Aug 9

So ladies, I’ve held my tongue for over a month now about some exciting news I have been dying to share with you.  Thanks to the lovely Laura over at Happy Hour with a Housewife, I was able to do some internet browsing through some wedding classifieds and find a wedding photographer who did a post-wedding photo shoot with me, Mr Fix It and my daughter, Little Miss yesterday!  Typically this is called a day after shoot or a trash the dress shoot, but since it was done 4 months after our wedding and I didn’t officially trash the dress, I’m just calling it a post wedding shoot.

You may recall that I was really wanting to do this since I had mentioned in previous posts about how disappointed we were with our photographer.  I also shared about how our photographer pretty much blew us off when I tried to contact him to request some compensation for the lack of photos that we had asked for and didn’t receive.  Mr Fix It had said he would be willing to go back to our venue and do another photo shoot but *only* if we had another photographer do it and only if our photog would reimburse us to be able to pay another photog.  Well, since he didn’t agree, I wrote off our chances of a post wedding shoot.

But then Laura (who had a lot of the same disappointments about her own photos as I did) suggested I browse the net to find photographers who sometimes offer free engagement sessions.  I e-mailed about 3 different photogs I found and was delighted when I made contact with Rachel Garcia of Brilliant Imagery.

Rachel is a wedding photog from Vegas who had scheduled a road trip along the So Cal coast at the end of July.  She typically works with a lot of California brides and wanted to see if she could branch out into destination weddings here in So Cal.  So she went up and down the coast offering free e-pic sessions and photo shoots to familiarize herself with the cities, venues and get some photos for her portfolio and website.  When I shared our story with Rachel about how I don’t even have one photo of me and Mr Fix It with my daughter from our wedding day, she felt horrible and apologized on behalf of ‘all wedding photographers out there.’  Then she told me that she checked out our venue’s web site and would love to shoot there for us.

So yesterday, me and my daughter donned our wedding attire again and Mr Fix It put on a nice black suit (no tux this time) and we headed back to Rancho Las Lomas to spend a few hours in the late afternoon browsing the grounds of our wedding venue and snapping some fun, romantic and missed shots post wedding.

Here’s the details of the day:

**  Venue:  I e-mailed the venue and they agreed to let us come back on an off day (we picked a Tuesday) completely free of charge and we had total access to the entire venue again…and this time, the tigers were out!  I cannot wait to show you these pics! **  Hair/Makeup:  My amazing stylist

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