Got an e-mail yesterday from Charissa: “Hey Jack, Yes, we’re in Thailand, by the pool in tropical Krabi, enjoying the free wi-fi the hotel provides We’ll be looking forward to the photos! Charissa “.

Charissa and Mike married last Saturday in Pasadena and now they are Thailand honeymooning! How sweet!

I got to know Charissa two years ago when I was photographing Marissa and Andy’s wedding in northern California. Charissa was one of Marissa’s bridesmaids (Yes, during the high hours of Charissa’s wedding, I did call her ‘Marissa’ a couple of times :-). Last Saturday I was very fortunate and honored to photograph another beautiful wedding in California for Charissa and Mike.

I met up with my second shooter, Kelly Challender , a LA area wedding photographer, in the morning at 8AM for breakfast and photographed the whole event together until after 10PM. Given Charissa a lot of credits for planning her wedding so well. She left some extra times here and there so nobody felt rushed. As photographer, I was specially delighted that Charissa and Mike allocated a lot of time for both before and after the ceremony for bridal sessions and we were able to photograph this beautiful couple in several nice locations. The whole wedding went along in a relaxed and smooth pace. Great job, Charissa!

The ceremony was held at the chapel on the beautiful campus of Occidental College. The chapel was absolutely beautiful. The nice lady there, Beverly, didn’t restrict us much in terms of photographing but neither me nor Kelly used flash - it would have killed the mood. Afterward, we moved on to the reception site, Mission 261, a very fine restaurant. Charissa and Mike treated the guests with great foods. Oh, I wish I was one of the guests!

Here is a ‘Tiny’ highlight I’d like to share. Marissa and Andy and Marissa’s parents drove down for the wedding, with their new born baby, Ben. I was so happy to see them! Near the end of the reception, I saw Marissa managing among the tables, holding the baby, with a big bag on her shoulder and her mom following behind. All too familiar sight! I knew what happened! I went with them to the VIP room upstairs and volunteered to wipe little Ben’s tiny, softy butt clean Little Ben was pretty nice to me and didn’t ‘discharge’ much! Oh, he was so cute!

Anyway, I had a GREAT day photographing Charissa and Mike’s wedding. I posted several images below and a little bit more in the slideshow. Eventually, all images will be loaded to their web gallery hosted by Pictage.

Thanks again Charissa and Mike and enjoy the honeymoon!

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