tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48640756718204627932024-03-18T22:48:35.910-07:00connie lyu photography { fine art weddings + portraiture }LOS ANGELES / SANTA BARBARA / SAN DIEGO / WORLDWIDEconnie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-32539839617032883102011-08-06T13:20:00.000-07:002011-08-06T22:25:12.998-07:00the blog has moved!<span style="font-size: large;"><b>New blog and website everybody!</b></span><br />
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Mosey on over to <a href="http://connielyu.com/">http://connielyu.com </a>and update your rss feeds!connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-734442112690146622011-07-15T01:41:00.000-07:002011-07-15T14:34:55.430-07:00Lauren + Colin Wedding {Fallbrook}<i>"It is not your love that sustains marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love." Dietrich Bonhoeffer </i><br />
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Lauren and Colin...seriously a sweet sweet couple. It was such a blessing to be part of their day... just seeing the love they have for each other, their family and friends... and their desire for God to be at the center of their marriage. Lauren and Colin, what can I say? Even in the short time I've gotten to know the two of you, I can already tell you guys are perfectly matched -- you two make each other better. You guys are awesome and I wish you two a blessed marriage!<br />
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They got married at the <a href="http://www.fallbrooktreehouse.com/">Fallbrook Treehouse</a>, lucky for me! Where else can you find a treehouse, beautiful open space and a small lake? I also had an awesome second shooter: <a href="http://lynnchyi.com/">Lynn Chyi</a>. (He's tall, dark and single ladies! Yes, I'm pimping you out Lynn. )<br />
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If you like those pom pom vines, you can find the <a href="http://www.oncewed.com/17979/wedding-blog/diy-wedding/diy-wedding-pom-pom-vines/">tutorial</a> over at <a href="http://www.oncewed.com/">Once Wed</a>! <br />
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sneak peak from sunggil and tiff's engagement session in pasadena!connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-29882901222305465552011-07-05T01:10:00.000-07:002011-07-05T01:12:19.189-07:00happy independence day!<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/07/_MG_4568.jpg" /><br />
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I hope you all enjoyed your 4th of July! Mine was low-key and sadly, BBQ-absent...but nonetheless celebrated with great people :).connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-2198741655222060652011-06-19T19:03:00.000-07:002011-06-19T19:03:34.180-07:00lauren + colin {teaser}a little sneak peak from yesterday's wedding! who could resist a wedding at a location with a treehouse and little lake!?<br />
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quiet and peaceful moment of prayer at today's wedding..connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0Fallbrook, CA 92028, USA33.3764196 -117.2511465999999733.3288206 -117.29782059999997 33.4240186 -117.20447259999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-89465600184935428862011-06-05T22:51:00.000-07:002011-06-05T22:56:08.553-07:00weekend festivities<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/06/_MG_0188.jpg" /><br />
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tell me the bartender doesn't look like conan o' brien! uncanny! <br />
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a great ending to a short but sweet birthday.connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-8028038238070915182011-05-30T22:16:00.000-07:002011-05-31T22:18:01.181-07:00bridal showA couple highlights from the San Diego <span class="il">Bridal</span> <span class="il">Show</span> at the <a href="http://www.hardrockhotelsd.com/">Hard Rock Hotel</a> that I attended with the wonderful ladies over at <a href="http://www.utterlyengaged.com/">Utterly Engaged</a> a couple months back down in san diego. I was mostly manning the booth and snatching up wonderful tasty treats, can you tell? :)<br />
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our gorgeous florals by <a href="http://isariflowerstudio.com/">isari flower studio</a>!<br />
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yummy cupcakes from<a href="http://cupslj.com/"> cups lj</a><br />
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A sweet fact: Tim later asked Jee out with latte art (the man makes a mean cup of coffee i am told)! The beginning of a wonderful love story between a sweet southern boy from alabama and an equally sweet Jee. :) <br />
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People like Jee and Tim remind me why I love being a wedding photographer. I've just gotten to get to know them not too long ago, but they are such a joy and blessing to know. They are people I want to keep in touch with, way after the wedding. The way they care and serve one another, their service to their church families and the countless "I love Tim and Jee!"s I've heard from mutual friends the past few months are only a few of the many hints/traces of the kind of people they are. In the months leading up to their engagement session, I would even get emails from Jee telling me that she loved a recent post I put up or that she was so happy I was her wedding photographer. Jee & Tim, I'm the lucky one. Can't wait to see you guys get hitched! <br />
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We decided to have our shoot up north in beautiful Santa Barbara (I tried to cut down an otherwise humungo shoot, I swear!) : <br />
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If you're wondering why that particular piece of music...it's the song being played in the music box! <br />
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another snippet of jee + tim... because the light is just so beautiful..connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-51577131717440191402011-05-14T15:31:00.000-07:002011-05-14T21:48:56.349-07:00dear sugar<center><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3445/5721232264_81777f661d_b.jpg" /></center><br />
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I rarely read advice columns but once in a while you happen upon a good one and you just have to share. Plus, this is a good one for when wedding planning is driving you sweet brides nuts. It's from the <a href="http://therumpus.net/sections/blogs/dear-sugar/">Dear Sugar</a> advice column on <a href="http://therumpus.net/2011/04/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-70-a-motorcycle-with-no-one-on-it/">The Rumpus</a>. Enjoy!<br />
