: Mr. & Mrs. Eric & Angela Moellenkamp

Eric & Angela 001, originally uploaded by Parris Studios:.

M is for Moellenkamp. M in Roman numerals is 1,000. 1,000 ways, Eric & Angela are awesome!

Mahalo to the following people:
Christian Kaysen for shooting with me
St. Margaret Mary Parish for the wedding site
Red Hill Country Club for the reception site

  

: Angela & Eric's Engagement

07 Eller Pics 001, originally uploaded by Parris Studios:.

E is for Engagement. A is for Awesome. EA/AE, yup & yup!

PS: Alissa & Eric's wedding

It all started with a bear. She had no idea that this long-haired philosopher, who played guitar in the band, liked her at all. Then the “Eric bear” made his appearance, which leads us to Sunday, August 12th… their wedding day! Turns out the bear had some crazy moves! Guys, take note…

I had the distinct honor of shooting Alissa and Eric’s wedding, with the help of my friend and great photographer, Sandra Salisbury. Everyone was amazing, the bridal party looked sharp (this translates to “beautiful” for the girls) and was so fun. All the details looked great… great venue, great DJ, great people… like I said, amazing!!

Alissa and Eric are such wonderful people who have such a compassionate heart and truly are some of the greatest people around! And, they’re super good looking, which makes capturing those moments so easy!! Wonderful people, who have strong family ties (not the Michael J. Fox version) and a deep, respectful love of one another made it truly an honor to be there.

So I met up with the girls early that morning for some getting ready shots. Angela Blake (who had been married for two weeks) was pulling double duty as a bridesmaid and make up artist. And a wonderful job she did!

The DJ, Suzanne from MorningStar Entertainment, did a great job and had a little “trick” to play on people After some food and toasts (which were funny and touching), she had everyone get on the dance floor for a group picture… here it is, all of ‘em!

A ginormous thank you to the entire wedding party… Tim, Lynette, Peter, Sue, Andrea, Michelle, Kristin, Angela, Jessica C., Jessica G., Morgan, Harry, Brian N., Harry, Mervin, Kurtz, Brian S., David & Isaac… THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! And be sure to check out Sandra’s blog for some more pictures from the day!

"Hello, I'm Eric Bear, and I'll be your love connection..."




I love this shot of Jessica C, light, composition...




The two sharing a private moment before the day, my favorite from the day




and another beautiful PS: bride was there too, the newly married Mrs. Jessica Garcia…


Check out the Jessica G. on the end, rockstar Jessica, huge air!!


A great bridge at the Friendly Hills Country Club, only problem... right in the mid day sun... and it was HOT (people and temperature wise)






sneaking a peek at the ring...







sneaking a peek at the dancing introductions by Suzanne




I love this one of Andrea, Alissa's sister, during the toast, a close runner up to my favorite


The biggest group shot I've ever taken... thanks Suzanne!! And about 99% of the people on the dance floor stayed to dance. Awesome!


Since they are both musically inclined, figured this was appropriate...


Such good looking people!


Love it...


And love it!

Alissa & Eric's Slideshow...

Hello all!

Courtesy of the awesome program Showit Web Pro (by the amazing David Jay), here is the slideshow from the Alissa & Eric's engagement session. The song is by Marc Brousarrd and you can download the song on iTunes, it's a great song and I'm going to be downloading the full album this weekend. Thanks to Alissa & Eric for letting me know about him!

I had a blast shooting their pictures, and I can't tell you enough what wonderful people they are! I'm so excited for August when their wedding rolls around!! Enjoy the slideshow all, and God bless!

Alissa & Eric: Engagement shoot

So I had the honor today of shooting Alissa & Eric's engagment pictures. They're getting married in August and Eric was out this way for a philosophy conference. They are HILARIOUS!! They have a certain energy that you can just feel, and you can see how much they are in love with each other! It really was a great honor to be there to capture them together, fingers and noses, jokes, stories, itchy collars... Alissa's sister & brother-in-law came too (Andrea & Brian), since the park was just down the street from them. Alissa & Andrea have such a strong sister relationship, and they are so cute together. And they're both talented to boot!!




We hit pretty much every inch of Clark Park, which was a great park!! And after frolicking around and playing on jungle gyms that were sweeter than the one's we ever had, we headed to downtown Fullerton. So many fun places to shoot down there, especially at night!



Thank you to Alissa, Eric, Andrea, Brian & Imogen for letting me tag along with you and capture the moments. I had a wonderful time and I can't wait for the wedding in August!!



Aloha & God bless!

So those who visit my website, know I have a blog already, but this is the new and hopefully improved blog. I'm still working out a few kinks, but things will be up and running here shortly. And hopefully, I'll be able to post more often than I have been.

Just to catch everyone up real quick, I am shooting the engagement session for Alissa and Eric this weekend which I'm UBER excited about! Alissa is hilarious and a great singer (she and her sister were co-leaders at our VBS in 2005 and they did a wonderful job. Her and Eric met through their band, she was the lead singer, he was the lead guitarist. So between riffs and hi notes, love started to blossom... I'll post some of the pictures from their shoot this weekend, did I mention I'm excited about doing the shoot?

I also met with Heather & Jacob on Friday and we discussed their wedding in July, which I have the distinct pleasure of doing. They are a great couple and have such a strong foundation. Jess and I had the pleasure of meeting with them to discuss pictures and just get to know them a little bit more and it was a blast! We're going to be planning their engagement shoot here shortly, which is going to be so much fun! And, Heather's mom, Teresa, was nice enough to come out and say hello too!

That's the update as of now, I will have more here shortly, but my beautiful wife has turned in and I should do the same. It's an early day tomorrow, so no snoozing for me... so sad!

Oh, and one sad note... the Ducks lost tonight in overtime. It was our first game in a while and wouldn't you know it, they welcome us back with a big ol L. I can't wait to put up pictures from this weekend a few others I've been jonesin' to get up. If you have any questios or comments, feel free to send 'em on over or leave the comments here! Until then, aloha & God bless!