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  • Welcome to our blog!

    We are a husband+wife wedding photography team based out of Southern California. We also travel to places far and wide to capture beautiful and quirky moments for our clients.

    We are so blessed to be able to do what we love most and share our passion for photography and people with you!  Please feel free to peruse through posts and come back as we consistently add new images from recent weddings, engagements, and inspiration sessions as well as tips/ideas for brides. 

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    - Marianne + Joe

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Posted in Maravilla Gardens, Photography, Weddings

Oh Maravilla Gardens how we love thee.

You may notice we are there quite a bit and we are glad to be! We love the amazing staff/owners so so much and it’s always a gorgeous day full of beautiful photos, fun times, amazing couples and tasty dinner. It’s like photographing a wedding at home and it just feels right. All of our couples are amazing (of course) and our Maravilla couples are always (always) wonderful to work with and get to know through their wedding planning and day of. Dana + Ryan are sweet and full of fun. We got to know them because Dana’s sister was in another couples wedding who we photographed and we absolutely LOVE when we get to see guests, families, friends, and past couples at over and over again at future weddings.

So thank you to all the wonderful people we meet at weddings (or random places) who continue to think of us for their friends/family weddings (and their own!). We appreciate you more than you could know.

 

by Marianne Sanada

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Posted in Photography

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If you’re new to our blog you may not know we (Marianne + Joe) recently went from being Marianne Wilson Photography to The Sanadas. The Sanadas is a bit more of an appropriate name for us since we are a husband and wife photography team (and Marianne’s last name is Sanada now. Wilson was her maiden name).  With the new business name came some new branding and a new website (www.TheSanadas.com). The re-brand process was a long one, but we did it! As we were wrapping up some of the initial element designs (the logo etc) we were contacted by USB Memory Direct to see if we were in need of some new USBs for our clients and if we would be interested in trying them out to see if they were a good fit for us and so we could review them. As luck would have it we WERE in need of new USBs for couples that fit our branding. We worked with their team to come up with a fun but easy USB design (with these swivel USBs – you can see the front and back in the photos) and are extremely happy with the quality we received from them. So if you happen to be a photographer and not a wedding couple and you need some new packaging, you may want to check them out (end plug, haha).

We are excited to share some of our new packaging** (that may include a few surprises not pictured). We are always tweaking things to make them special for our couples, but here is just a taste!

 

 

**vintage camera not included

by Marianne Sanada

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Posted in Engagements, Photography

Who wants to see some more beautiful beach engagements? We have a few coming up over the next few weeks for you!

Words really cannot express how sweet and loving Faryn and Brandon are. Truly it is hard to explain how these two are so lovely and wonderful even after only knowing them a short while. If you follow us on social media (facebook | instagram specifically) you know the past few months have been a whirlwind of fairly devastating events in our lives. We won’t go into all the details (we want you to smile when reading this post not cry afterall!) but after each event we always received kind words and more from these two without fail. Just sweet messages and kind actions that really continue to make us so thankful for the couples we are blessed and lucky to work with year after year. Overall the past few months have been trying but in that heartache our hearts have also been so incredibly full from each and every one of you who has reached out just to say “hey” or “we’re thinking of you two”.

We are so excited to see everyone for this 2019 season and celebrate your amazing and wonderful times with each other and your friends and families. We have incredible weddings like Faryn + Brandon’s to look forward too and we will also be seeing a few of our past wedding couples to celebrate their growing families (always such an honor and a total trip!).

We hope you enjoy a few of our favorites from this beautiful and fun Malibu engagement session with two beautiful and fun souls.

 

by Marianne Sanada

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Posted in Engagements, Photography, Portraits

It has been a little bit rainy and gloomy lately in our neck of the woods. Honestly though we absolutely love the rain (maybe it’s because we don’t get a ton of it where we are located in Southern California or maybe it’s just the freshness of the air and the sounds of the rain hitting the roof…probably all of it) we understand not everyone shares our affection of wet pavement so we decided to post something a little brighter today with this gorgeous engagement session below.

So! In honor of brighter and sunnier days (of many we are sure to come) and the sunshine to come (in a location that is sadly currently in a state of distress from being burnt by the local Woolsey fire) we bring to you Rory and Greg’s light and bright engagement photo session that is full of love and excitement for the future.

 

by Marianne Sanada

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