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Cabo San Lucas Wedding | Sheraton Hacienda Del Mar

Have you been to Cabo lately? Come on, you know you want to! It is as beautiful as ever. With places like the Sheraton Hacienda it is more relaxing and comfortable than ever – private beach on the Sea of Cortez, gardens, two golf courses, three pools, spa, etc. Geez, It sounds like I am writing an advert for the hotel, but actually I just really LOVE Cabo San Lucas. I have been fortunate enough to photograph quite a few Mexico weddings and have grown to really like this city and also neighboring San Jose del Cabo.

Mark and Jennifer hail from fantastic Los Angeles, CA and actually found me through previous clients who got married in Mexico. They were kind enough to invite me for the entire weekend which included a condo in neighboring San Jose, rehearsal dinner at the Baja Cantina, a day at the Sheraton Hacienda, and an incredible reception party at Pancho’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar in downtown Cabo (emphasis on the ‘Tequila Bar’).

As always, in Mexico there is never a shortage of unique details to photograph and the warm light and textures add alot of richness. . .

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Here is Jennifer putting on the final touches . . .
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Wedding gown = ABS by Allen Schwartz.
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I found Mark enjoying the day at his room (a few empty bottles of Pacifico not pictured) . . .
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For weddings at the Sheraton Hacienda there are two choices – beach or chapel:). Mark and Jennifer chose the beautiful on-site Mexican chapel for their ceremony and it helped make their destination wedding in Cabo feel more “Cabo-liscious.”
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AAAHHHH!! Pancho’s!! Lobster and tequila! What more can I say?!?!?
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This is what you get when you ask for the ‘dirtiest’ tequila in the house!! What?!?! Rattlesnakes in a 5 gallon jug, tequila served with a ladle! Warning: there are side effects. . .
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Thank you God for my job, oh and Mark and Jennifer for hiring me.;)

Sheraton Hacienda Del Mar
Corredor Turistico KM 10,
Lote D, Cabo Del Sol
Los Cabos, Baja California Sur
23410 Mexico

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Katie - May 5, 2011 - 4:52 pm

NO way! Totally went there for a spa day a few weeks ago when vacationing at the neighboring resort!! Gorgeous!

Jennifer Ochs - May 5, 2011 - 7:44 pm

Gorgeous photos as always! Not too sure about the snake tequila though… :)

Chin-Lu - May 5, 2011 - 9:22 pm

CABO is one of my fave places! Love this wedding!

Chris Diset - May 5, 2011 - 9:41 pm

Great job, as usual.

Engagement | Chris and Lizzy

I get caught up in so much work during the year that not everything gets posted right away on the Hoffyblog. I keep thinking about this engagement session with Chris and Lizzy that happened a “while” ago.;)They are really special people and I am glad to have some time to post these pictures now.

Chris and Lizzy are an inspiring couple – the first time they saw each other at church there were immediate sparks. They didn’t waste any time, 20 minutes later they were sitting at the Gypsy Den in Costa Mesa having coffee and coversation. They were soon engaged, married and then went to India for 3 months to serve in small villages that lack water, education and basic health care (Harvest India). Solid people. Way to go Chris and Lizzy.

For their engagement pics, we naturally went back to The L.A.B. in Costa Mesa, home of the Gypsy Den and all kinds of other lovely places. If you like color, texture, and smiles then you may want to have your photos taken here too!

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The sexiness is just oozing out of this photo, make it stop. . .
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Thanks for all the fun! Hope to see you again soon.

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Wedding Chicks feature | Lemon and Lace

Wow, take a look at the final results of the “Modern Lemon and Lace” shoot. This beautiful concept shoot was mostly designed by Alicia at Details Details Event Planning with help from Chin-Lu at ChinnyLuLu Designs. The ideas for this shoot started from a meeting at Rancho Las Lomas, to a white board with magazine tears, and ultimately evolved into this great passion for the color yellow and the texture of lace – so the title “Lemon and Lace” was born. The list of people involved was really an A-list of Orange County wedding vendors (see below for the full list of vendors involved). Special shout out to Fayaz from Bloombox Designs who went above and beyond with “frilly ranunculus, varieties of daffodils, sweet peas, tulips, hyacinths, garden roses and a hint of anemonies.” He was the perfect florist for this styled shoot.

It turned out to be a really fun day and ultimately became a big hit online. The images were finally featured on the popular Wedding Chicks blog.

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View the entire gallery of images here.

See the Wedding Chicks blog entry here.

