I have to say I love the story of meeting in the workplace since it is one near and dear to my heart.  Jeff and I met and started having lunch almost 11 years ago when we worked at a studio together doing Home Depot’s catalog photography.  Well, this is where Jeff and Kacy met too. I mean where do you spend most of your time?  It is bound to happen that near the water cooler, in an elevator, at lunch, or a mere conversation at the passing of your desk may turn into a romance.  So it did for the two that romance struck and Jeff asked Kacy to marry him.  When I heard of his proposal I thought it was the sweetest thing.   Jeff put the ring in a Monopoly game and asked Kacy to play.  Thankfully she said yes to both playing the game that night as well as marrying Jeff because, it brought all of us here to this fabulous day at The Viceroy.

Kacy was such a classy bride and her gown was absolutely stunning, a design by Ines di Santo.  This bride rocked the Hollywood Glam style, love it girl!

This was one of our favorite photos of Kacy, such a fabulous moment and composition with the bride, maid of honor and bride’s grandma!

We just love all of the details!

Here is our handsome Groom, Jeff, almost ready to go!

Jeff and Kacy decided on doing a “first look” and saw each other before the ceremony and shot some photos.  We love doing this because the couple has a chance to see each other for the first time in a beautiful setting.  Just for the two to have a moment!  It brings tears to everyone’s eyes.

Here comes the bride!

Jeff looked so happy to see his bride!

The two meet!

We all loved the Orange Door in this photo!

Our Groom

This is a shot of our bride as I mentioned to look over at her groom Jeff, she just lit up!

It’s ceremony time with the mountain in the background!

So happy to be married, love love love their expressions!

Cake by: Pastry Swan Bakery in Cathedral City

First Dance

I happen to look over at this mirror at one point and saw the reflection of the two dancing.  I just loved that it looked like they were dancing in the room like no one was watching!

Kacy kicked off her shoes while dancing during the reception, so the creative in me took over and here are the rings!

It was a beautiful wedding with a stunning couple at a fabulous venue, who could ask for anything more.  We wish Jeff and Kacy all of the best in their married life together and thank you again for having Sipper Photography be a part of one of the best day of your lives.  We love what we do, cheers to you both!  J+D

Hair by: Cindy Diep from Alexander Salon in Brea, CA
Make-Up by: Gary at Chanel Sak’s Fifth Avenue in Palm Desert gary_griffin@s5a.com

Music by: DJ James Gonzales at Music Media Entertainment

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We are offering a portrait special for anyone who needs an updated Business or Personal Portrait. This would be a great time to update your portrait for your website, blogs, marketing materials or social media profile photos.  Feel free to contact us with any questions or to schedule your session! Hope to see you soon! J+D

Flyer Design by: Tanya Salcido at Design Action Studios

Nominees are announced in the February 22, 2010 edition of the Orange County Business Journal

Here is our Nominee Profile

Congratulations Page with a list of all of the 2010 Nominees.  You can see our names just above.

In our nominee profile there is mention of another recent credit we received and wanted to share with you!  We recently had one of our photos credited on Forbes.com feature entitled Web Celeb 25!  A big congratulations to Danny Sullivan for making the list and our sincere thanks for using our portrait.

Here is the shot of Danny seen at Forbes.com

Life is good and we are so happy to be recognized for our work and talent.  It is amazing that all of this comes from something we love, our passion of photography.

]]> http://sipperphotography.com/blog/2010/02/sipper-photography-in-oc-business-journal-forbes/feed/ 1 http://sipperphotography.com/blog/2010/02/sipper-photography-in-oc-business-journal-forbes/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sipperphotography/IMeX/~3/guycokH8-Lo/ http://sipperphotography.com/blog/2010/02/valentines-engagement-contest-winner/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:46:39 +0000 Dana Sipper http://sipperphotography.com/blog/?p=1097 Well, the Valentine’s season proved to be busy for us after shooting a couple of weddings this last week.  We shared two fabulous wedding days, with two great couples.  In the midst of all this work and love we wanted stop and congratulate all of you who got engaged too!  Valentine’s is such a fun and romantic time to say “YES” and say “I do” and since we were already a part of a few ” I do’s” we thought we would come up with a little fun for our newly engaged with our Valentine’s Engagement Contest.

We want to thank you for taking the time to participate and telling us your stories.   Congratulations to all of you on your engagements!  We have picked our winner, we would like to send a Big Congrats out to Dana-Beth + Richard who have won our Free Engagement Session by Sipper Photography.

