Marvin and Madel’s wedding was held in a city called Temecula in southern California. In fact the exact place where we had the preparation and reception party was called Pechanga Resort and Casino – the biggest casino in that part of the state. There is something in the word Pechangga that I find funny yet titilating… and Noel, Ollie and yes, even Alnie (my ever trusting back-up dancers and shooters for this wedding) agree with me that we actually just put Pechanga in our own little dictionary of “stupid words with meanings we came up with”. hahaha.

If you find Marvin and Madel familiar, I’m sure this is because of the photos from their engagement session we had in San Diego early this year. =)

Enjoy the photos from this beautiful wedding. Pechanggahan na. =)

Since I promised to post a blog everyday for seven days and im now midway through it but realized I have my last US series to feature, I thought I’d extent that challenge to 10 days to feature all my really adorable and fabulous shoots (from San Diego to LA to Chicago) earlier this year.

Let me start with my first shoot of that series (although I have posted the wedding from Palos Verdes already) with Marvin and Madel in San Diego. A have quite a few friends from this county and I’ve always loved being there. That’s why when Marvin told me it was a meaningful place for him and Madel and they wanted to shoot there, I thought it would be awesome =)

During the entire California leg of my shoot, my now good buddy and soon-to-be-groom, and photography protege (his the guy behind Our Digital Studio) Noel Dasmarinas was with me throughout and made every shoot more superb than they already were. =)

Marvin and Madel are set to marry this August in Los Angeles and I can’t wait to go back and see them and their cool family again =)

Since super metrophoto partner Noel is with me, guess what I had a lot of? Yep, photos of me shooting! hahaha =)






weee! =) happy with another addition to my growing collection =)