I’m excited to share a few images from Shauna’s trash the dress session! I feel like I’ve known Shauna for ages. We started chatting last year when her and Dustin were in the beginning stages of planning out their wedding. They had an intimate wedding in New York, then came out to Vegas for their honeymoon and post-wedding shoot. It was awesome rocking it out together!
To top things off, Dustin’s a firefighter and brought his fire gear all the way from Florida for our shoot! Here’s a few of the images from our day together:
These first two were photographed against the colorful backdrop of the Neon Boneyard! 
Shauna brought along Dustin’s extra name badge to use as an adorable prop in celebration of her new last name:
To see more from this shoot, check out the feature on Destination Inspirations wedding blog!
Johnnie is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. For the past two years he has traveled across the globe to fly in air shows for millions of spectators. And the love of his life, Angela, has been right there with him. So it’s safe to say: Flying has played a huge role in their lives together.
After some brainstorming, we came up with the idea of doing an Amelia Earhart-esque style vintage aviation shoot in the middle of the Nevada desert.
The plane in the first image is a P-51 Mustang – one of Johnnie’s favorite vintage airplanes and one that he had the opportunity to fly alongside during many of his air shows.
I grew to love Johnnie and Angela when photographing their wedding way back in December of 2008 so I was stoked when Johnnie wrote to tell me they were returning to Vegas and he wanted to suprise Angela with a trash the dress to celebrate their 2-year wedding anniversary. It was awesome being able to both catch up on everything and capture them again at this new stage in their lives. They are bidding adieu to air shows and are starting their next adventure together in South Korea (where Johnnie’s now stationed for work). Angela even keeps an awesome photo-blog where they document all their travel and adventures.
Couldn’t resist doing my happier take on the iconic cinematography of Robert Burks in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “North by Northwest” (1959).
Some of my images from Leah’s trash the dress were featured on Trash the Dress.com. CLICK HERE to check out the post!
Let me introduce you to Leah and Chase, a spunky cool California couple! They first met in France through Pepperdine University‘s international program, and have now been happily married for almost 2 years. They have wonderful memories from their wedding day (and some really great stories) but regretfully, no professional images. So as Leah put it, “Now is the time for vengeance!!” And we met up in Santa Monica Sunday afternoon with one goal in mind: to trash her dress (and have a blast doing so).
Me: Are you guys up to ride the roller coaster in the wedding dress?
Leah and Chase: Heck yeah!
Me: How about climbing across sharp rocks in Malibu?
Leah and Chase: We’re down!
Me: How about getting blasted by a giant wave in the ice-cold ocean water?
Leah and Chase: Sounds awesome!
Yes, I’d say we were a perfect match. 
But enough talk, here’s some images…
They said “Do we pose?” I said, “Nah, just have fun and be yourselves” and this is what I got…
And of course, we couldn’t pass a chance to ride the roller-coaster! So much fun!
Much more coming! Stay tuned for part 2 of our little adventure where Leah and Chase REALLY trash the dress in Malibu!
A+B: Thanks for an amazing day, for being up-for-anything and rockin’ it out in the Vegas heat with me! I had so much fun with you guys. 
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