Congrats to Peter+Ginger on their recent wedding! Here is a little sneak-peek from their fabulous day. A little romantic shot that we did after the ceremony in the dark by a lamp post at The Clubhouse at Anaheim Hills Golf Course. Peter and Ginger’s full blog of all of their fabulous moments will be up soon, so stay tuned… J+D
February 13, 2010
The Viceroy Hotel
Palm Springs, CA
Congratulations to our fabulous couple, Jeff + Kacy, who recently shared their vows at The Viceroy Hotel in Palm Springs, CA. We want to thank them for having us be a part of their day, it was such a pleasure to be around them at this wonderful venue.
I have to say I love the story of meeting in the workplace since it is one near and dear to my heart. Jeff and I met and started having lunch almost 11 years ago when we worked at a studio together doing Home Depot’s catalog photography. Well, this is where Jeff and Kacy met too. I mean where do you spend most of your time? It is bound to happen that near the water cooler, in an elevator, at lunch, or a mere conversation at the passing of your desk may turn into a romance. So it did for the two that romance struck and Jeff asked Kacy to marry him. When I heard of his proposal I thought it was the sweetest thing. Jeff put the ring in a Monopoly game and asked Kacy to play. Thankfully she said yes to both playing the game that night as well as marrying Jeff because, it brought all of us here to this fabulous day at The Viceroy.
Kacy was such a classy bride and her gown was absolutely stunning, a design by Ines di Santo. This bride rocked the Hollywood Glam style, love it girl!
This was one of our favorite photos of Kacy, such a fabulous moment and composition with the bride, maid of honor and bride’s grandma!
We just love all of the details!
Here is our handsome Groom, Jeff, almost ready to go!
Jeff and Kacy decided on doing a “first look” and saw each other before the ceremony and shot some photos. We love doing this because the couple has a chance to see each other for the first time in a beautiful setting. Just for the two to have a moment! It brings tears to everyone’s eyes.
Here comes the bride!
Jeff looked so happy to see his bride!
The two meet!
We all loved the Orange Door in this photo!
Our Groom
This is a shot of our bride as I mentioned to look over at her groom Jeff, she just lit up!
It’s ceremony time with the mountain in the background!
So happy to be married, love love love their expressions!
Cake by: Pastry Swan Bakery in Cathedral City
First Dance
I happen to look over at this mirror at one point and saw the reflection of the two dancing. I just loved that it looked like they were dancing in the room like no one was watching!
Kacy kicked off her shoes while dancing during the reception, so the creative in me took over and here are the rings!
It was a beautiful wedding with a stunning couple at a fabulous venue, who could ask for anything more. We wish Jeff and Kacy all of the best in their married life together and thank you again for having Sipper Photography be a part of one of the best day of your lives. We love what we do, cheers to you both! J+D
Hair by: Cindy Diep from Alexander Salon in Brea, CA
Make-Up by: Gary at Chanel Sak’s Fifth Avenue in Palm Desert gary_griffin@s5a.com
Music by: DJ James Gonzales at Music Media Entertainment
We are offering a portrait special for anyone who needs an updated Business or Personal Portrait. This would be a great time to update your portrait for your website, blogs, marketing materials or social media profile photos. Feel free to contact us with any questions or to schedule your session! Hope to see you soon! J+D
Flyer Design by: Tanya Salcido at Design Action Studios
Sipper Photography has been nominated for the Orange County Business Journal’s 2010 Excellence in Entrepreneurs Awards. This is the 9th annual award celebration to recognize OC Entrepreneurs. We are thrilled to be a part of this and honored to share the company of many other fabulous Orange County business owners. An awards luncheon will take place on March 17th to announce the EIE winners, so wish us luck! Our sincere thanks to everyone who continues to support us at Sipper Photography. Your love and support is greatly appreciated! Thanks, J+D
Nominees are announced in the February 22, 2010 edition of the Orange County Business Journal
Here is our Nominee Profile
Congratulations Page with a list of all of the 2010 Nominees. You can see our names just above.
