St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church
2200 San Joaquin Hills Road
Newport Beach, CA. 92660
(949) 644-1341

Turnip Rose
1901 Newport Blvd
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(949) 645-4114

Lakerrrrrrs!!!! You know that Tommy and Elizabeth are serious Los Angeles Lakers fans when they choose Gold and Purple for their wedding colors! Kobe was on the invite list, but I guess he was unavailable. Definitely one of the more chill couples that I have met, they helped keep a very relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere on their day by giving out lots of hugs, smiles and laughter (a little early morning Starbucks and McDonalds didn’t hurt either) . . .

Gold shoes required . . .

Elizabeth . . .

Shazam!!!

Ceremony in Newport Beach at the contemporary and beautiful St. Marks Presbyterian . . .

Photos and reception followed at the fantastic Turnip Rose in Costa Mesa . . .

Usually guys are a little conservative when I ask them to jump off of something. First time was the charm for this group . . .

Lakers in full effect . . . (flowers by Amanda Heer at Fantasy Floral Designs)

OK, let’s keep the Lakers color theme going!!! The Tunrip Rose Grand Ballroom . . .

Tommy and Elizabeth set the tone for the enitre reception with their awesome and loud grand entrance. They had the entire ballroom on their feet cheering and clapping as they danced in and just kept dancing and dancing and dancing. SO much fun!

Most of the reception was loaded with about a 100 song set chosen by Tommy himself – there was NO stopping.

Check out Orange County DJ Bruce Battleson shredding some beats . . .

If you went to this wedding you were definitely sore the next day and you won’t forget how much fun you had. You know who you are!

Thank you to all the vendors who participated in Elizabeth and Tommy’s wedding day:

Day of Coordinator – Lilly Tokuyama
2nd photographers – Jeffrey Neal and Greg Bumatay
DJ/MC – Bruce Battleson
Cake – Rockwell’s Creative Cakes
Florist – Fantasy Floral Designs, Amanda Heer
Hair – Christopher von Kolen from Paul Jean Salon and Tary Ho of The Thuy Project.
Photo Booth – Cheesy Photobooths

This wedding was recently featured at LA Style Unveiled.

To view other weddings photographed by Hoffmann at the Turnip Rose in Costa Mesa, follow these links:

Turnip Rose Wedding

Turnip Rose Wedding

A few weeks ago I drove to beautiful San Diego to knock down three engagement sessions in three hours! Wha?!?! Before you give me a hard time, let me explain a little . . . this was actually an educational session set-up by San Diego Shootout for the purpose of photographers getting together to take pictures, share ideas and show off all our new equipment, hahah. Of course, Nikon took the best pictures that day!! Again.

The shoot went down in Little Italy which turned out to be a great place for engagement photos with lots of different backdrops and photo opps. “Shootout” had three very different couples with very different styles. You can see, it was fun to work with all of them . . .

I classified this couple under “alternative” and so it was easy in post-production to lay on some textures and let their personalities come out even more in the photographs . . .

During the shoot I ended up getting a parking ticket from Officer Raspberry (that is her real name and she was not in a joking mood), and so in the spirit of education I took a picture so I would remember for next time . . .

This next couple earned ‘cute points’ and I filed their style under “Surf/Coastal.”

For the last engagement session they went with colorful and exotic. I likey!

There wasn’t really a great reason for photographing the HD signage but hey, it sort of matched . . .

Something that couples can take away from this blog is that there aren’t many set rules on what you can wear for your engagement session. Think about the end product – the images – and what you want people to read about you. Show your style and your personality! Be you!

Beyond photography, Little Italy turned out to be a very satisfying dinner stop. You can just guess what kind of food is available.