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<div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dear Sugar,<br />
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I’m getting married in July. Why do I feel totally aggressive and angry? How does anyone get through this event?<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Aggressive,</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">My guess is you’re the bride and that you feel aggressive and angry because you’re in wedding planning hell and you’re caught up in all the expectations, outdated fairy tales, overpriced products, and irrational beliefs that one adheres to when one believes it possible to flawlessly orchestrate the behaviors, conversations, drinking habits and outfits of a large group of in-laws, out-laws, friends, strangers and coworkers while simultaneously having a meaningful and intimate exchange with your sweetheart in front of an audience. It is not. Or at least it’s not possible in exactly the way you’re imagining now, sweet pea. I’m quite certain that whatever you’re all worked up about these days—the colors of your napkins, the invitation that should or should not be sent to your mother’s cousin Ray—matters little and whatever will actually happen on that day in July when you get married will positively blow your mind.Your wedding is going to be a kick, honey bun, but only after you accept that it isn’t something to “get through.” Perhaps it might help to stop thinking about it as the perfect “event,” but rather a messy, beautiful, and gloriously unexpected day in your sweet life. My own wedding was really something, though for a good stretch it appeared that everything had gone to hell. As our one hundred or so guests arrived, it was pouring rain and we’d made no rain contingency plans for our outdoor wedding. Mr. Sugar realized he forgot his pants sixty miles away, back in the city where we lived, and I realized I forgot the marriage license. My mother-in-law arrived dressed like a sheepherder from Biblical times if sheepherders from Biblical times wore teal and one of my old friends pulled me aside to grill me about why I hadn’t chosen her to be a bridesmaid. I couldn’t find the bobby pins I’d brought to pin my veil to my hair and then once other bobby pins had been purchased, in a mad dash relay effort that involved two local drugstores, I and seven of my girlfriends couldn’t get the god damn veil to stay on my head.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Many of those things seemed calamitous at the time, but they are now among my most treasured memories of that day. If they hadn’t happened, I’d have never run down the street in the rain holding Mr. Sugar’s hand laughing and crying at the same time because I was going to have to marry him in a dingy library basement instead of on the banks of a beautiful river. I’d have never felt the way it feels when everyone you know volunteers to drive at an illegal speed to retrieve a pair of pants and a piece of paper. I’d have never known what a Biblical-times sheepherder might look like in teal, or that important piece of information about my old friend. And I wouldn’t have been so distracted by getting those god damned bobby pins in my hair that I didn’t realize the rain had stopped and Mr. Sugar had discreetly enlisted our guests to carry one hundred white wooden chairs a quarter mile, from the terrible library basement back to the grassy spot on the banks of the beautiful river, where I hoped to marry him in the sunlight and did.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">We all get lost in the minute, but don’t lose this day. Make a list of everything that needs to be seen to and decided and worried about between now and July and then circle the things that matter the most to you and do them right. Delegate or decide on the other stuff and refuse to worry anymore. Let your wedding be a wonder. Let it be one hell of a good time. Let it be what you can’t yet imagine and wouldn’t orchestrate even if you could. Remember why it is you’ve gone to so much trouble that you’ve been driven to anger and aggression and an online advice columnist. You’re getting married, sweet pea! There’s a day in July that’s a shimmering slice of your mysterious destiny. All you’ve got to do is show up.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Yours,</span></i><br />
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a little sneak from saturday's shoot...connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-25589170008125154962011-04-26T22:52:00.001-07:002011-04-26T22:52:33.943-07:00my dentist knows me well<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/04/_MG_9815.jpg"><br />
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Kind of late.. but happy Easter everybody! Jesus lives, what news to rejoice about! All life's troubles and difficulties seem to dim in the light of today's joy. I also love that this season is the season for wild flowers everywhere and anywhere! I'm hoping to visit the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">flower fields</a> in Carlsbad this month before it ends!connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-53323804382153616442011-04-17T01:02:00.000-07:002011-05-14T21:58:06.064-07:00katie + steven, part 2 {menifee,ca}<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/katstev/1.jpg" /><br />
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Instead of a traditional cake, they had bundt cakes from <a href="http://www.nothingbundtcakes.com/">Nothing Bundt Cakes</a>.<br />
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I'm sorry I'm so bad at choosing a smaller number of photos to share...but then again I'm not sorry. Katie is such a drop dead gorgeous bride that it was too hard! (Thanks for asking me to shoot with you <a href="http://lynnchyi.com/">Lynn</a> !) <br />
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I loved that the maid of honor (Katie's older sister) had a dress whose colors were the inverse of the rest of the bridesmaids' dresses.<br />
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Is it weird that I'm really happy Katie's mom wore red nail polish? It just pops out of the photo!<br />
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Isn't she stunning?<br />
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Loved this vintage mirror they had lying around!<br />
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First look:<br />
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Can't wait to show you more! Stay tuned... meanwhile check out <a href="http://lynnchyi.com/steven-and-katie-wedding/">Lynn</a>'s shots of the wedding!connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-84702092772556525142011-04-10T00:49:00.000-07:002011-04-10T00:51:38.878-07:00a big thank you<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/_MG_9664.jpg" /><br />
