Sometimes, when I’m booked for a wedding, I’m excited because of the chance to document an incredible love story. Sometimes it’s a venue I’m dying to get to capture through my lens. Occasionally, it’s the details and the vendors I’ll get to work with. But rarely is it because I can’t WAIT to get the chance to document the joining of two incredible families. But that is definitely the case with Mandy & Bryan.
I may not have known Bryan much before this particular session. And I may not have met much of his family yet. BUT I can tell already exactly how epic this will be. Because I do know Mandy. And I do know the Branam family. I spent much of my teenage years wanting to BE a Branam. So knowing that a) Mandy totally digs this guy, b) the rest of the Branams like him too, and c) Mandy says things like “His family might actually be as cool as mine” and I know I’m in for one heck of an epic party. This might just be the greatest coalition since the joining of the words “shoes” and “sale”. Nay, since the world-changing combo of chocolate and peanut butter. It’s going to be that good people. Needless to say, I was beyond excited when Mandy & Bryan booked with me. Beeeeeeeyooooooooond.
So when Mandy & Bryan said something along the lines of “Oh hey, we want to do our engagement session at Dodger Stadium”, two things came to mind: 1) That’s like, oh, I don’t know, the PERFECT place for Mandy (she’s a sports journalist and a crazy Dodgers fan) and 2) How in the world are they going to manage that? Because, last time I checked, Dodger Stadium was one of those places in LA that gets used a lot. Cue Bryan’s crazy-awesome connections. Like knowing the head electrician for the entire stadium (who has keys to EVERYTHING). Cha-ching! We literally had the entire stadium to ourselves. That just might be the definition of awesome-sauce.
Gorg.eous. Whether or not she knows it…
Look at Bryan rockin’ his inner stud-muffin. 
And just to finish off the start of this chocolate+peanut butter+shoe+sale+epicness union, we headed over to the Griffith Observatory too. Ahhhh yeeeeaaaahhhh….
I don’t know what made Mandy laugh (as much as I would like to pretend it was me, it was probably Bryan…), but I am forever grateful to whatever it was. Because it makes for some super adorableness.
We had to break rules and go under the off-limits rope for this one, but I think it was worth it. There’s just something charming about it for me. Of course, I stayed safely on the non-rule-breaker side of the rope….
Ahhhh sunset goodness…. No post of mine is complete without a little sun-flare now is it?
Mandy, Bryan, I simply CAN’T WAIT. Bring on the epic. I’m ready!
Tracey’s not only a fighter, she has a WHOLE FAMILY of fighters too. After meeting her former-marine/policeman husband, her daredevil-Wipeout-star son, and her two gorgeous-athletic-talented daughters, I am no longer surprised by the number of votes. She is one incredible woman with one heck of a support system around her.
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