In our nominee profile there is mention of another recent credit we received and wanted to share with you! We recently had one of our photos credited on Forbes.com feature entitled Web Celeb 25! A big congratulations to Danny Sullivan for making the list and our sincere thanks for using our portrait.
Here is the shot of Danny seen at Forbes.com
Life is good and we are so happy to be recognized for our work and talent. It is amazing that all of this comes from something we love, our passion of photography.
Well, the Valentine’s season proved to be busy for us after shooting a couple of weddings this last week. We shared two fabulous wedding days, with two great couples. In the midst of all this work and love we wanted stop and congratulate all of you who got engaged too! Valentine’s is such a fun and romantic time to say “YES” and say “I do” and since we were already a part of a few ” I do’s” we thought we would come up with a little fun for our newly engaged with our Valentine’s Engagement Contest.
We want to thank you for taking the time to participate and telling us your stories. Congratulations to all of you on your engagements! We have picked our winner, we would like to send a Big Congrats out to Dana-Beth + Richard who have won our Free Engagement Session by Sipper Photography.
The couples story is below, as I read their story it brought tears to my eyes. I felt suspense, surprise, love and joy for them! Most of you know that I am a total sap, a sucker for this love thing! We loved the story, a helicopter, fireworks… how fun and romantic! Kudos goes out to Richard for planning such a fabulous night and though you had your time constraints, you kept your cool! Oh, and Dana-Beth, you asking for the flash light was classic! A total girl thing! We loved your story, thank you for sharing it with us!
Our Valentine’s Helicopter Engagement Story!
Too much time…
Our evening began like everyone else, with dinner! We went to our favorite restaurant Roman Cucina, in Sunset Beach. We brought a bottle of wine with us to have at the bar anticipating there would be a long wait, like the previous year on Valentine’s Day, there had been an hour and a half wait. However, this year was a little different… We walked right in and were able to sit down. I was happy because I was hungry, my boyfriend on other hand suddenly had to figure out how to stall for two hours because he had the evening on a timed schedule that I didn’t know about! He asked the waiter to bring out our appetizer and then put our dinner order in to try and drag out dinner, I didn’t think anything of it. We finished our wine with dinner and he said, “now lets go get dessert”!
Not enough time…
We then went to another favorite restaurant of ours, Sparks, in Huntington Beach, for dessert. We never have a wait and always walk right in, even one year when we went there for Valentine’s Day. This year was just a little different… There was a huge wait! My boyfriend was once again getting nervous, but now because there may not be enough time! We went to the bar area and after just a few minutes were able to squeeze into two chairs, get our delicious dessert and glass of port wine. We stayed just long enough to enjoy our dessert and port. On our way home my boyfriend announced that he needed to stop by the house for a moment, but we still had one more place to go. I couldn’t imagine where we were going it was almost 8:30, time for bed soon! The big partiers we are we tend to be in bed by nine.
Perfect Timing…
We left our home in Huntington Beach and within 20 minutes arrived at LA Helicopters at the Long Beach Airport! We boarded our helicopter with pilot Eddie and I was so excited, I have been wanting to go in one for so long, my boyfriend even had brought a long a bottle of champagne for the ride. I still didn’t think anything of it, other than what a perfect romantic Valentine’s gift! We were flying over the Orange County area when we arrived in the Anaheim area and as the helicopter began to hover and the bottle of Champagne was opened the Disneyland fireworks started to go off! I immediately had the biggest smile on my face that they had perfectly planned out with my boyfriend the helicopter route so we could watch the fireworks, he knows they are my favorite thing to watch! While hovering over them for about a minute my boyfriend, said, “Dana-Beth… Dana-Beth…Honey….HONEY”, it took him a minute to get my attention I was in awe of the fireworks! I looked at him and he took out the ring and proposed! I said, “YES!” we kissed, followed by me asking the pilots, “do you guys have a flashlight?”, everyone laughed, I wanted to see the ring and it was very dark up there! After the grand finale of fireworks the pilot flew us to downtown Los Angeles where we flew around LA’s tallest buildings! We landed safely back and ended the night with a drink at the restaurant where we first met! The evening was a dream to come true start to finish! I could not have dreamt of a more perfect Valentine’s.
