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    Hi! I'm Melissa, a Santa Barbara based Wedding and Portrait Photographer.
    As incredible as it is to capture spontaneous moments, I equally enjoy giving posing direction, and styling instruction, to create images you'll cherish for a lifetime.

    I bring that joy and enthusiasm to each of my photo shoots, be it wedding, portrait or pet.

    I hope you enjoy the photos and stories I've posted. Browse around, and then I'd love to hear from you.

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L is for Love

 

My dear friend, and very talented Santa Barbara floral and event designer, Nico Cervantes compiled an inspirational book of  event design called L is for Love. I was honored to be invited by Nico to be one of the photographers in his book. Doing these photos shoots gave me a whole new respect for event designers. It’s a ton of work to make everything look so effortless and beautiful. Here are some photographs from his wood inspired photo shoot. I love how he used something as simple as wood and glitter for the “place cards”.  The brooch pinned to the bark used as a napkin ring is brilliant. So unique.

With autumn just around the corner perhaps you’ll enjoy the inspiration.

Beach Maternity Session

 


It’s hard to beat the satisfaction I feel, when a couple starts with me for their engagement session and continues to use my services throughout their lives.
I was so excited to get the news that Allison and Tony are going to be parents. The minute I found out I started counting down to the best time to do her pregnancy photo shoot. Allison is such a joy to photograph. I hope you’ll enjoy our results. I’m over the moon happy for them and can’t wait to photograph their newborn baby.

 

Montecito Weddings

She found me online and called me up. We had a great conversation, which quickly lead me to refer her to Colette from LaFete Weddings. Sometimes you just know when someone is going to be a perfect match. She called Colette and soon they were planning a gorgeous Mount Carmel Church wedding and Four Seasons Biltmore reception.

Not long after that Gigi and Billy were flying me to New York City to photograph their engagement session. It was August, 95 degrees and 99% humidity. Not a great hair day, but Gigi was not about to let that interfere with the fun we had planned for the day.

We met in at the Metro Diner. After a day of buzzing around the city, it shouldn’t surprise you that they were cooling their tootsies in a fountain.

Their wedding was as beautiful as planned. If you live in Santa Barbara or Montecito you may recognize some of these photos as they were just published in the Montecito Journal glossy edition.

My husband Paul made the sweet little “Just Married” sign for the bicycle.