Welcome to our new blog...and as you can probably tell, the launch of our new company name...John Lauren Photography, formally known as Beauty for Ashes Photography!! We're soooo excited to have finally launched the first part of our "New Beginnings" project (this blog) which we first announced back in January of this year. The second part of the project is of course our new website which we're hoping to launch within the next few weeks!! BTW - if you guys have any suggestions on how we can better our blog (i.e. topics to talk about, cool blog features that we can add, etc.) shoot us an email (john@johnlauren.com) or leave us a comment. Without further ado, we dedicate our first post to Cheryll & Earl and their beautiful summer day in November...

Last year our friends from Red5Studios referred us to one of their clients that needed a photographer for their wedding. From the start of our first meeting, you can see how sweet they were to each other and even the shyness of the bride to be. The funny thing was that after going through A TON of shots! =), the same innocence and sweetness that we saw in her showed in almost all our shots.

Needless to say we left our meeting pretty excited to have Cheryll + Earl be one of John Lauren Photographys' first weddings of the year.

What started as a gloomy Saturday morning turned into clouds parting and the sun blasting it's rays through, warming us up as the day went on. Can you believe this weather in NOVEMBER??!!! You might ask, "what's that big blue "shark fin" looking thing behind them" Answer: WE HAVE NO IDEA!! haha...but we were definitely glad to have found it.

We got there super duper early to make sure we captured everything we could. Here's one of our favorites of the Bride-to-be getting ready with her dress waiting to be slipped on for the special day.

 

One of the benefits of shooting in front of a window on a gorgeous sunny day is getting shots like the one below. We love this shot because even though you don't quite make out the details of the expressions on their faces, you still feel a sense of gentleness just by the way they're holding hands and the way they're leaning their heads on each other.

 

 

One of the reasons why we knew this wedding was going to be great was because when we asked, where'd they'd like to do their shoot, the first thing they said was "whatever we do, please no "beachy" pictures" (haha is that even a word??!!)...perfect!! =) Not that we don't like beach pictures, because we totally do, but we felt the same way with our wedding. If you hadn't had a chance to see our own wedding slideshow, feel free to check it out.

Being that we were in the Long Beach area, the beach could have been very tempting but after doing a little scouting, we found an area that we thought would work just fine...

 

 

That last picture is one of my favorite groomsmen pics...gotta love the DO NOT ENTER WRONG WAY sign!! haha

Last but not least, what would be a bunch of teaser pictures without a slideshow?!!

So to Cheryll & Earl...thank you for sharing your special day with us and we hope you love your wedding images as much as we do! =)

**************Click here for Cheryll & Earls' Wedding Slideshow**************