Laura and Mark have such a cute story I just have to share it with you quickly .Laura is actually one of Mark’s sister’s good friends…. which is how they met and now they’re getting married!! How cute is that? I guess I just really relate since my brother is about to marry one of my good friends and I am SO excited about it! Anyhow, they both grew up in Claremont so we decided to do their engagement session in their “home town”. I’d never been to Claremont and boy was I pleasantly surprised! It is a fabulous college town (home to the Claremont colleges) with lots of amazing shops and restaurants, as well as the Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, which is where Laura and Mark are having their wedding. We decided to start out at the gardens just to take a sneak peek around so that I’d know what to expect on the wedding day. The gardens are absolutely gorgeous! I think I may have gone a little overboard on the favorites this round, but we just had so much fun it was impossible to choose

So cute! It was quite bright (think glaring afternoon sun) when we were in the gardens but we took some shade under a tree and got some nice backlight. Lovely

I don’t know why but I was feeling the square crop on this one.

After the botanic gardens we headed over to the Claremont colleges to scout out a couple of locations…. I do love white walls!

When we found this door we just had to stop for a couple quick shots!

After playing around at the colleges we headed to downtown, which was great because we could just wander around and find so many cute spots to shoot at. Believe it or not I’m not going to show you most of the locations we stopped at because this post would go on forever I’ll just tease you with a few choice locations.

I’m not sure why but this is one of my absolute favorites! Aren’t they just SO cute?!

And one more for the road just because it has a funny story… to get this shot I was desperately seeking something to stand on but there were no benches to be found so instead I climbed on Ben’s shoulders to get a higher vantage point (thanks Ben ) Sometimes you just need to get the right angle!

Laura and Mark thank you so much for convincing me to make the trek out to Claremont, I think it was definitely worth it (even with the marathon weekend traffic!). You two are so great together and you make my job a breeze! I can’t wait for your wedding this summer!

‘Tis the season for engagement photos and I had another on session on Sunday! I’m still editing photos from a couple of other sessions so I won’t get the “full” post for this one up for a few more days but I know how much my couples LOVE seeing their photos on the blog so I thought I’d give Laura and Mark a sneak peek of their session!

This is one of my absolute favorites!

You’ll just have to wait to see the rest