Photography: Hoffmann
Event Design: Alicia Townsend, Details Details
Makeup: Anha Does Make Up
Hair: Michelle Moore
Stationery: Details A La Carte
Veil & Hair Accessories: Chinnylulu Designs
Cake & Desserts: Filigree Cakes
Floral Design: Fayaz, Bloombox Designs
Groom’s Attire: Friar Tux
Male Model: Alix Van Aernam
Brunette Model: Nicole Sienna
Blond Model: Stefanie Uncles

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Chin-Lu - April 15, 2011 - 6:32 pm

This shoot was such a blast! My favorite by far but I’m not biased or anything :)
Amazing work everyone! xoxo

Engagement | Julie and Kraig

I like to encourage my clients to choose their engagement session locations. For me it is a fun photographic challenge and keeps me on my toes. For my clients it is perhaps something meaningful, something unique, or maybe something they always wanted to do. So in the last couple years (and you can scroll through the engagement category to check) I have taken pictures of couples at places like UCLA, Irvine Regional Park, Santa Monica Pier, San Francisco, Laguna Beach, Balboa Island, Little Italy San Diego, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Huntington Beach, UCI, CSULB, downtown Pasadena, Griffith Observatory, etc., etc., etc. FUN! FUN! FUN!

Julie and Kraig came up with a NEW surprise idea for their engagement session – the desert! Thank you for this! What a great way to put me out of my comfort zone. The desert sun was hot and high when we got there (somewhere off the 15 & 138 frwys in the Silverlake area) and it looked, well . . . like a desert.;)

We ended up having a great time and got some wonderful pictures.

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See you soon when you tie the knot at Strawberry Farms Golf Club!

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Judy - April 19, 2011 - 2:37 am

What a great session Hoff!! i love the muted color-tones in the pictures!! Your work is great as always!!

Julie - April 19, 2011 - 7:39 am

Your pictures are beyond fantastic! I am so overwhelmed and excited. Thank you for making the long drive out to the desert and for spending hours upon hours in the heat with us! Can’t wait for the rest of the pictures and more importantly, the wedding!

Karla Green - April 19, 2011 - 8:00 am

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!!

erin - April 19, 2011 - 8:12 am

i love these!!! i really like the railroad pictures!

Danielle Montoya - April 19, 2011 - 8:20 am

Beautiful pictures! :)

Heather Myrick - April 19, 2011 - 8:26 am

Great pictures, Julie and Kraig! We look forward to the wedding. Xoxo.

Elzabeth - April 19, 2011 - 8:29 am

Oh my goodness!!! These are stunning! I can’t wait to see the rest Julie! The countdown has begun!!

Carly - April 19, 2011 - 8:32 am

Love this Hoff, really shows you flexing your creative muscles! The effects you used in post production totally compliment the desert setting.

Liane Gleaves - April 19, 2011 - 8:39 am

Julie I love them. Great twist on location and you both look great. Congratulations on the engagement. Hope all is going great.

Kristen Ide - April 19, 2011 - 8:49 am

Beautiful pics. Julie, you look beautiful! Very creative ideas!

Sharon Clarke - April 19, 2011 - 9:04 am

What a Gorgeous Couple! I just love them! <3

Carlene Griffith - April 19, 2011 - 9:14 am

Great pics of you both, especially liked the ones on the tracks.

Cindy - April 19, 2011 - 9:20 am

the countdown is officially on sis! you look beautiful! xo

VICKY - April 19, 2011 - 9:37 am

WOW So beautiful! Julie you look amazing & you both glow with happiness. I LOVE them!

shana - April 19, 2011 - 9:39 am

Wow these are fantastic photos!! So cute :)

Niki - April 19, 2011 - 9:44 am

WOW… These pictures are AMAZING!! You both look great SOOO happy for you two!

Elizabeth phan - April 19, 2011 - 10:27 am

I love the pix n it’s so cute!! I’m so happy for u sexy!!!

denise payne - April 19, 2011 - 11:07 am

Wow awesome setting and great pictures!!!!

Kelly Pill - April 19, 2011 - 11:12 am

Love your pictures!! Such awesome original shots, and you and Kraig look great!!

beth grant - April 19, 2011 - 12:08 pm

What a great location! You have some amazing shots here. Julie- you look so so so beautiful.

Krista Root - April 19, 2011 - 12:46 pm

Your pictures are so unique and beautiful !!! I’m sure it helps to have an amazing couple to work with!!

Cherish - April 19, 2011 - 1:24 pm

So beautiful!! I love the ones on the train tracks!!

Lauren - April 19, 2011 - 2:17 pm

These turned out beautiful! Can’t wait to see the wedding shots!

Diana Lonbeck - April 19, 2011 - 2:41 pm

Love the pictures Julie!!!

Kathy Kennicutt - April 19, 2011 - 5:35 pm

They look wonderful. I can’t wait to see the rest!!!

Christine McBurney - April 20, 2011 - 7:50 am

These pictures are awesome!!! So different and UNIQUE!!! :-)

Corie Kolodge - April 20, 2011 - 9:35 am

The Desert!!! What a GREAT idea! Now all you need is a jet ski in the background haha! Beautiful Pictures love them!

Los Angeles Photographer | Kristina and Tim Engagement

I get to meet alot of couples nowadays who meet over the internet. I give kudos to the internet for bringing lots of clients my way. I have booked weddings for couples who met on eHarmony, Match, Christian Singles, and Yahoo Personals. The wedding business is booming thanks to those great sites!

