LOVE + LIFE + JOY
We are so proud and humbled to find out the beautiful succulent bouquet from Darlene & RJ's wedding is featured on Best of 2016: Aisle Perfect Wedding Bouquets. The gorgeous bouquet is image 5 on the article. To see more of Darlene & RJ's stunning wedding click here.
I really don't know how we totally missed posting Darlene & RJ's wedding from our 2016 season. But I guess better late than never right?
This post was originally featured on Aisle Perfect titled "Traditional Meets Modern Los Angeles Wedding"
We've re-published the blog's text below:
Today’s beautiful real wedding has some of the most gorgeous details we’ve seen. Let’s just say if this post we’re Pinterest, you’d be pinning every single image 🙂 Darlene and RJ incorporated traditional Filipino elements like using a veil, cord, coins and a money dance into their wedding but really wanted their modern style to shine. Green is Darlene’s favorite color, so she wanted to used different shades of green throughout the wedding. “I loved the idea of having non traditional florals, like air plants and succulents,” said Darlene. “Meg from the Little Branch did an amazing job and even used hops in our arch and other arrangements!” For the escort cards, Darlene’s brother-in-law made a large wooden frame with wires. They asked their guests to take their escort card and replace it with a Polaroid picture of themselves. Such a great idea! Another detail we loved? The flower girls carried balloons down the aisle.
At the reception, the couple hired a singer to entertain the guests as they arrived. She also sang during the ceremony. Their favor table featured one of Christy of Orange Blossom Special Events’ beautiful signs and shelves that they assembled ourselves. “My bridesmaids helped to replant the succulents into mercury candle votives we found,” said Darlene. “Our cake toppers were also clay love birds made by our friend.” During the reception they used Eventstag to display a live feed of Instagram pictures their friends posted with using their hashtag. It seems this beautiful couple missed no detail in planning their special day, and it certainly looks like it was a day to remember 🙂 Take a look at some of their gorgeous wedding photos, beautifully captured by Steven Lam Photography:
The dream team:
Planner: Orange Blossom Special Events//Musician: Liz Fohl //DJ: RedShoe//Florals: The Little Branch //Venue: Skirball //Videographer: DP Weddings//Chiavari Chair Rentals//Hair and makeup: Kelly Zhang //Photobooth: Hashtag Photo Booth//Cake:Cakes by Rumy
We are honored to be listed as one of Los Angeles's top wedding photographers by Expertise.com.
Wow, we are so jazzed about this wonderful accomplishment and it could not have come at a better time than during Thanksgiving week. We are grateful to be a part of this amazing list of talented LA wedding photographers.
More importantly, we are thankful for all of our wonderful, kind, and awesome clients that we had the pleasure of photographing. We are honored that they all have entrusted us to document one of their biggest life moments.
This is what Expertise has to say about us…”Steven Lam is one of our favorite lifestyle and photojournalistic LA wedding photographers. He brings a unique combo of industry experience ranging from professional celebrity shoots to intimate wedding experiences, and has done it all from green eco weddings to destination weddings in Hawaii, Costa Rica, the Mexican Riviera, and up and down California. He’s also been the photographer for Jill Scott’s Grammy award-winning album.”
Click here to check out Expertise Top Wedding Photographers in Los Angeles.
We love Lindsey + Jac's beautiful wedding in Laguna Beach. They flew from the east coast and chose Laguna as their destination for their beautiful wedding. Shooting this couple was a pleasure, their love shines through. Moments like this is why we love being a wedding photographer. The light, the organic len's flare (no filters) and the warm smile toward each other in this magical moment pretty much says it all...Love and happiness.
We've made it on The Overwhelmed Bride's The Bride List. This list is a hand selected pre-approved top wedding vendors to help the overwhelmed bride during their wedding planning in search for their ideal and most trusted wedding vendors. We are honored to be a part of this talented bunch of wedding vendors. Excerpt from TOB "We have researched, background checked, and ensured each of these vendors is highly recommend by many of their past brides, so you can rest assured that you're in great hands with any of the brides list member..."
We are so honored to be the official wedding photographer of Tanya Stein & Violet Palmer's bling wedding yesterday on August 1st, 2014. The wedding was a star studded event filled with so much love for the lovely couple.
Violet Palmer, who in 1997 became the first female to referee an NBA game, has announced that she is gay and is marrying her longtime partner, reports the Associated Press.
Palmer married celebrity hair stylist Tanya Stine in Los Angeles. The couple has been together for 20 years.
Palmer told the AP that she came out to her fellow NBA referees in 2007, several of whom will attend her wedding.
"This is actually the big formal coming out," Palmer said. "We are saying to the world, to everyone, here's my wife of 20 years. This is the big coming out."
