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    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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You may have noticed a flurry of new posts from us here at MWP (Which we pronounce as “Moop.” Now that you know that super piece of MWP trivia, your life has been enriched. You’re welcome). As we are winding down from the 2012 season and preparing for our 2013 wedding season we have been slapped with the realization that we had SO many weddings and engagements that we want to share with everyone! Since we get the opportunity to work with many, many, many awesome couples every year and we are always trying to get them their wedding photos as quickly as possible, we often don’t get a chance to post all of our work for everyone else to see. So one of our 2013 goals is to post more whenever we have a chance and we have a chance right now!!! So, hold on to your hats interwebs. Lots more posts are coming in the next couple weeks!

With that said, we are super-stoked to be sharing Maura and Jeff’s gorgeous 2011 San Diego private estate wedding with you today. These two super heroes of stylishness rented a gorgeous home on the beach for their small wedding and it turned out beautifully! This wedding had everything: laughter, love, an amadowergirl (You know. It’s that thing when you have an amazingly adorable flower girl). It was awesome. :)

 

by Marianne Sanada

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  • January 29, 2013 - 7:43 pm

    Cindy McClaskey Wilson - Wowzer! What a great couple. Loved the B & G shots!ReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 6:41 pm

    Dale Lempa - Awesome, crisp textures. Great details, great emotions.ReplyCancel

  • January 30, 2013 - 1:38 am

    Jessica Erin - This is the first I've been able to see a lot of the wedding pictures! They're beautiful!ReplyCancel

  • January 30, 2013 - 6:08 am

    Bambi Martin - Lovely!ReplyCancel

  • January 30, 2013 - 11:15 am

    Nathan - Fun shoot. Beautiful.ReplyCancel

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Rincon Beach Club in Santa Barbara was such a great venue for Aimee and Derek’s beach wedding! To quote Aimee: “Derek and I are both very casual, laid-back people who love the beach and everything about Carpinteria and Santa Barbara. I feel that Rincon Beach Club is different and more casual than a traditional wedding at a country club or hotel ballroom. The decor I’m planning on having will be more rustic/beach chic to help add to the casual intimate wedding I envision.” Nailed it! :)

by Marianne Sanada

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  • January 24, 2013 - 11:02 pm

    Jennifer Simonds - LOVE these pictures! I'm getting so excited for our big day, can't wait, you and your honey ROCK!ReplyCancel

  • January 24, 2013 - 8:39 pm

    Dale Lempa - Wow, awesome colors. Great captures; I’m sure they will love these.ReplyCancel

  • January 28, 2013 - 11:25 pm

    Kellee Walsh - Absolutely gorgeous Marianne! I love the colours. Everyone looks so relaxed and happy too! Great work.ReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 5:21 am

    kong wai - Beautiful !! love the color so muchReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 9:07 am

    Elissa - This is such a beautiful wedding. I love beach ceremonies :)ReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 8:34 pm

    Kelsie Taylor - this wedding looks like so much fun! i love that push up photo!ReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 10:07 pm

    Gavin Farrington - So many awesome moments. Beautiful wedding, beautiful photos!ReplyCancel

  • January 29, 2013 - 10:47 pm

    Darin Collison - What a gorgeously captured beach wedding. Well done.ReplyCancel

  • February 5, 2013 - 4:20 pm

    JC Page - what an amazing wedding – so many wonderful compositions. Great light and fabulous color. You REALLY nailed this one. Great work!!!ReplyCancel

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 Sacred Sands in Joshua Tree has to be the winner of our most unique venue choice of the year award. As you will see in the photos below, Sacred Sands is out in the middle of the desert. Like, really out in the middle of the desert. True story: as we were parking the car Joe said “Wow! This place is really off the beaten path! I wonder if we will see any snakes or anything.” Not 15 seconds later we saw a snake making its way around the property fence! Don’t let that story give you the wrong impression though. Sacred Sands and Joshua Tree are absolutely gorgeous! It was especially perfect for Lindsey and Dave. They are a sweet, kind of reserved, creative, outdoorsy, adventure loving type of couple. So, a small, intimate, Joshua Tree wedding was the perfect choice for Lindsey and Dave’s wedding celebration. They also had the awesome idea of having their guests write wishes for them as a couple and attach them to a wish tree. At the end of the night they tossed the wishes into a fire and the resulting fire and smoke was a really cool and passionate metaphor for the wishes being released out into the world to take action. What a fun idea!

 

Sacred Sands Resort Wedding

by Marianne Sanada

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  • January 24, 2013 - 5:05 am

    Dale Lempa - Wow, awesome captures. Great style.ReplyCancel

  • January 24, 2013 - 3:02 pm

    Brittany - Amazing location, light, details, and emotion. So so beautiful!ReplyCancel

  • January 24, 2013 - 4:24 pm

    Dustin Allison - Wow! Great set of photos, so many great moments captured!ReplyCancel

  • January 24, 2013 - 11:27 pm

    Alyssa Schroeder - I am just so in love with those sunset desert photos. I can hardly handle it. STUNNING.ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 11:49 am

    dylan - this is perfection.. desert weddings are the best :)ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 12:41 pm

    Leah Muse - Um, could this location be any more ridiculously gorgeous? Such a beautiful day.ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 12:58 pm

    Kyle - This looks just like the north of Chile!

    And wow, such stunning, romantic photos!ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 1:17 pm

    Jim Murphy - Beautiful wedding. Great job capturing it. Love that wide shot of the couple in the desert.ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 6:20 pm

    Kelsie Taylor - that dress is gorgeous, and you did a great job capturing the mood of the desertReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 6:33 pm

    Shyann - Love your use of light and the couples venue choice!! :)ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 8:25 pm

    Denise - These are done with grace and stunning lighting. Fantastic, inspiring work! What a beautiful family gathering too!ReplyCancel

  • January 25, 2013 - 10:03 pm

    Jessie - These are so beautiful! I love the shot of them walking down the highway! Happily Ever After!ReplyCancel

  • January 26, 2013 - 2:01 pm

    Johanna - I’m completely in love with this couple. From their choice of the place to get married in to the flowers in her hair. So awesome. Beautiful work. <3ReplyCancel

  • January 28, 2013 - 1:52 am

    Tenielle - These are so ridiculously beautiful, I cannot even begin to believe there’s a place as beautiful as that. Those sunshine lapped portraits are beyond, beyond breathtaking. Amazing!!!!!ReplyCancel

  • February 4, 2013 - 12:11 am

    Jenny GG - what a gorgeous location! love the shot of the family style reception table and the lights – nice work!ReplyCancel