But not Tim and Kristina. hahahah. If you have been following my posts, you know that I like to say that “they met the old fashioned way.” In a bar of course! Even better than that, they were both rooting for the same team – UCLA! I mean, this union was blessed from the very beginning. Tim comes from a long line of UCLA history, and Kristina graduated from UCLA not too long ago.

It was only natural then that the engagement session started at UCLA (and that Kristina would be wearing blue and yellow)! Complete fun. I have been to UCLA before for portrait sessions, but this particular day I ended up learning quite a bit. First of all, there was a home basketball game going on. No parking. Then I learned about the attack squirrels that roam the canvas. True. That’s where our afternoon begins! . . .

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We had a lot more fun at UCLA but we had to leave to make it to Santa Monica Pier for sunset. After a stop at Westwood In-N-Out Burger we arrived at a very familiar landmark. . .
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The Santa Monica pier area turned out to be a new favorite for me. There was a lot going on there including games, street performers, anime characters, beach and sunset.
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Underneath the Santa Monica Pier . . .
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We ended up with a lot of great pictures for Tim and Kristina’s engagement session. They came ready to have fun, ready to try some silly ideas from Hoffmann and they had a positive attitude. Two of my favorite pics from the day are next . . . you can sense a real connection between these two and can’t miss Kristina’s genuine smile. . .
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Every once in a while I take a cool picture . . .
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My nephew Jordan came along and tested out some of his SLR video equpiment. The result was a great video montage that he put together for Tim and Kristina: Los Angeles Engagement Video. Check it out!

Kristina had her hair and make-up professionally done for the engagement session. Thanks to Amber Ayala in Los Angeles.

Kristina and Tim will be getting married at the Ruby Hill Golf Club in Pleasanton, CA.

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Chinny Love - March 21, 2011 - 9:36 pm

WOW! Awesome captured moments of the gorgeous couple and their love. Love the textures too!

Brian Croney - March 22, 2011 - 9:00 am

Hello there, just became aware of your blog through Google, and found that it is fantastic. Cheers!

Faye Raney - March 22, 2011 - 6:19 pm

I really enjoy your blog! It makes me want to start my own blog. Please keep it up.

Rory Gani - March 23, 2011 - 3:29 am

Great stuff, just nice!

Gina Melani - March 23, 2011 - 7:13 am

Great pics! I especially love the one with the ferris wheel in the background, such a fun shoot!

Marie Town - March 23, 2011 - 7:46 am

The setting and lighting in the pictures are just beautiful and the happy couple look amazing!

Kristine Velasco - March 23, 2011 - 9:13 am

Love these pics! They are so playful and creative.

Fran - March 23, 2011 - 9:21 am

Really like the photos – very well done!

Meghan L - March 23, 2011 - 9:22 am

Stinee, you look amazing! Tim, I love your capris! So happy for you both :)

Thomas - March 23, 2011 - 9:50 am

Kristina-
Pics look great; I especially like the one with the squirrel.
~Thomas

Sarah Pettit - March 23, 2011 - 10:18 am

Wow, your pictures are so beautiful! I can’t wait to see you guys in California. You are going to have so much fun being married!!

Ben Anderson - March 23, 2011 - 10:46 am

Wow X and Tim! Great pictures.

Melissa Cartmell - March 23, 2011 - 11:48 am

Beautiful photos, Hoffy! I love the beach ones! Kristina & Tim are so fun & photogenic…can’t wait for their wedding!

Megan - March 23, 2011 - 1:39 pm

These pics are aaah-mazing! I love you both!

Rebecca Cartmell - March 23, 2011 - 2:37 pm

LOVE! The beach ones are my favorite! 10 more days until I have my own set of pics by Hoffman!

Dave P - March 23, 2011 - 3:46 pm

Awesome photos, great choice on the location. Looking forward to celebrating your special day.

Reevo - March 23, 2011 - 4:08 pm

These are awesome! You guys rock

Megan - March 24, 2011 - 4:18 pm

You guys are gorgeous – love you both. xoxo.

Chrissy - March 24, 2011 - 9:48 pm

Love the photos – especially the ones hanging in the tree! Looks like you two had a blast – can’t wait til November!

meghan - March 25, 2011 - 9:21 am

These photos are amazing! You captured the love that these two have for one another perfectly!

David Knox - March 26, 2011 - 7:38 am

Great photos Hoff!

Fatimah Shisler - March 26, 2011 - 4:03 pm

this was great … thanks a lot! I’m gonna bookmark your site.

Ely Roberts - April 1, 2011 - 9:15 am

Yeah! This shoot looks fun! Love the sun under the pier! Booom!

andrea carlyle - April 13, 2011 - 2:34 am

Lovely photos, I love the shot under the pier with the orange lighting!

Mom Taggart - November 19, 2011 - 3:16 pm

Awesome job, Steve. Looks like you all had great fun! Love them all!