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SAY HAAIII!

So you’ve got something huge coming up, and you want to work with us. Tell us your budget, a little bit about your big day, what you want to share about your love story, and holla at yo girl! I’m a little stuck to my phone, so I check my emails hecka regularly, and will get back to you SUPER quick, because, hey, I value your time.

LOCATION

Anaheim, California

PHONE

+1 (626) 589 2368

E-MAIL

anne@sessionsbyannesalas.com

sessionsbyannesalas

SoCal Wedding Photo + Video
Here for all the moments you don’t see 🙌 lover of memes, candids, momma, & sushi. Fave f word: fun. 🤪 #igotchu #🏳️‍🌈

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I haven't shared any of Christie and Nik's more formal romantic photos, but to be honest, whenever I come back to their gallery, I see these and I can't help but share photos that are more quintisentially them: always in some sort of dance, happy, just like the day they met...

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"At times confusing, hopefully amusing...Introducing me!" HAI. HELLO. It me, Anne. Hollaaa to all my future coming 2020 couples - maybe you haven't seen my face yet, so here it is, right in your face. I'd tell you guys what everyone else says, that they're different, but honestly, am I really? I try to be funny, am sarcastic, like my memes, and am a die hard sushi and chocolate and donuts fan...like everyone else, right?? Okay, so maybe I'm a little extra - extra in that I'll be out here, askin y'all to drunk dance in front of me (IT LOOKS GOOD, I PROMISE), because that's just how I "unpose" for photos. Like everyone else, I deal with stuff, like your run of the mill anxiety attacks and "I wanna quit" days...but every. time. one of my couples will come along, and I'll find myself in stitches because we can't stop laughing...and I'm back to that, "Dang, okay, my job is pretty awesome." Das it. Das da tea. Till next time!

Shot by my one and only nene @lexandthelotus

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Madness...love is merely a madness. It’s every paradox that ever existed; it’s the peaceful warring of emotions brewing inside, the incredible breathtaking pain that somehow heals...it’s a lunacy we’re all victim of, but yet...it’s in love that we find the most clarity.

A wedding day is evidence of this. I assure you, the madness will come. But, dear reader, it’s my sincerest wish that you find yourself in the loudest moment of your life: that quiet moment of awe, as you stare at the eyes of your beloved, and hold familiar hands now adorned with new metal. May they shut close, as you lean in together, uninterrupted, and inhale in your first breathe of Finally....

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I’m of the belief that lips are not where the intimacy resides the most. It’s not the meeting of eyes, nor is it bodies doing the age old dance of time...intimacy resides in someone’s hands. They’re a language in and of itself - pressed against each other, you’re suddenly aware of every thought never said out loud, and it’s there. There, in that adjunct silence, would lie a kind of intimacy that heals wounds lips know nothing of...

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It’s world photography day...how apt. I often forget to show a wedding day in these fragments - these microcosms of emotion that aren't the altar ceremony photos, aren't the flora, nor are they posed, epic portraits. They're the abridged stories of the people you've always known were going to be at your wedding before you even found your other half. Strange, because it's only in hindsight that we ever cherish them...

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San Diego...it has been a minute. I went back last Monday in the heart of it for this first time in years, and I couldn’t imagine coming back to this special city with anyone else but these two, who 200% nailed their engagement sesh, serving LOOKS, and honestly reminded me that engagement sessions that extend into the night are just as epic if you spend it with epic people 🙌

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I want you all to go to my Instagram stories right now and check out the BTS of this donkey photo. GO. RUN. 😂😂😂
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In all seriousness, there will never be enough stars to thank for all my couples. Like these two, who walked out of Princess Bride. 😭 Who showed me that relaxed is a vibe that is 100% possible on your wedding day, that you don’t have to run and get there...just be present and be there. 💛

