Brittany + Kevin | Hangar 21 Wedding | Fullerton, CA

I'm going to start from the beginning, I'll keep it as short as possible though! I met Brittany + Kevin in a small coffee shop in Uptown Whittier in 2017 to discuss their wedding with me and to see if I was a good fit for them on their big day. I think we hit it off right away! Conversation was so easy and we're all equivalently goofy. Match made! Fast forward to their sweet engagement session up at the Griffith Observatory in LA, we got to chat and get to know each other even better and ever since I was literally counting down the days to their wedding!

Brittany + Kevin share their love for travel with all of their friends + family through this gorgeous set up of maps, globes + planes so what would be more fitting for them then to get married inside a hangar?! B + K have something so incredibly special. You don't need to spend much time with them to know that they're truly meant for one another, but I was lucky enough to have that opportunity. Aside from being [actual] soulmates, they also had the most epic Cinco de Mayo wedding with cerveza, a taco bar, palletas, mariachis, giant board games and of course, a churro truck. Ummmm, really quickly before I get to the photo part, those churros..... I STILL DREAM ABOUT THEM. Okay, I'm done ranting now I promise.

I absolutely loved everything about this day // I hope you enjoy it, too!

Alberta, Canada

january-2018

I feel as if I'm always dragging my husband along on my wild travel ideas but to my surprise, he was actually excited about this one. let me note, even though he's not the trip planner in this relationship, he always has an amazing time and we both love traveling together. so much that we created the hashtag #nobabiesnoboundaries.

I have never seen snow fall in real life prior to these moments. yes, I cried. on our sweet 5 day adventure through Alberta, we visited both Calgary + Banff. we enjoyed a hockey game, flames vs kings (GKG! // we won in OT.), we drove 3 hours around the national park just to explore, almost had my drone taken away from me, partially hiked Johnston canyon (I was TOO cold), ate all da poutine, visited a brewery, took a gondola up to the top of a mountain, hiked some more, walked on a frozen lake, couldn't feel my toes for 5 days straight + had some of the best Indian food in my entire life.

see Alberta through my eyes;

enjoy!

and we're off! Air Canada was so great!! from the comfy seats to all the free movies + tv shows, they made our flight carefree.

if you know me at all, you'd know that this is so typical of me.

decending over the Canadian rockies

view from our room in Calgary, but just for the night before we head to see the Kings play the flames and leave for Banff at dawn

did I mention we had glass seats behind the Kings bench?

ohhhh yeaahhhh!!!

we got that W!

off to Banff!

view from our hotel room at the Rimrock Resort in Banff 

in search of food!

we found Bear Street Tavern! their specialty (besides pizza) was their pork belly mac n' cheese. it was 10/10 and I have tried recreating this dish at home many times since, it's not the same.

the pizza was also amazing and the way they eat it is with a chili honey drizzle. GAME CHANGER.

off to explore!

a very frozen Two Jack Lake

a boat house on the beautiful (and frozen) Lake Minnewanka

the self timer can often become your best friend on vacation

a view from standing on Lake Louise

standing ON Lake Louise

look up

Banff Ave Brewing Co. // est. 2010

head smashed IPA. pretty good, better than I expected!

some fuel before our hike! crispy chick'n sandwich and poutine fries

Johnston Canyon

when you realize you're hanging 7k feet above ground

we heard a lot of great things about Indian Curry House in downtown Banff, it did NOT dissapoint!

amazing veggie samosas

tikka masala

veggie biryani // SO. GOOD.

back in Calgary + ready for bed!

after this long + cold trip, hopping on a plane at 6:20am heading southbound to LAX is all I needed. I love traveling but there's nothing in the world like sleeping in your own bed when it's all said and done. I hope you enjoyed this one!

xx, Stephanie 

COURTNEY + PAUL // MEXICO PROPOSAL

honestly, I'm not sure where to start. my husband and I met Courtney + Paul in early 2017 and quickly became close. after shortly realizing how much we absolutely love each other, we decided to plan a trip to Cabo together - but ding ding! Paul takes the cake on this trip because he had a secret proposal planned for Courtney. what is more romantic than that? go ahead... I'll wait.

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a little bit about Courtney + Paul; they've been together for almost 10 years at this point, they just moved into their very own place together, and they reeealllyyy love their cats, Hamlet + Houdini. Houdini likes to smoke cigarettes, but that's beside the point. Courtney had NO idea this was going to happen, but we all did. I even had to take her out one night for dinner and shopping (like, 4 hours of shopping) so Paul can go to her parents house and ask for her hand in marriage.

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fast forward to august 2017, we fly into Mexico and get to our hotel rooms and I call Paul and ask, we doing this? he said "yes, we need to go now. I think I'm going to have a heart attack." HA! so the plan was to walk down to our private beach and have them snap a couple photos of my husband and I as a decoy and when it was their turn, Paul would pop the (way overdue) question. "your turn" I said while giving Paul THEE look. Paul pretty much immediately got down on one knee, I could barely snap a photo beforehand. I'm going to go ahead and guess that he was anxious?? Courtney was in complete shock, as you can tell from the photos below. she kept saying things like, "are you sure?" and "oh my god, I have to call so many people!". we continued the trip with the most expensive Japanese meal we'll probably ever eat, karaoke, sailing, snorkeling and jet skiing on the Pacific Ocean. it was pretty much the best vacation ever.

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enjoy these beautiful, priceless moments. I'm so grateful and honored I was able to be there for them on such a special day in their lives.

~fin~