Happy Valentine's Day - Northern California Wedding & Portrait Photographer

With Wedding & Engagement Photography being my passion, I could not let Valentine's day go by without a shout out to all you love birds out there! Of course, it also allowed me to do a little sneak peek from this past weekend! Saturday I headed out to Pescadero, CA with a super fabulous couple to do their engagement photos! Despite the crazy weather at first, we had a fantastic time and here is one of my favorites we got on the beach! A full blog post of these two to come once I'm home from WPPI!
Now, since I have been watching quite a few movies lately, thanks to my Netflix account, I will leave you with a little list of "my first five valentines-ey/romantic/downright hilarious movies to watch this valentine's day, whether you are married, engaged, dating, or riding solo (much like myself!)
In no particular order:
1. Valentine's Day
2. The Notebook
3. Bridesmaids
4. Crazy, Stupid, Love
5. 27 Dresses
and a bonus if you would like a movie night out:
6. The Vow
I loved each and every one of those movies, and would watch them again and again! (Much like I do when 27 dresses shows up on the dish!) Got any exciting plans for tonight? Feel free to share in the comment box! Have a fantastic Valentine's Day, and I'll have more things to share with you soon!

Valentine's Day Contest 2011 - WINNER

well, valentine's day has come and gone, and i hope everyone had a wonderful one! i spent mine teaching four little cuties at their weekly dance lesson (i'm gonna miss them next week when i'm at WPPI!) and was even lucky enough to get a stem of carnations and a hershey's kiss as a treat :) Well, of course i can be all talk about MY valentine's day, but we have a contest that has to be won. It was a small turn out, but i would say that is pretty swell for the first one! without further adieu our winner (randomized so wonderfully by random.org) is:
congratulations to monica & james! and thank you so much to both of the other entries. a little something special will be showing up in your email inboxes as well! and on this note, i can't WAIT to bring you all the excitement for the HUGE march of dimes raffle contest that is going to be put together. it will be worth the anticipation :)

Valentine's Day Contest 2011

Well, with the holiday season just past us and the new year just beginning, i figured it would be time to hit the ground running! What better to kick the year off with than a free engagement session? Over the holidays, i watched my facebook nearly explode with the amount of people changing their status from "in a relationship" to "engaged" and all the excitement began to swell. of course, being me, i HAD to get excited when one of the engaged was one of my girls that i've known since FOREVER (shout out to you, elyse!) and of course, my favorite amy who's feet you get to see weekly :) with all the new plans in store for all these lovely couples starting out on the journey to the rest of their lives, i figured i'd give them an opportunity to boost them along! so here are the details:who can enter: anyone that is engaged by february 14th, 2011
if you're planning to propose by then, send me an email! i'm an excellent secret keeper :)
how to enter: send me an email (photogbyem@gmail.com) with the following filled out
your name:
your fiance's name:
how you met your fiance:
date you proposed:
how you proposed:
when you plan to get hitched:
and because i love silly questions, here are two for you to fill in the blank:
(fiance's name) & i are like:
when i think of (fiance's name) i feel:
see? easy as pie! all you have to do is shoot me an email with those questions filled out, i'll make a list in order of the emails i receive, and come february 15th, we'll have a winner! even if you aren't pulled for the engagement session prize, anyone that enters will win a special prize in the end. can't wait to hear from everyone! and don't forget to become a fan at http://www.facebook.com/photogbyem