Drake Hotel Weddings
Here’s a quick teaser of Czarina and Gordon’s gorgeous fairy tale wedding held at the stunning Drake Hotel. More to come later in the week! Let me know what you think so far!!
Hidden Valley Music Institute
To read the full feature on Style Me Pretty, click here.
Last year I made an announcement on the Broke Ass Bride that I’m giving away a FREE destination wedding. Myka wrote in and I was in LOVE with her story!! That’s before my eyes got blinded by the GORGEOUS engagement ring!!! We went back and forth a few times via email and before you know it, Myka and Georges booked me for their beautiful Carmel Valley wedding. Let’s fast forward to two weeks ago. I seriously fell IN LOVE with Myka and Georges’s friends and families. Everyone I met greeted me with, “You’re the photographer from Chicago!!!”. It was hysterical how they all knew I was from Chicago and how they all greeted me with the same greeting. I had such a blast shooting Myka and Georges wedding. Everything from going to a gallery opening my first night there (long story), to scouting farms for Myka and Georges’s portrait session, to shooting with Danny and Yomi! I’m so blessed that Danny and Yomi both agreed to fly and drive from different parts of California to come help me shoot this wedding. Thank you guys sooooo much!!! I couldn’t have done it without you guys. I seriously love you guys!!! Myka enjoyed her wedding planning so much, she decided to partner up with her best friend and started their own event planning business!! Check out their blog here! Immediately after I got back home, I started to work on Myka and Georges’s wedding pictures right away since the high from their wedding day is still lingering. I got their images done within days. After I showed both Myka and Georges a sneak peek of their wedding images, Myka wrote asking if we can submit their pictures to be published! I immediately replied yes! Well…that was last week. Earlier this week I got an email from Myka saying that Style Me Pretty decided to FEATURE us THIS WEEK on their blog. I was always under the impression that if you ever get featured anywhere, it typically takes up to six months or more for them to feature it because they have so many submissions. Anyway, I am HONORED!!!! Check out this featured article here. Once again, THANK YOU Myka and Georges for choosing me to document such an important day. I love you both and you both will always have a place in my heart!!!
Photography: Melissa Diep Photography
Second Shooter: Danny Mendoza and Assistant: Yomi Foreman
Venue: Hidden Valley Music Institute
Florals: Sitting in a Tree (Bride’s company)
Wedding Dress: Aidan Mattox from Nordstroms (bride added extra ruffles and strap)
Bride’s Ceremony Shoes: Steve Madden
Bride’s Reception Shoes: BCBG (bride added the black ribbon)
Flower Hairpiece: Forever 21
Groom’s Suit: Banana Republic
Tie, Shirt and Socks: Urban Outfitters
Invitation Design: Cambria Blakely Shaw and reply postcard photograph from bride’s great grandfather
Paper Goods: Sitting in a Tree
Food: Wholefoods / Cupcakes: Layers Bakery / Candy: A Candy Store
Day of Coordinator: Tori Hendrix of Sitting in a Tree (Bride’s business partner)
Painting of Bride: Kelli Murray
Carmel Valley Wedding Photographer
A gorgeous and romantic location for a wedding. I can’t wait to photograph another destination wedding here!!!
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Congrats Melissa! Gorgeous images! I adore her bouquet!!!!
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melissa…you are amazing! georges and i can’t thank you enough for coming out and photographing our day. we bragged about you for months before our wedding and our family was so excited to meet our photographer “from Chicago”. ha, ha! thanks again…you are wonderful!
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melissa…you are amazing! georges and i can’t thank you enough for coming out and photographing our day. we bragged about you for months before our wedding and our family was so excited to meet our photographer “from Chicago”. ha, ha! thanks again…you are wonderful!
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Chicago and Destination Wedding Photographer
So I got an email a little over a month ago from Photobiz telling me they were going to feature me as their Photographer of the Month. My knees seriously went weak. I was more shocked to hear about it since I never made a submission to be featured. I seriously LOVE Photobiz and their entire staff there. I can go on and on about my love for them and how much I have them to thank for my beautiful website. I seriously get so many compliments over this website of theirs. Just recently, I wanted to spice up my website by having a custom splash page designed. I held a contest on 99 Designs and the chosen splash page was designed by the talented Jared Knetzer. Both Jared (the designer), Mitch (he did the coding) and Photobiz collaborated together to put together this unique splash page. They were all so patient with me. I can’t thank them enough!!! So here’s my featured article!!!
Photobiz Featured Photographer of the Month-May
I can’t thank you enough Photobiz for designing such a gorgeous website for me!!!
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Congratulations on the feature! I’m a fellow Photobiz photog, and I daylight as an editor. I love your splash page, but I thought you would want to know that “Old-school browser” should be hyphenated because both words together describe the browesr. Compound modifier. Keep up the great work!
Fancy!!! Can’t wait to see more!