Venue: @olehansonbeachclub
Coordinator: @weddingsbysh
Catering/Bar: @24carrotscatering
Photographer: @sessionsbyannesalas
DJ: Obi wan @voxdjs
Dress: @casablanca_bridal_flagship
Hair: @hairbyjustine_
Hair Accessories: @bhldn
Makeup: @foxyfacesbyjen
Shoes: @katespadeny
Rentals: @sundrop_vintage
Cake: @graceandhoneycakes
Officiant: @m.e.r.c.e.d.e.s.b.e.n.d.s

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Anatomy of a wedding day: Many moving parts that eventually lead to the zenith that is this: two fighters who finally find themselves in a quiet moment of Us, atop the mountain they moved, because in all the dark days of journey, it’s not the sun they set to see, but instead, all the bright rays of each other...
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@WishUponAWedding
@dd_rom
Planning & Coordination: @magicalmoments_bymegan
Venue: @fetethevenue
Catering: @aboveallcatering
Personal Florals & Centerpieces: @poppyandrosefloralco
Ceremony Decor Florals: @english_garden_lb
Beauty: @diamondbeautyhairandmakeup
Gown: @panachecostamesa
Gown Alternations: @doortodoorcleaners
Men’s Attire: @thecreatedgentleman
Officiant: @greatofficiants
Photography: @Sessionsbyannesalas
Videography: @christiansamsonstudios
Stationery: @inktopiary
Outdoor Rentals: @sundrop_vintage
Live Ceremony Musician: @twotownsent
Live Event Painter: @reneeortizstudios
Photo Booth: @californiaboothbus
Bar Cart & Mocktails: @thetypsygypsybar
Reception DJ & MC: @djwrex
Specialty Linens: @bbjlinen
Tabletop Rentals & Linen: @brighteventrentals
Flower Wall: @XXLFlowers
Photobooth: @socialscenesphotobooth
Cake: @sweetestperfectioncakes
Dessert Bar: @samsammcustomcakes
Mobile Coffee Station: @jedidahcoffee
Favors: @ockoshe

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Candids: a study in the clarity of faces. Unhinged and unbothered...often tiny, but loud bursts of emotion - often encased in small bubbles of familiarity and intimacy. They’re fragile and fleeting - which is why quick feet and open eyes are equipped to catch them before they burst. They’re the mothers toasting to new children, the curious gaze of a child, the laughter of old friends, the laughter of new ones, the dark cornered embraces, and tears - all often exist in seconds, but somehow, endure....

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Ok, so you’ve seen champagne pops. BUT. Have you seen champagne pops waist deep in the ocean?! Champagne pops that happen when the tide rushes the hell out of nowhere and makes for an epic photo?!?! Rob and Trina were friggin TROOPEERS!!! NAILED IT

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved....between the shadow and the soul.” -Neruda

My heart is full. There’s a lump in my throat. I often was speechless yesterday because I couldn’t believe the life happening in front of my eyes...despite everything. Yesterday, an amazing team of wish granters gave Danielle and Brandon something they deserve, a million lifetimes over - a wedding of their own, while Danielle battles metastatic stage IV breast cancer. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so strong...so loved, so cherished. There is so much life in her, from the bursts of energy when she danced on the floor with her man of honor, or to the times when she’d grab onto Brandon’s hand, sat, and look at him like he was the moon.

If you’d like to help Danielle out, you can send her a wedding gift in the form of cash - cancer is expensive, and trying to live a day more costs so much money and thoughts and prayers can only go so far.

If you’d also like to donate money to an organization, let me open your eyes to METAvivor - an org that ACTUALLY sheds light to the side of breast cancer that isn’t all about the pink ribbons, the side of breast cancer that kills. #thinkbeforeyoupink

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“I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you...dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.” Currently, I have none but borrowed words. Tomorrow is Danielle and Brandon’s day and it is my life’s mission to make it the best of theirs. @wishuponawedding @dd__rom @magicalmoments_bymegan

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I’m in love with all the things in between. The little crevices and cracks, the simple touches and gestures that show me intimate love languages...some you can see clearly in other places besides someone’s lips. Like their hands, and where they go, the small leans of trust, things that, even out of focus, will matter so much in the end....