The couples story is below, as I read their story it brought tears to my eyes.  I felt suspense, surprise, love and joy for them!  Most of you know that I am a total sap, a sucker for this love thing!  We loved the story, a helicopter, fireworks… how fun and romantic!  Kudos goes out to Richard for planning such a fabulous night and though you had your time constraints, you kept your cool!  Oh, and Dana-Beth, you asking for the flash light was classic!  A total girl thing!  We loved your story, thank you for sharing it with us!

Our Valentine’s Helicopter Engagement Story!

Too much time…
Our evening began like everyone else, with dinner! We went to our favorite restaurant Roman Cucina, in Sunset Beach. We brought a bottle of wine with us to have at the bar anticipating there would be a long wait, like the previous year on Valentine’s Day, there had been an hour and a half wait. However, this year was a little different… We walked right in and were able to sit down. I was happy because I was hungry, my boyfriend on other hand suddenly had to figure out how to stall for two hours because he had the evening on a timed schedule that I didn’t know about! He asked the waiter to bring out our appetizer and then put our dinner order in to try and drag out dinner, I didn’t think anything of it. We finished our wine with dinner and he said, “now lets go get dessert”!

Perfect Timing…
We left our home in Huntington Beach and within 20 minutes arrived at LA Helicopters at the Long Beach Airport! We boarded our helicopter with pilot Eddie and I was so excited, I have been wanting to go in one for so long, my boyfriend even had brought a long a bottle of champagne for the ride. I still didn’t think anything of it, other than what a perfect romantic Valentine’s gift! We were flying over the Orange County area when we arrived in the Anaheim area and as the helicopter began to hover and the bottle of Champagne was opened the Disneyland fireworks started to go off! I immediately had the biggest smile on my face that they had perfectly planned out with my boyfriend the helicopter route so we could watch the fireworks, he knows they are my favorite thing to watch! While hovering over them for about a minute my boyfriend, said, “Dana-Beth… Dana-Beth…Honey….HONEY”, it took him a minute to get my attention I was in awe of the fireworks! I looked at him and he took out the ring and proposed! I said, “YES!” we kissed, followed by me asking the pilots, “do you guys have a flashlight?”, everyone laughed, I wanted to see the ring and it was very dark up there! After the grand finale of fireworks the pilot flew us to downtown Los Angeles where we flew around LA’s tallest buildings! We landed safely back and ended the night with a drink at the restaurant where we first met! The evening was a dream to come true start to finish! I could not have dreamt of a more perfect Valentine’s.

In Love,
Dana-Beth & Richard

Cheers to Richard + Dana-Beth!  We can’t wait to shoot your engagement session and celebrate this fabulous time with you both!

Love, Love, Love! What a romantic time to get married or engaged on Valentines.

We want to know… Did you get engaged?

Sipper Photography is hosting a Valentine’s contest for “Best Engagement Story”!  Tell us about your engagement story, how did he propose?

Was it romantic? Fun? Quarky? On the beach? On a Boat? In a Helicopter? At a restaurant?  Where did you say “Yes”?

Jeff and I will be picking the best story and our winning couple will receive a Free Engagement Session by Sipper Photography! Celebrate your engagement with a one hour session at the location of your choice!

Send us your story today by emailing us at info@sipperphotography.com our contest ends this Sunday, February 21st.  We will announce the winner at our blog on Monday, February 22nd!

We can’t wait to hear your engagement stories!  Congratulations to all of you!  J+D

Here is a little Friday Fun I thought I would share.  I recently had the opportunity to do a shoot for Argosy University and the Orange Chamber and met Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda, yes Mr. Dodger himself.  What an honor to shoot this event and hear Tommy speak.  That man loves baseball!  He reminded me of my dad, always could talk about baseball and his team.  In my dad’s case it was the Yankees, but the passion was just the same, he loved baseball and all of the history that went with the game.

I snapped several photos of Tommy speaking and even got a photo with him myself.  My friend Tanya of Design Action Studios was also there and put together a little video montage of the event and his speech which you can view here.  If you like baseball, especially the Dodger’s you want to watch this!

Here is Tommy when he arrived!

Here is Tommy exercising his freedom of speech!

Orange Chamber Ribbon Cutting for Argosy University

Me and Tommy, it was such an honor to meet him…you can see how excited I am!

Me, Tommy and my friend Tanya

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