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Megan described the first time they met, how much she liked Ryan and how without giving him her number or email within a few hours of their leaving one another, Ryan texted her to check her email. In her in-box she found Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1846 poem opening with - Give all to love;  Obey thy heart….

Megan says she just knew, at that moment and that the knowing was relaxed. Nothing dramatic about it. She never felt a moment of anxiety or uncertainty. Just an easy willingness to give all to love. And to have Ryan be the recipient. Beautiful. You can see it in her eyes in this first image. Just Beautiful. I’m so honored to have been witness to your love and your story, Megan and Ryan. Thank you!

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Enough about me! Enjoy Megan and Ryan’s Wedding Ceremony. Reception and Dancing to follow.

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I’ll start with what they have to say about falling in love with each other -

From Megan - I spotted a tall, handsome man across the room the night before Fuji and Jo Ben’s wedding; when I told Denton I thought Ryan was cute, he made a beeline over to my future husband to tell him he was in.  Over the course of the weekend, I slowly came to understand that he was more than just tall and handsome- he was also smart, funny, and interesting.  I lured him to stay in LA for another day, and our story truly began.

From Ryan - Somewhere on the long straight stretch between Venice High School and a curiously named auto-body shop, I realized I was falling for her. Though she was driving us eastward, with the windows down I could still smell the ocean on the sun-drenched Sunday morning air.

She was speaking of Massachusetts and France, of Cotton Mather and Edith Wharton, of Janis Joplin being the inspiration for Janice in the Electric Mayhem, something about a night spent talking with Ben Harper in a bar. “I used to live down there,” she seemed to say every few miles, until I lost track. Her hair, I kept thinking. Her eyes.

A few hours later we were sharing a Black and White milkshake as I silently planned my next trip back from Houston to LA.

The Persian poet Hāfez once wrote, “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”

That autumn morning, and every morning since, we have been lucky enough to find each other.

Enjoy!

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Megan and Ryan’s gorgeous white-sand-beach-palm-tree-Caribbean-sunset wedding was Saturday and exceeded everyone’s expectations for perfect. I’ll share the photos in the next few days and you’ll see what I mean.

What I want to share about now is THE shot I didn’t get. I think maybe I’m not suppose to share about what I missed and when you see the photos you’ll see for yourself that their wedding day experience was brilliantly and beautifully captured. So why is it that with hundreds of gorgeous wedding photos I’m stuck on “the one that got away”? Martha Graham seems to have nailed it when she said this – No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

I have no idea if “the shot that got away” would even have been worth sharing AND I trust the perfection of never being completely satisfied, instead always a divine dissatisfaction that keeps me striving, creating, expanding and giving more & more of myself. I invite you to take on your own version of dissatisfaction as a sweet personal call to action, your own personal “what more can I create/give/try?” and embrace it as a gift from your internal cheer squad, not the rah-rah team that wants you to always think you are a winner but the cheer leaders who are constantly calling you into the greatest version of yourself and never letting you rest on your laurels. That part of yourself is truthfully on your side.

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One of my favorite traditions of the Jewish Tradition is the opportunity for young teens (13 for boys and 12 for girls) to go through a formal Rite of Passage into adulthood. Not only is it an opportunity to have a huge rockin’ party, it is also an opportunity for these young people to stand up in front of their community and share a part of themselves. I can’t imagine going through the process without having to face some fears and growing into a maturer version of yourself.

This past weekend, we had the privilege of capturing Ezra Burk on the morning of his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Sinai in Oakland and in his letting loose with friends and family late into the night at Montclair Women’s Cultural Center. SO awesome working with this family. ENJOY!

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