Two years ago Christina Wright from Simply Modern Weddings planned our wedding, and since then has become like family to both Aaron and I . When we found out she was having a baby we were thrilled and have truly enjoyed sharing this special time with the both of them.

Christina and James wanted to wait to find out the gender of their baby, so they invited their family and close friends to a gender reveal so they all could find out together if they were going to have a spunky little girl or a swanky little boy.

The shower was planned by Yvett of So-Cal Dj, Heather of  Paper-Monkey, and myself.  We chose to have a travel theme since Christina and James love to travel, and enjoy  being swept away to the Carribean and Italy.  To incorporate this, we had paper plane centerpieces, a global themed photo booth, and a onsie design station which had phrase like “ ciao”, “ amore” and “beso” . To play off  Christina’s love of modern design, the patterns we used were  yellow chevron and ombre, which were weaved within the stationary, cake design and  décor.

For the gender reveal we chose to have three balloons that were inside a chest. The three balloons signified the three wishes for the new little baby to be: health, happiness and love. And you can see by the smiling faces and tears in everyone’s eyes that this new baby to be will be blessed with those three wishes and more.

We are so excited to meet Christina and James little baby boy! Congrats again to the both of you, words can’t describe how happy we are for the both of you!

Thank you again to all the wonderful vendors which helped make this special day possible:

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You can see the rest of the photos from last night on my Flickr.com page.

Flamenco is such a passionate and dramatic dance with sharp vigourous movements, clapping of hands and stomping of feet, traditionally performed in the company of acoustic guitar music and a spanish vocalist. Its something that is not so much viewed and heard as it is felt. You have to experience it to understand it. It’s beautiful! It was a lot of fun to photograph.

I never once posed them, because I wanted to be sure to capture the movement of their dresses as they danced. Nicole and Natale were so cooperative, which was great because it gave me free reign to use some pretty creative lighting techniques. I really tried hard to express the dramatic mood that I think is at the heart of Flamenco dancing.