Wedding Blog

We officially booked our engagement session for August!

I realize that I haven’t yet blogged about my wedding photographers, although this is the one aspect of the wedding that I’m most excited about. Mr. Eggplant and I both I love and appreciate the art of photography. I’m always amazed when photographers can capture shots that come alive through such a still medium, and I never tire of studying a well-composed picture. For both of us, photography was one area we were willing to splurge.

A few weeks after our engagement date, Mr. Eggplant and I were all set to go with photographer Jennifer Skog… until Mr. Eggplant realized that he forgot to let her know that we changed our wedding date! Of course, Jennifer was already booked for our new wedding date. I was quite sad, because I really loved her work, she was within our budget, and totally sweet as well.

Enter Jennifer Kloss, our new wedding photographer! Although we happened upon her randomly, it turned out that she would be photographing our former photographer’s upcoming wedding (Jennifer Skog)! I was ecstatic because I knew that if another photographer trusted Jennifer Kloss’ services for her own wedding, she was obviously a great artist.

Just as Mr. Eggplant was just about to sign the contract, I received a sad email from Jennifer #2. One of her family members had decided to get married on our wedding date. Because her schedule was super packed as a photographer, our weekend was the only date that she was not yet booked for an event. Jennifer #2 wanted to make her schedule as open as possible for her family so she had to forgo our wedding.  I totally understood, but I was still bummed for many weeks.

Until…. the third time was a charm! I have the signed contract to prove it.  We hired Ray and Erwin from Apertura Photography to document our wedding, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I first discovered the duo after they photographed another friend’s wedding last year and I was blown away by their talent. Apertura was also recommended to us by several other photographers that were unavailable for our wedding date (a email from another extremely talented photographer read, “Have you seen Aperturaphoto.com? They are a two-man team based in SoCal and are amazing photographers. I would have them shoot my wedding any day of the week.”).

Since Apertura is from southern California, I exceeded our original photography budget because I did not figure on paying for travel and lodging. Mr. Eggplant has been trying to cut wedding costs in other areas, but we’re both thrilled to trust them with our wedding! We were originally going to make a trip to LA to take our engagement portraits at Disneyland (our favorite place), but by chance Apertura will be visiting northern California in August for another wedding. We’ll be taking portraits in SF, which is perfect because that’s where we got engaged.

Below are some of my favorite engagement shots from Apertura’s blog:

(Our friends’ engagement shoot - taken at Ikea!)

I love how much personality is captured in their pictures!