In Love,
Dana-Beth & Richard
Cheers to Richard + Dana-Beth! We can’t wait to shoot your engagement session and celebrate this fabulous time with you both!
Here is a little sneak-peek from our wedding in Palm Springs this weekend at The Viceroy Hotel. This was a shot right after the two said I-Do. I love that as they processed out they took a moment to just look at each other. We always tell our couples, your wedding is all about YOU!! So, stop and enjoy the moments! Jeff and Kacy’s full blog of all of their fabulous moments will be up soon, so stay tuned… J+D
We hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine’s weekend. We want to send a big congratulations out to our couple Jeff + Kacy on their marriage this weekend. They were a stunning couple and we want to thank them for sharing their wedding day with us. All the best to you both! Make sure you check back to see their wedding photos soon, we can’t wait!
Love, Love, Love! What a romantic time to get married or engaged on Valentines.
We want to know… Did you get engaged?
Sipper Photography is hosting a Valentine’s contest for “Best Engagement Story”! Tell us about your engagement story, how did he propose?
Was it romantic? Fun? Quarky? On the beach? On a Boat? In a Helicopter? At a restaurant? Where did you say “Yes”?
Jeff and I will be picking the best story and our winning couple will receive a Free Engagement Session by Sipper Photography! Celebrate your engagement with a one hour session at the location of your choice!
Send us your story today by emailing us at info@sipperphotography.com our contest ends this Sunday, February 21st. We will announce the winner at our blog on Monday, February 22nd!
We can’t wait to hear your engagement stories! Congratulations to all of you! J+D
Happy Friday everyone! We hope you all have a fun Valentine’s holiday planned. Jeff and I will be visiting Palm Springs this weekend for some work and then a little R&R! We are so excited to shoot Jeff and Kacy’s wedding tomorrow at The Viceroy Hotel, this is our first wedding of the year and it is going to be fabulous. Since we were staying over for the wedding, we decided to take an extra day to stay and celebrate Valentine’s Day and relax. I can’t believe with all of the bad weather we have been having across the country, Palm Springs will be a beautiful 75 degrees for the wedding and almost 80 degrees for the rest of the weekend. What to pack??? LOL Whatever you are doing this weekend, in the snow or the warmth, remember to celebrate your loved ones!
Here is a little Friday Fun I thought I would share. I recently had the opportunity to do a shoot for Argosy University and the Orange Chamber and met Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda, yes Mr. Dodger himself. What an honor to shoot this event and hear Tommy speak. That man loves baseball! He reminded me of my dad, always could talk about baseball and his team. In my dad’s case it was the Yankees, but the passion was just the same, he loved baseball and all of the history that went with the game.
I snapped several photos of Tommy speaking and even got a photo with him myself. My friend Tanya of Design Action Studios was also there and put together a little video montage of the event and his speech which you can view here. If you like baseball, especially the Dodger’s you want to watch this!
Here is Tommy when he arrived!
Here is Tommy exercising his freedom of speech!
Orange Chamber Ribbon Cutting for Argosy University
Me and Tommy, it was such an honor to meet him…you can see how excited I am!
Me, Tommy and my friend Tanya
We need your support today, we have been nominated for the MyFoxLA Best of OC Wedding Photographer 2010. Currently, we are in 2nd place and hope to move to the top! Last year was our first year participating and we made it to the Top 5. Currently we hold the title of “Top 5 Best of OC Wedding Photographer in 2009”. Please help us defend our title, by voting today!
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