Heather and Sean are two amazing people that I met this past Fall. When I got Heathers email inquiring about shooting her wedding I got sooooo excited! Honestly the world as I know it is getting smaller! Heather knows some of our past clients, and she lives in the area. It's crazy how everyone seems to know everyone "some way or another" in our area. Well after meeting with Sean and Heather over a cup of coffee, I was convinced that we needed to be apart of their wedding! They are so sweet, cute, and soooo in love! We feel honored that we get to be apart of their wedding... here are just a few of our favorite engagement images!

NOTE: if you are looking for an amazing massage therapist, Heather is your girl!!! Email us for her contact info!!!

Mark and I feel sooooo lucky to be apart of an amazing, TALENTED, photography community. Because of this we get to meet awesome new people, and admire a lot of different types of work. I found Joy on a popular wedding blog and immediately fell in love with her photography.  I quickly sent over an email to inquire about her photographing our new family of four... next thing I know I start falling in LOVE with Joy and her amazing personality and spirit. What we ended up doing was agreeing to photograph each others families... So two weeks ago we got to spend time with their Beautiful family! I am soooo excited because in February it will be our turn.... I don't want to ruin the fun, so you will have to wait to see what Joy has planned for us... lets just say it involves snow :)

There are a lot of Rad Mark Brooke Clients out there... But H + M are some our favorites! When I met H, I knew she was the perfect Mark Brooke fit.... She is HISTORICAL and her energy level is out of this world! They are such a cute couple and we could not be more thrilled to be apart of their awesome wedding!

Here are just a few of our favorite images!

Dear fellow awesome photographers,

It is that time again! We are launching our Mark Brooke Classes.... and they are even better than before! We are launching three classes: Rad photos 101, Reception and off Camera Lighting, and Booking Out Your Year. We love teaching our classes!

We have been full time wedding photographers for many years now and we put a lot of love, time, energy, brain power, and thought into our business. Every decision that we make is thoroughly thought through and we spend a lot of time chatting about what direction we want to go in. We have fought hard to make our business a strong, artsy, fun, happy, colorful, photojournalistic brand. We love what we do, and we honestly love all of our clients! So where we are today in our business has not been based on "luck", and we would love to share why we believe that. We also love teaching our Mark Brooke Classes. Workshops for photographers have become very popular over the years, but we have chosen to stick to teaching topic specific classes that can help photographers grow in areas that need attention. At our classes we laugh, we learn, and we have a lot of fun. Because they are only two hours you won’t leave with information overload. We have taught these classes several times and we are thrilled to be launching them again. You can take one class or you can take them all.

The number of photographers for each class is limited to keep the learning community small. We want you to be able to ask questions and truly LEARN! If you book 2 classes we are giving the 3rd half off! If you are a husband and wife team you must buy two "seats", but we will discount the 2nd seat by 50% (email if you have questions on this).

We hope to see you soon! Please click the link to find out more about the details!

http://markbrooke.com/classes/

IF YOU’RE A BRIDE PLEASE ENJOY THE AWESOME IMAGES BELOW, IF YOU ARE  A PHOTOGRAPHER PLEASE READ THE LEFT COLUMN!

OR CLICK HERE: http://markbrooke.com/classes/

Hello 2012! Mark and I are so excited for this next wedding season, year of meeting awesome couples, traveling, and spending more time with Family. We are big on setting new year resolutions, and this year we have a LONG list of things we would like to do professionally and as a family! I am super excited to share MANY more rad couples on our blog in the next few weeks!

This fun New Years Eve shoot was done in our NEW studio! It was designed by one of our favorite coordinators; Lindye Galloway, and it was also featured on Green Wedding shoes (our favorite wedding blog).

We hope all our blog readers are having a wonderful start to their 2012!!!!

Everyone has their struggles in life, and mark and I definitely have them .... but finding each other was not one of them! We were 16 years old when I first met Mark.... From the day I said "Hi, I'm Candice" to the day we got married we were attached at the hip (except for the 3 month breakup that all teenagers have at some point, lol). You know those weird people that say "I just knew he was the one the minute I met him", well I think we are both those people. After dating for 5 years, we got married at the age of 21 and 22. We had a cute wedding on one of those boats in Newport Beach. I turned the corner to walk down the aisle in my white wedding dress, and there was Mark with a big smile, crying. At that moment I knew I was making the best decision of my life! I know I'm a bit sappy when I talk about Mark, and thats because I'M IN LOVE WITH HIM! Now fast forward almost 5 years into marriage....This past Christmas was amazing! It was the first Christmas we had both of our boys... not to mention they were at the perfect "santa/open gifts" age. Oslo had fun just playing with the wrapping paper. And the $1 gifts I bought wyatt "blew his mind with excitement"! Two days before christmas we celebrated with our little family of four.... then Christmas eve with my family, and Christmas day with Marks Family. It was truly an amazing week! Here are just a few of the images we captured of our new family of four :)

Thank you Molly for taking some of these awesome photos!

Christmas with extended family:

Wyatt got a potty for christmas. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Our little Christmas at our house

I love being a mom... I just got done reading the book "Mission of Motherhood" and it has completely given me a new perspective on life. If any working moms are struggling out their and need encouragement, please read this book!

Mark and I love shooting weddings!... but every once in a while we get the chance to capture a new little one! Kyah is my good friend Amber and Pauls little bundle of joy. Amber and Paul are such amazing people and we know they are going to be the best parents on the planet! Here are just a few photos we snapped the first week of Kyah's life :)

We are almost done posting all of our awesome 2011 Holiday Shoots. It has been super fun meeting new clients and seeing old ones. Chris and Akiko were wedding clients of ours two years ago, and now they are a family of three. Their daughter Brooke is so cute!!! It was so fun to see them again and watch their family grow :) We love Babies!!!

Here are just a few of our favorite images!

One of our favorite types of shoots are our "post wedding shoots".... on the wedding day we get awesome images, but during the post wedding shoots, it's so fun to take our time and really capture some rad images that might not be available on the wedding day. When we meet with clients we like to mention that each image we take should be able to be used as a "piece of art over your mantel"... post wedding shoots are just that.

Last week we got to rock Kate and Franks post wedding shoot and it was soooo much fun! Kate and Frank are two amazing people that are so in love. We were honored to be apart of their entire wedding process, so seeing them again was awesome! Here are just a few of our favorite images!

Yup, there are lots more Holiday shoots coming your way! We were able to hang out with Kris and Danielle last week for a half hour while we rocked an awesome Holiday shoot. They are super cute newly weds and really awesome people! Here are just a few of our favorite images!