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It's been such a stressful and busy few months -- transitioning between a bunch of schedules, life seasons and trials, and so so many photos to edit. With that said, I'm so thankful for the opportunity God has given me to photograph such wonderful people and the special love they have for one another (couples and friends alike). I'm really very undeserving. <br />
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So, thank you readers and clients for your graciousness (those waiting for their photos lately!), your individuality and your encouragement. Here's to the rest of 2011 being a fruitful year of growth and beautiful images to document. <br />
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Love,<br />
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I bought my first digital camera when I was 13 years old. I pooled together all the money I saved up from tutoring, babysitting and chinese new year red envelopes. I used to shoot everything in my neighborhood -- flowers, street lights, cars, etc. Flowers were a favorite because I felt like it was something you couldn't mess up -- shooting people was terrifying (and still is at times). Sometimes it's nice just to grab my camera and go around the neighborhood documenting the the beauty there.... no coordinators, no centerpieces, no spectacle.connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-13414609824632772222011-04-04T23:29:00.000-07:002011-04-04T23:33:07.776-07:00lani + chris {engagement}Lani and Chris met online. Chris was extremely nervous but Lani kept her cool. Lani brought two handmade felt birds and told herself that if it went well, she'd give them to Chris...if not, she'd keep them. Let's just say the birds still sit on Chris' dashboard :).<br />
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When Lani first contacted me about an engagement shoot, she was worried because she and Chris are very shy. Even during the shoot they were so nervous still, but they had nothing to worry about right? ;) Honestly, I always feel very awkward when I get my photo taken, so I could definitely understand and tried my best to make the shoot as relaxed and low-key as possible, yet still giving a picture of who they are together. Hopefully we succeeded :).<br />
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Our first stop: South Pasadena library.<br />
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look at this adorable banner/sign lani made... because she was bored the night before. she makes it look so easy:<br />
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The birds Lani made for Chris! <br />
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what a cutie.<br />
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Chris loves the beatles, can you tell? :)<br />
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We also stopped by a really adorable shop called <a href="http://www.shopyolk.com/">Yolk</a>. I know it has nothing really to do with anything, but go check it out!connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-90463782183285885142011-04-01T13:33:00.000-07:002011-04-01T13:33:27.709-07:00katie + steven {sneak peak}<img src="http://www.connielyu.com/photography/files/gimgs/25_mg0251.jpg" />connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-29436173854531706012011-03-31T21:05:00.000-07:002011-03-31T21:07:48.128-07:00sneak peak<img src="http://connielyu.com/blog/2011/03/_MG_9707.jpg" /><br />
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Some behind the scenes/sneak peak of an engagement session I shot in silver lake (also known as land of the hipsters) recently. I know I should just cull my images for blog-worthy ones first, but for some reason I can't bring myself to do so until I've edited them all...connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-4846575608775044922011-03-29T11:10:00.000-07:002011-03-29T13:21:48.870-07:00i get by with a little help from my friendsI love the idea of friendship that makes its indelible mark on people. A while back, Eileen approached me about doing a little shoot for her and her group of friends (3 of which I knew way back when from highschool) in order to celebrate two birthdays in the group. She decided on a picnic, so cute! <br />
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i love that all the girls wore floral prints!<br />
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'staches are good for the soul, i say!<br />
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time for a little gift-giving:<br />
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I'm sure most of you in the blog/design/wedding/etc. world already know about and adore <a href="http://pinterest.com/">pinterest</a>. Like pins that are never redundantly pinned, I don't think it ever gets old to talk about how wonderful this website is! Without it I would've still been in the dark ages of saving hundreds of inspiration images to a folder on my desktop titled "inspiration". While I still do that... it's great to see my favorite images collected together on one beautiful display. <br />
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Via pinterest, today I'm doing this:<br />
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Check out <a href="http://pinterest.com/connielyu/">my pinterest here</a>.connie lyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09566838041101445226noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864075671820462793.post-45214875092319977252011-03-21T18:52:00.000-07:002011-03-21T18:59:31.810-07:00ue new years' partyi must be the worst blogger known to man to be posting this... but here are some photos from UE's new years party! amongst all the other photos i need to edit, this definitely went on the back-burner...and burnt to a crisp. hopefully you still want this piece of toast. now i am not only the worst blogger but analogy-creator as well. <br />
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our note to future self idea was a hit! <br />
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the food was breakfast-themed :)<br />
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my favorite table spread of the night!<br />
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winner of the design challenge:<br />
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yes that is popcorn! that sure fit the "pop" of snap crackle pop!<br />
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the UE team:<br />
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