA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER – RUSTIN MICHAEL

Last Friday I was blessed to be able to capture Lorne & Elizabeth’s beautiful wedding at the gorgeous Montage Laguna Beach. When I arrived at the Montage, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day with bright blue skies and hopefully a beautiful sunset. We were not let down! I am so thankful that Elizabeth’s best friend Claudia connected me with this amazing couple. You can read a little more about their story on my post from their engagement session.

There are so many incredible images from Elizabeth & Lorne’s wedding that I can’t share them all here. Below you will find a selection of some of my favorites!

But first, here are some of the amazing people that helped make Lorne & Elizabeth’s wedding so amazing!!
Venue – Montage Laguna Beach
Cake – Royal Cakes
Flowers – Shirvan Design
Coordinator – Stacy Porras
DJ – Dance All Night
Photographer – Rustin Michael
2nd Photographer – Danny Mendoza
Assistant – Natalie Fong
Videography – Creative Art Video

The view from Elizabeth’s room. She dared not peak throughout getting ready.

The girls before getting dressed for the day

Elizabeth loves her dog Fidget. He was dressed for the day also.

Some gorgeous details

One of the benefits of getting married at The Montage is they loan out some of their bling from their collection. This is such a great benefit for brides!

Elizabeth writing a note into the card for Lorne.

Look at these slick cufflinks Elizabeth picked out for her groom!

Finally time to get dressed!

Elizabeth looked stunning!

Just before heading down for the ceremony a card from Lorne arrived.

Thanks to Danny Mendoza for capturing these ceremony details

Lorne patiently awaiting his bride.

Thanks to Danny Mendoza for capturing this great image.

Some additional spectators from the hotel watched on.

This is going to look amazing as an album spread. Created using 3 photos for a panoramic.

Thanks to Danny for capturing this angle of the ring exchange.

Natalie captured this great image.

I love these next two images!

The wedding party.

After some bridal party and family photos we headed down to the beach to catch the sunset.

Danny captured this photo of the reception room.

Look at this amazing cake!

Two of my favorites from the grand entrance.

Two from the first dance.

I love the way Elizabeth is looking at her Mom during this toast.

Thanks to Claude for giving a great speech providing me with some amazing moments!

Elizabeth watching Lorne during the mother/son dance.

Elizabeth & Lorne watching the same day edit by Creative Art Video

The real reason I like shooting weddings….

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of shooting Adam & Lauren’s wedding day at The Condor’s Nest Ranch in Pala, CA!  The weather was amazing and thankfully not too hot!  We also were blessed with some amazing lighting including an awesome sunset! You may remember the Griffith Park engagement session I posted of this wonderful couple a few months ago, if not you can check it out here.  Condor’s Nest ranch have a very vintage/rustic feel and look to it so that is reflected in how I processed the images.  There are so many amazing images from Adam & Lauren’s wedding day that I couldn’t post them all here on my blog, bellow you can find a selection of my favorites!

Here are some of the amazing people that helped Adam & Lauren’s wedding day go smoothly!!
Venue – The Condor’s Nest Ranch
Cake – Triple Cream Bakery
Flowers – L & S Design C0.
Dress – Ania Bridal
DJ – Universal DJ
Photographer – Rustin Michael
Assistant/2nd Photographer – the amazing Danny Mendoza!!!

I love this invitation!

Lauren getting ready for the day.

Here is Adam & Lauren’s save the date with their rings.

Another view of their rings.

Some more lovely details.

Some details for the guys.

Adam getting ready

I love these of Lauren getting her dress on.

We took a few quick portraits of Adam & Lauren before doing group shots. The sun was nearly directly above so I had to pull out my battery powered studio lights.

The wedding party

The Girls!

The Guys!

After finishing the family and group photos guest started arriving so we headed inside and out of sight to shoot some more photos on Adam & Lauren.

I love this portrait of Adam.

Lauren is such a beautiful bride!

Here are some from the ceremony. So many other great photos but can’t post them all!

After the ceremony we headed off to some of the cool locations on the ranch. I love these in the greenhouse.

A few from outside the barn

I love this one inside the barn.

Some details more details from the day.

Adam’s sister played guitar and sang during the first dance.

I love this photo Danny captured while I shooting the couple.

We had to grab a few more portrait with the beautiful sunset!

Here is the awesome wide angle image Danny captured while I was shooting tight.

Such a beautiful place to have a wedding!!