Before Esther and Daniel got married my parents had a dinner for them at the house. They had their friends over and my dad barbecued and my mom and grandmas cooked the food.
Here’s my dad cooking the meat outside.
Wiggles, Esther, Grandmas, and Daniel.
Esther and grandmas.
Now here’s the awesome fabulous food!
Just looking at all the food is making me hungry!
xoxo
Chrissy Kim
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Taka had asked me if I would like to photograph him proposing to his girlfriend Tao in Huntington Beach.
So of course I said yes!
I’ve known Taka for about a year now, we met through mutual friends, and found out we have a few more mutual friends. Small world huh?
Taka wanted me to take these photos incognito. Good thing Tao never met me, or else she would have known something was up.
I sat on a bench taking pictures of my surroundings when they arrived so I wouldn’t be so obvious when taking pictures of them.
Here they are arriving.
Lets go towards the cliffs to take some pictures.
I’m trying to tell Taka where him and Tao should stand so I get some good facial reactions.
Crap! She’s looking straight at me!
Mom, can you take some pictures for us?
Mom slowly started walking closer and closer to them.
Scoot back! you’re getting too close!
Taking out the ring!
Will you marry me?
Strike a pose!
Putting the ring on.
Yay!
Tao’s mom, Tao, and Taka.
So much happiness.
Reenacting the proposal with a beg.
🙂
I’m so glad that everything worked out and I was able to capture this moment for them.
Congratulations on the engagement Taka and Tao!
xoxo
Chrissy Kim
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Stone was born April 25, 2010. These photos that are coming up were taken April 26.
Let me just tell you a story about how I came to take pictures when he was less 24 hours after he was born.
Me and his mom Jasmine are friends- you can see her maternity photos and the baby shower photos that I did for her.
I came down to San Diego for a few days on Sunday the 25th and we had previously decided to hang out on Monday. I text messaged her sunday night. I then got a message a few hours later saying “uh.. Jas had her baby today. She and baby are doing well”. Apparently I had text messaged her while she was in the middle labor with Stone.
So of course I got super excited! Because she was due this past weekend while I was supposed to be in Mexico. So I’m really happy that I got to see Stone and Jasmine and Jorge.
So these pictures are of Stone Monday afternoon at the hospital. He’s less than 24 hours in these photos!
I’m really happy I was able to capture these moments for her 🙂
Stone is so precious!
Jasmine and Stone’s hands.
Stone’s little feet!
Jasmine with Stone.
Getting burped.
Hello there precious!
Learning how to swaddle.
Stone and his dad Jorge.
Family Photo.
I hope you enjoyed these photos! I told Stone he may hate me now for making him naked (I didn’t pst the naked photos) and being a little bit cold, but he’ll love me in the future so that he has these photos 🙂
Good thing I like kids. I told Jasmine she can’t go MIA on me just because she had Stone.
xoxo
Chrissy Kim
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Esther and Daniel went to the Beverly Hills Courthouse and got their civil marriage done. Because they are getting married in Mexico, the rules are a little bit different, so they had to get a civil marriage done.
I of course, went with them to not only be their photographer but as their witness.
Here they are signing the paperwork
Waiting for the judge to call them so they can have their ceremony.
Here they are standing in front of the judge.
Poor thing started to cry.
I now pronounce you Husband and Wife. The judge even threw some flowers up in the air.
You may now kiss the bride!
Here I am signing as their witness. (It looks like I just woke up :/ don’t hate)
Yay! They’re married!
Their real wedding ceremony is this weekend in Cabo San Lucas at the Esperanza Resort.
I unfortunately will not be able to take pictures during the ceremony (because I’m the Maid of Honor) but will be able to take pictures throughout the trip! Christine Chang is the wedding photographer so check her website later for pictures from the wedding!
xoxo
Chrissy Kim
EMAILPOSTEsther had her Bachelorette party in San Diego. We stayed at the Westin in the Gaslamp and went to Yardhouse, and then went bar/club hopping. We went to Star Bar (for some reason, I always have to start the night off here, cheap drinks!). We then headed to Fluxx, then Stingaree, and then to Andaz aka Ivy. We didn’t stay in one place too long.
So this post is for the start of the night. Since SLRs aren’t allowed to be taken into clubs, I had to leave my camera in the hotel room. One of Esther’s bridesmaid’s, Shannon brought her point and shoot, so I was using her camera. I have to wait for her to send me the pictures to post those up. (I need to invest in a good point and shoot soon).
I’m not a big fan of tackiness and trashiness. So I asked that Esther’s bachelorette party not do phallic stuff. I didn’t want to be walking around looking trashy.
But, Esther’s Bridesmaid Sam ended up getting some balloons.
I have to give kudo’s to her because I didn’t even notice for a while that there were symbols on the balloons, and it was more cartoon-y then anything.
Here’s Esther with her tiara and martini glass.
Our bling for the night.
Everyone in the room was highly unskilled. So Esther had to pop the champagne.
We played a game where everyone brought in underwear that represented themselves. Esther had to try to figure out who brought what. She she got it wrong she had to take a swig from her martini glass.
Sam’s was the pink one that said HAVE FUN. I’ve decided not to post that one up because she wore it for the picture. I wont do embarassing photos 🙂
Here’s a group photo of all the girls that came out
The Bridal party
We took a shots before we left. Here a picture of my ‘shot glass’
Everyone getting ready to take their shots, including me!
It was also Shannons birthday, so Esther got Shannon a cake from Michele Coulon Dessertier. The cake was bomb! It was Nathan’s Lemon Cake. We took it to yard house with us and ate it for dessert.
So that’s it for this blog post. Once I get the pictures from Shannon there will be another post!
The later part of the night was filled with eating at Yard House seeing a few bachelor parties going on and talking and taking pictures with them. Leaving penis balloons randomly around downtown (on lamp posts and trash cans and trees). A dance battle at Fluxx. Having the director of Security at Andaz put us into the Hotel Escalade because we were all a little intoxicated , and convincing our driver to take us to get Mexican food. I don’t know how much of that was documented but it all happened 🙂
xoxo
Chrissy Kim
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