stacey and jeff’s world tour 2010 made a stop in santa monica and we were beyond stoked to get front row seats! well actually, we just started their engagement session at the santa monica pier. the world tour will start after they get married later this year. they’ve already seen some amazing places together, but their love of food and travel will eventually take them to every corner of the globe. you can’t help but to get excited just talking with stacey and jeff. they are an amazing couple with tons of cool stories to tell. they remind me of a young carl and ellie. (i love that movie.) we had a lot of fun adding a few more pages to their adventure book as we strolled around the santa monica pier and the lacma (los angeles county museum of art). alright, enough of the jibba jabba. let’s kick this session off.
these two are adorable! i just want to put em in my pocket.
i want to play fun win!
awe and then some. you decide who’s who.
how awesome is it to be a kid? their whole life is a yellow submarine ride. i love this beautiful little girl’s smile. kim caught her while i was taking a shot of stacey and jeff.
snakes. why did it have to be snakes?
i love this shot that kim took of stacey and jeff having a laugh after jeff with 3 rounds with the chuck liddell of balloons.
we apologize. the full fierceness of stacey and jeff could not be fit into this frame.
jfk and reagan agree, the berlin wall is definitely better served as a backdrop for stacey and jeff’s kissy shot than what it was originally constructed for.
april’s the animator. i just take photos. this is as close as i could get to a tex avery cartoon.
to the clubhouse we go… up up and away!
so at this point you’re probably asking “what’s with the balloons?”
they are more than just a fun spot of color in our photos. a balloon actually played a big role in jeff’s proposal to stacey. while they were on vacation in cappadocia turkey they went on a hot air balloon ride. jeff, being deathly afraid of heights, stayed as far away from the sides as he could while stacey tried to photograph as much of the ride as possible. during their flight, stacey felt a tap on her shoulder. she partially turned and saw jeff on one knee with a white ring box in his hand. in her excitement to turn all the way around to face jeff she knocked the ring box out of jeff’s hand and over the edge of the basket. as the box fell to the ground below stacey actually considered jumping out after it. she desperately searched the landscape for reference points but knew the ring would be impossible to find in this terrain. just as she was about to lose all hope she heard jeff call her name. she turned to see him on one knee again, this time with a black velvet ring box in his hand. as he began asking her to spend the rest of their lives together all she could do is say “yes!” she said it three times before he could finish his proposal.
just so everyone doesn’t grab the next flight to cappadocia and start combing the hillsides for that first ring box, it was empty. jeff is a well known practical joker, but stacey totally bought it.
when i say “i love lamp” i’m not just looking at things in the office and saying i love them. i love lamp.
balloon wars!
thanks for the adventure stacey and jeff! we can’t wait to continue it in august.
thank you so much for the delicious dinner, the man-catchin-beignets, and the awesome goodies too! it was incredibly sweet of you two to take kim, rain, and i out to dinner at the grand lux cafe after our shoot. it was so good! rain can’t stop talking about the beignets and she has been taking her goodies to school every day this week to show all her friends. sincerely, we can’t thank you enough. see you soon.
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Aww they are super fun. Love it, and all the props. Now I am off to the amusement park :).