Part of our job is to make sure that all the photos we take on the wedding day represent the couples individual personalities!  We also have to know how to work well in any situation, and capture the bride and groom in an artsy, funky, fresh way, no matter what the venue looks like. We have shoot pretty much at every popular venue in Southern California, and at this moment we have a favorite! The Smog Shoppe wedding venue is literally an old smog shop that they transformed into a hip, shic, and super rad wedding venue. Its small and not overwhelming... and the colors and atmosphere the Smog Shoppe provides is seriously rad! When choosing a venue a bride should keep a couple of things in mind... 1. your wedding day colors (does the place have old brown carpet and your wedding day colors are red and black?), 2. your personalities (do you want elegant or hip?), 3. how does the space fit with your wedding and the amount of guests (did you invite 50 people,  but you booked a 400 person venue?). Mark and I got married on a boat in Newport beach. At the time we thought it would be perfect. It fit 400 people, we wanted people to be trapped (which they obviously were), and we wanted something different. The only problem about our venue was that we only got "Boat" pictures. It would have been nice to get married at the smog shoppe so we could have lots of color, fun decor, and rad places to walk around the venue for photos. So with that being said, we are so excited for our upcoming weddings at the smog shoppe!

Kelsie and Jason! Have you ever met someone that makes you smile the minute he or she starts to talk? A few weeks before Jason and Kelsies wedding I got a phone call from Kelsie regarding wedding photography. For some reason all I could do was smile during the conversation. She made me laugh, and get excited about her upcoming wedding, and her relationship with Jason.  I knew immediately that they were a perfect fit for Mark Brooke Photography! Kelsie and Jason knew each other for about four months before they started dating. They exchanged the "your cute", yeah "your cute too" conversation and then the rest is history. Through out their wedding you could tell they were madly in love and a perfect couple. We were so excited to be apart of their wedding. Here are just a few of our favorite photos from  the day!

p.s. they got married at the smog shoppe!