Megan Hayes

Eric and I headed to the coast on a Saturday morning to shoot Mitch and Melinda’s wedding in Ventura, California. We enjoyed the drive and were excited to start shooting such a sweet couple. We met Mitch and Melinda through Mitch’s dad who is a photographer here in Lancaster. I knew when I met them that their wedding day would be relaxed and beautiful and it was just that. We and enjoyed the day and watching these two become one was beautiful! When I gave them their wedding package today they gave me a hug!! Awesome clients and beautiful people inside and out!

Melinda and her bridesmaids got ready at the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Hotel and Resort which is where we took most the the portraits as well. The grounds were gorgeous! Thank you Mitch and Melinda for letting us document this amazing time in your lives!

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Vendors:
Wedding gown:  Davids Bridal in Burbank, CA
Tux:  Kenneth Cole from  Mens Warehouse at the  Antelope Valley Mall
Florist:  Acton Country Flowers
Hair:  Salon Panache
Cake:  First Class Cakes
Venue: Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet

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The Bullock’s are from Georgia and their “ya’ll” and “ain’t” talk was a sweet reminder of our family back in Virginia. The bullocks were recently here in California for Doug’s college graduation and wanted to get some family photos as a gift to their mom for Mother’s Day. Markie, their oldest son and his wife Christy are starting an orphanage in Mexico. Debbie and I met in college and I was one of her bridesmaids back in 2005.  Debbie and her husband Alan live in Georgia and love serving at their local church. Doug and his wife Amber recently moved to Colorado where they serve on staff at a Front Range Baptist Church.

Although this family is not so close on the map they certainly are very close in each others hearts. It was a joy to take their family photos and spend a little time with them. They are a genuine and beautiful family.

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Drew and Josh are graduating! Something I learned about these boys in the process of getting to know them before their session is that although they are twins they have different birthdays! Drew was born after midnight so his birthday the day after Josh’s. I guess this means that mom and dad can’t make them split their presents.

For their senior pictures we headed out to the back side of the desert in the Antelope Valley and found a couple cool locations. Drew loves to play the guitar so we pulled it out a few times and Josh is into photography and piano.  I gave Josh my second camera to hold for some of the pictures and I’m pretty sure he would have liked to keep it. Josh brought along his keyboard and lugged the heavy thing up the hill to get to the rocks where we were shooting.  Both of them were such a blast to shoot and I got my exercise in at the same time from climbing up the rocks. It was a win win photo shoot!  Congrats guys on graduating!

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Here’s a little sneak peek from Melodie and Jayson’s engagement session in Palmdale, California.

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Here’s a little sneak peak from Mitch and Melinda’s wedding today in Ventura, CA at Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet.

Such a sweet couple and so happy for what God had done in their lives!

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Just a short sneak peek from a senior session from last weekend.

Climbed up in the rocks of the high desert for these boys! A little scared I was going to get a snake bite. Glad I didn’t.

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To say the least I absolutely love this family! I met Janelle while we were in college and we’ve been best buds ever since. We were both from opposite ends of the great state of Oregon and to make a long story short we ended up finding out that her dad and my uncle knew one another quite well. Janelle went to school with my cousins and Janelle’s dad had worked with my uncle on construction projects. What a small world!  Jonathan, Janelle and their son Josiah now live in Florida and while they were out visiting last week we got together for a little family shoot at the park. Thanks for the fun time Gibbs Family!! Love you guys!

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My favorite

We gave Josiah blueberries to keep him happy for the second half of the session so I  had to get pictures with his mouth closed because it was fill with blueness.

Blueberries all gone now.   I was holding his favorite book full of trucks and tractors to get a good smile. He loves tractors!

Dada threw him up in the air a few times but Josiah wasn’t too sure about going too high.

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