LA!

for our LA trip, we had 3 full days which comprises of 1 day for disneyland, 1 day for shopping @ factory outlet and another for the official engagement shoot!!! yes! we are taking our engagement shoot in LA!

the shoot was sort of a last minute thing which we decided about 1 week + before the trip. so we spent the rest of the time searching for photographer, cute/casual 'engagement' dress, buying make up.

we started with idea of doing in in LV cuz its sin city with its colorful lights, casinos, energy..but photographers at LV are very pricey for those which we like and those commercial ones which are slighly less pricey are very outdated in terms of their shooting styles. so.... very extremely lucky, i manage to chance upon Marilyn!! it has to be the best thing i did for that week!

her style was what we liked! she's a wonderful and talented photographer and she realli helped to make us feel comfortable in front of the lens. it helps that she speaks fluent mandarin (her mum's from taiwan teaching in LA and they have been staying there since forever!)

really thank my lucky stars to have found her (by accident) online :D so next time if you happen to be in LA, it may be worth considering spending a day doing a photoshoot. Make it an activity by itself. Its fun plus u get to explore non-touristy places. :D - she brought us to a local neighbourhood with pretty architecture, a place filled with pretty cheerful yellow flows and a not so touristy beach.

here's a group pic of us after the shoot was over (taken by younger bro)... too bad it came out very very blurry but that's the onli one i have :(

and here's one of my favorite pictures taken by her.

more of these pictures can be seen on her blog and the rest are currently on snail mail over to me ! :D