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    I'm Ashleigh, and I'm a Los Angeles based wedding photographer. My world revolves around geeking out over yummy food, having fun with my husband, shopping like it's going out of style, cuddling my two kitties, and taking pictures!

    I am a believer in fairy tales and I still get teary-eyed at every wedding I shoot. I love to capture the emotions of the day and tell your unique love story. But before we whip out the tissues and water- proof mascara, lets chat over coffee (on me!) or if you live afar Skype and iChat work too! ;)

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Santa Barbara Courthouse Engagement Photography | Susie + Eric

Friday, January 27, 2012 Posted in ENGAGEMENT

I absolutely LOVE engagement season! Such a fun time of year spent meeting potential clients, and getting to know my newly booked 2012 clients even better through engagement photo shoots! So exciting!

I also have been having a ton of fun shooting in Santa Barbara, my new home! Even though Susie + Eric are getting married in LA, they were very excited about the opportunity to do their engagement pictures in Downtown Santa Barbara. Especially because Eric is an alumni of UCSB! We started off the session at the Santa Barbara Courthouse! I had heard that it was such a beautiful location… but I really was impressed at how awesome is! The architecture is fantastic and there are so many nooks and crannies with ridiculously pretty light! LOVED it!

Of course, the best part of the session was just working with Susie + Eric! These two both have such a great sense of style, and they were so excited to be all gussied up and play super-model! Total dream clients! But beyond being ridiculously stylish and good looking, these two are just so sweet and fun to be around! They were always looking out for each other, and would just get lost in each others eyes! Sighhh. So adorable to witness! You can just tell that these two are super in love! And not only are they so sweet with each other, but they also bought me a hot chocolate to warm me up from a very cold, windy session! Can’t ask for better clients than that!;)

So without further ado… love at the Santa Barbara Courthouse (100 Anacapa Street  Santa Barbara, CA 93101) …

Seriously! Are they not just ridiculously adorable together?!

They know how to ‘smise. That’s “smile with your eyes,” for anyone out there who doesn’t speak Tyra Banks!

Hotties for sure!!

Work it outttttttt!;)

Really, you two? Y’all should be in a magazine!

LOVE!

Love this sweet moment!

…and I LOVE this fierce moment! Rawr!

The light in the Mural Room of the Courthouse was oh-so dramatic!

We then headed down State Street to one of Susie + Eric’s favorite places… STARBUCKS!!!

Eric is a true gentleman!

Oh yeah… then they got some soft serve ice cream! And then we took this amazing-ness!

To see more photos from Susie + Eric’s Downtown Santa Barbara Engagement please watch the SLIDE SHOW!

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Coronado Butterly Preserve, Santa Barbara Engagement Photography | Samantha + Brooks

Thursday, January 12, 2012 Posted in ENGAGEMENT

I am so lucky to have just moved to beautiful Santa Barbara! But I am even luckier to have already found some wonderful clients in my new area! Brooks + Samantha are completely awesome! Brooks went to the same high school as my husband (also where my husband now teaches) and his dad actually  was our amazing realtor when we moved! So I was super duper thrilled when Brooks + Sam said they wanted me to photograph their wedding!

I had so much fun hanging out with Brooks + Sam, hiking around the incredible Coronado Butterfly Preserve, talking about yoga and our cats, and taking some fabulous images! It was the perfect day!

Check out some of the beautiful images below!

I mean, really, you two. Could you be any more gorgeous??

Look at all the pretty nature surrounding these two lovebirds!

Sammie smiles with her eyes! LOVE it!

It’s RIDICULOUS how good you two look together! <3

Samantha you are STUNNING!

This one is very cinematic.

Adore!!!

Love! Brooks, you look so handsome!

Fun!!! I love these last two shots of them so much! Just running through the fields!:)

The motion blur in this last one gets me every time! RAD!

I la-la-la-love it and can’t wait for the wedding in May! I know it’s gonna be absolutely lovely in every way!

…and I can’t wait to shoot more at the Monarch Preserve! Such a stunning area! If you wanna check it out, even just for a hike, here’s the info:

Coronado Dr
Goleta, CA 93117

To see more photos from this lovely engagement session watch the SLIDE SHOW!

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Downtown Los Angeles Engagement Photography | George + Angie

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Posted in ENGAGEMENT

At the end of 2011, I got to shoot the lovely Angie + George’s sweet engagement session in Downtown LA! I had so much fun with them, wandering Union Station + Olvera street! We found so many little nooks and allies and lucked out with some great light! Angie is also a very talented fine art +edgy fashion photographer, so I was very flattered that these two trusted me with their engagement photos! I just love the results! Check it out…

…Being a fashion photographer, Angie taught George how to make the “fierce” face. Rawr.

I love shooting in this tunnel but always have to challenge myself with a new shot. I dig this one!

We found some excellent light as we wound our way through the stalls and carts on Olvera Street! Love the colors here, and Angie looks GORGE!

SUPER STARS!

This engagement was such a great way to end 2011! I am so glad I finally had a chance to blog it! <3

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2011 YEAR IN REVIEW | The Weddings

Friday, January 6, 2012 Posted in WEDDINGS

2011 was filled with SO many weddings! So many happy, pretty, lovey, tear-filled, giddy weddings! Between the weddings that I shot for my own business, the weddings I shot as an associate for Callaway Gable, and the weddings I second shot for some of my good friends, I was busy nearly every single weekend in 2011. Sometimes even with back-to-back weddings! Definitely my busiest year yet! But it was amazing!!!! I loved every second! And I want to be at least that busy in 2012! I’ve grown SO much, become an even better photographer than I knew I could be, and I know it’s because of how busy I kept myself shooting week in and week out.:)

I wish I could share photos from every single wedding I got to be a part of, but that’s not really possible right now. Hopefully soon I will be share some more top secret weddings from 2011, including the wedding I got to shoot in a Castle in New Hampshire!! But for now I will do my 2011 wedding recap with the images that are okay to currently go public! So enjoy this look back at the weddings I got to shoot this past year, even if it is semi-incomplete!;)

Hanna + Chris kicked off my year by eloping!!

Jami + Jose married in Santa Barbara on a misty March day!

Elaine + Angel tied the knot one fine April day in Pasadena!:)

Karla + Waldo’s stylish Downtown Los Angeles wedding knocked my socks off!

Andra + Nate got married in Pasadena… in July… in 100+ degrees! And they still managed to look FLAWLESS!:)

Kim + Mark’s wedding was just lovely!

I still get goosebumps when I think of Lauren + Drew’s AMAZING art deco Santa Monica wedding!

Skylar + AJ’s vibrant San Diego wedding was too beautiful for words!!! I still have to pinch myself that it was real! Such loveliness and such a perfect couple!

Becky + Bernadette tied the knot at the gorgeous Los Angeles River Center and Gardens!

Nikki + Dave’s fabulous Malibu wedding was just one of the weddings I got to shoot as an associate for Callaway Gable in 2011! So glad I can share this one with y’all!:)

Frances + Jared’s Sherman Library and Gardens wedding was picture perfect! Love these two!:)

Whitney + Nate’s Long Beach Museum of Art Wedding was just down right fabulous!

And there was nothing cuter than Carolyn + Prescott’s rustic, Southern inspired, autumn wedding held at Strawberry Farms!!

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2011 YEAR IN REVIEW | The Engagements

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Posted in ENGAGEMENT

At the beginning of a New Year, I always love to a reflect on the year that just ended. I love  to see how how far I’ve come, and to remember all the wonderful moments I got to experience that past year! When I look back on all the weddings and love shoots I’ve done I get the warm fuzzies. Because again I’m blown away by how many AWESOME couples I worked with. Because I see how every shoot I become I better photographer. Because there my life is filled with beauty inside and out. These year-in-review posts are truly some of my favorite. And I look forward to creating them each January!

I was very lucky to have SUCH fabulously creative and stylish couples in 2012. Many of my couples wanted to do unique engagements and styled them to perfection! I loved it! I can only hope 2012 is filled with such gorgeous engagements, though I have no doubt it will be!:)So without further ado, a look back at 2011′s engagement shoots…

Technically Brooklyn + Mark’s shoot was an anniversary…but who wants to be technical?! They started my 2011 off in style on a drizzly February day!

I got to photograph Diana + JR in Nevada, thanks to Candice!

Andra + Nate celebrated Easter with a fun Pasadena engagement session!

Kim + Mark brought the fabulous at Griffith Observatory!

Carolyn + Prescott’s Valencia engagement session was styled to be oh so very pretty!

Virginia + Alex turned their love for each other and old western movies into one gorgeous engagement!!!

Adriana and Phil brought sexy back in Downtown Los Angeles:

Frances + Jared’s Long Beach engagement was full of stolen moments to make your heart flutter!

Skylar + AJ’s engagement at The Lab was so stylish I’m sure Anna Wintour would die of jealousy over them!!

Becky + Bernadette’s engagement at Griffith Observatory was filled with love!

Jen + Eric got real sexy at El Matador Beach…if the engagement is this hot I can’t wait for their summer 2012 wedding!:)

Rachel and Sean closed out my 2011 engagement season, with a sweet as s’mores camping themed engagement in the canyons of Malibu!

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