Monica and Adolfo. I can’t help but smile. These two warm, pure, playful, positive, gracious hearts have been such a joy to know and we feel so blessed to be able to call them friends. They have championed us as artists over the last year since we first met and we are thrilled to get to champion their new marriage. There are skeptics and there are dreamers. These two are dreamers – the kinds of people you’d like to be stuck on a deserted island with because you just know that they’ll be the ones to make it, to find a way home, to make the very best of what they have been given. They are full of hope and laughter (as you’ll soon see) and there is a connection between them that makes you want to love harder and listen longer. These “two school teachers from opposite sides of the country” who emailed us out of the blue so many months ago have chased each other from California to Ohio and back again in the name of love. Teachers. That should tell you all you need to know about the kinds of people Monika and Adolfo are. They are professional encouragers.
When we heard that they were getting married in Long Beach, Megan and I jumped at the opportunity to shoot somewhere new. You see, despite what you might think, it can be a very good thing to have a photographer shoot in a location they’ve never shot at before. It keeps the images fresh and real and storytelling and in the moment. The longer we do this the clearer it becomes that our job (if you can call it that) is to tell stories, and in the spirit of good storytelling, there must be spontaneity and details and specificity to keep things interesting – to keep things honest. To capture true love, bottle up just enough of it up so that it can be remembered on a good day or a rough day; at the beginning and at the end. That’s our aim.
by Micah&Megan
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