Palmer refereed the 2014 NBA All-Star game in February, becoming the first female in any of the four major U.S. sports to officiate an All-Star game.
She has also refereed for both the NCAA and WNBA.
Clearly this was a special wedding celebration not just for Tanya & Violet but also for the LGBT community and California's newly passed gay wedding law. We are proud to be a witness at such an historical event and movement.
Enjoy Tanya & Violet's wedding ring image. We hope this will help bring more wedding inspiration to your big day.
Cheers!
More info click here: Sports Illustrated
Priscilla + Jesus E-Session shoot in La Jolla.
Photos of Aston's doljanchi. Doljanchi aka Dol is a Korean tradition that celebrates the first birthday of a baby. Isn't Aston adorable? Congratulations Jediah + Stephen.
Hello, check out our newly re-designed website featuring Bree + Andrew's destination wedding in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Love our new logo design by Masha Kupets Navarra of Plastic Palmtree Inc
"4 years ago today, Derek and I got married in the backyard of a historic house in Oahu, just feet away from the ocean. We had 22 guests, an acoustic guitarist, and two photographers we liked so much we flew them from LA to be there. It was the most relaxed wedding I have ever been to, and without a doubt, the happiest day of my life. Happy Anniversary, my love :-) (Photo by the incomparable @stevenlamphotography)"
This is the reason why we love photographing weddings. It's not just a job. We love what we do because we know years from now, our wedding couples will have a blast looking back at their beautiful and timeless moments we've help captured on their wedding day.
Happy Anniversary to the sweetest couple Danielle + Derek. Mahalo.
P.S. Danielle is also an amazing embroider. Click here to see her what she did for her wedding album cover.
We wanted to share this lovely country chic wedding of Jediah & Stephen with yall as the 2013 wedding season is kicking off in high gear. We hope these sprinkles of images will help inspire your own special day during your planning. J+S wedding was featured on
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Jediah & Stephen Country Club Chic Wedding
The dream team for this event / Nam Lam of
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bridal lingerie campaign shot by Steven Lam. We had a blast working on this fabulous campaign on location at an amazing california regency style home tucked in the Hollywood Hills. Big shout outs to our fabulous team, could not have done this without you and a huge thank you to Becca and Stephen at Naked Princess for the fun gig and Jennifer Daigle for documenting the stuff behind the scene.
We are so honored to be featured on
blog page today. We met Patricia Sohn a few months back when she stopped by our studio to interview us and to see more of our work. We had a great time talking about photography and the wedding business. More importantly, we've became friends which is always lovely when that happens. Patricia dug deep during her interview about our studio's work and we are so happy that she is so generous to share her findings about our studio to the world. Read more on Steven Lam Photography featured on >>
Hi guys, we want to share a new blog by Dee over at
. Dee and I wanted to document our outings titled Field Trip. On our second installment, we visited The Gaylord Apartment, once a glamorous hotel in the golden era of hollywood, now a hidden gem in Los Angeles tucked away in Korea Town. Hope you have as much fun exploring The Gaylord as we have. Thanks for letting me tag along Dee :) If you like Dee's blog, please show her some love and like her page.
Click here to read more about The Gaylord
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We are so blessed and honored to be featured on DailyCandy.com's L.A.'s Snappiest Wedding Photographers and we humbly accept their nod. There is no greater compliment than being featured amongst our industry peers. We want to congratulate everyone that was featured along with us : Joe Buissink, Puman Bean Photo, Fifty Foot Films, Bonnie Tsang Photography, Feather Love Photography, Annie McElwain, Rebecca fishman, Love Me Sailor, Robert Evans, and Sweet Little Photographs.
Spring has just arrived and we wanted to share Jessica + Jamie's gorgeous Costa Rica wedding with everyone. We had the pleasure of spending a week with everyone in the wonderful and remote surf-friendly town of Playa Grande. The weather was amazing! This place is absolutely magical and mother nature blessed this wedding with the most perfect weather and lighting allowing us to capture J+J's memorable moments. Pura Vida!
Yeah, another gorgeous wedding from one of our lovely client Leah + Gene got featured on
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Leah + Gene's beautiful wedding was held at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Arts. The day was filled with beautiful light, love, laughter and endless smiles and happiness. Plus a tons of treats for all of their guests. Days like this makes all of our hard work well worth the effort and we are so please with all of the beautiful moments we have captured on camera. Enjoy the blog and the wedding images.
The dream team:
Wedding coordinator:
Kelley @ Picture Perfect Events
Wedding Dress: Lazaro at
Shoes:
Floral design:
Bridesmaids Dresses:
Custom invitation design:
Hair & Make-up:
Videographer:
Loyd Calomay Films aka Red 5 Studios
Catering:
Wedding Cake:
Custom made hot air balloon cake topper:
Venue:
