Justine Ungaro Photography - Modern Weddings & Lifestyle Editorials - Los Angeles, CA - Washington, DC

Sometimes I forget to ask people how they got my name or where they heard about me. In fact I usually forget. But sometimes when I arrive at a wedding and see some familiar faces, I can trace back the referral to a past client of mine. This was one of those weddings. But when I saw the familiar faces, I realized that I had never actually met them. They were actually Jenni’s clients, but since I had done their post-processing and wedding album design, I thought that I knew them. Jill & Stephen (the familiar faces) had been a referral from Molley & Tim, some of my clients from 2008 back in DC. So this particular referral string led me all the way from Washington DC to Lake Tahoe for Amanda & Mike’s wedding.

Like many of my weddings, I never actually got to meet Amanda and Mike until the day of their wedding. But I immediately adored them. They were just the coolest, most laid-back couple ever…not to mention super cute. The wedding was held up at the Lakeview Lodge at the Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, we had to take a gondola just to get up there and wow, what a view. Lake Tahoe may just be one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to. A big thank you to Jaime Emery for coming along to shoot this one with me!

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Memorial Day weekend this year was a busy one for me…and I know, I’m way way late to be blogging about Memorial Day weekend but what can I do. Jenni & I started the day with Tracy over at the Sofitel in Washington DC and eventually made it over to Decatur House which is right next door to the White House. Personally I love a wedding that is all in one location. No driving, no traffic, it make everything so much more streamlined…and fun.

I was just tickled to work with some fabulous vendors on this wedding:
Coordinator: Ritzy Bee
Flowers: Chapple Flowers
Caterer: Susan Gage

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Well after a ton of traveling and a ton of shooting this summer, I have tons and tons of images to blog. So first thing first.

Sarika and Prabhu were one of those couples that I just adored right from the start. Lucky for me that I get to spend two wedding days with them. One wedding in San Diego where Sarika is from and another wedding celebration in Washington DC 2 weeks later where they live. It’s going to be gorgeous and I was so thrilled to be able to get these two in front of my camera for their engagement session a few weeks ago.

We started out behind shooting behind Sarika’s parents house with Sarika in this gorgeous eggplant-colored sari which she brought back from a recent trip to India and then headed off to La Jolla for a little variety.

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Thanks so much for being so much fun to shoot, I’m so excited for next month!