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A lil life update: drowning in edits (I’m working on everyone’s photos still, promise!), and unpacking into our new home. I have SO. MANY. COUPLES. To show off to you guys. Couples who, like Laura and David, trusted me enough to stay in the deserted parking lot in the dark to do cool stuff, like make dust magic out of their car’s head lights 🤪 and pop champagne in the dark!!! So excited for their LEAP DAY WEDDING!!!!!

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I will 200% take any opportunity I can get to get weird and funky, with a side of grateful, because I have amazing couples who are down to be weird and funky with me, too. 😭😭😭😭

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Today I’m back in LA for Stephanie and Bryant’s wedding celebration, a couple months after the engagement session that made me love this city jungle all over again. The light here is like nothing else - it’s directional and intentional...fit for dreamers and artists and the weird ones who like the spaces in between. I can’t wait to fall in love with this city all over again!!

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OKAY now that IG is back to normal, let me tell y’all about a lil something: “Okay, Jerian, I want ya to look out there, and give me sexy, smize...serious.”
*Jerian drops look*
*Anne drops dead* cause DAMNNNNN! These two BROUGHT IT. Despite the winding drive and critters, these two nailed it to the wall!! Also had so much fun and had pretty good Mexican food after 😍😭😍😭😍😭😍 how am I lucky with my couples?!

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When you shoot weddings straight out of movies 😍 SO. BLESSED. With all the couples that come through my life!! These two are no exception. I should be pampering them but I feel so pampered by these two 😂 Judy, who made sure I had coffee and donuts before our LA adventure sesh, and AJ who had our backs in the sketch areas of DTLA...flash forward to their wedding day when, on their own day, asked our team if we had a chance to eat and trusted us fully 😭😭😭

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This is how I feel about JUDY AND AJ GETTING HITCHED TODAYYYYY WOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to see these two finally do The One Where They Said Hell Yes 🤪

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When Christie first slid into my DMs (hahahah), she told me that she and Nik met during their ballroom social at Tufts. I told her that their love story was something straight out of Shall We Dance....and oh my gosh, it was even better. Whenever I looked at them, in my mind, everything spun in slow motion, the music, blaring, the emotions, high. There wasn’t a single person in that room that wasn’t rooting for these two, and, while watching it all, that love and support reverberating in that room alone was everything I wanted my wedding to be.
Wedding Coordination: @KlinkEvents
Catering: @sundriedtomatobistro
Bar: @cocktailconcierage
Venue: @serraplaza
Photography: @sessionsbyannesalas
Videography: @christiansamsonstudios
HMUA: @gennamuah
Bakery: @vansbakerybrookhurst
DJ: @voxdjs
Florals: @jasmineroseweddings
Beauty: @gennamuah
Rentals: @bakerparty

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I wish you could hear these photos. Because if you can, you’d hear the chorus of laughter accompanied by tears, the crunch of bare feet on grass, a litany of excited animals, the “Grandma, you made it!”, the finallys, the we’re heres, and the rush of the entire troop of people who’ve been standing behind these two from a thousand miles away in Uganda to the sunny side of a mountain in California. I often tell people I witness the very best of humanity on wedding days, and there was no better example than this: two people who devoted their lives to others in service, dedicating just one day to each other...

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Lets. Talk. Steam. Also, let’s talk Rex and Amanda because holy hell, they were noooot afraid to show me just how much they love each other 🤪😂 soooo happy and thankful for couples who aren’t afraid to get dirty during their adventure engagement sessions!

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When all it took for Natasha to calm down a Bruce Banner she hardly recognized were words of a sun getting real low and her touch...it resonated within Sheena and Joseph. So it was only apropos that, in the middle of the chaos of their reception, they stole away to find that peace, too. They’d told me snippets of how deployment was hard...how distance was hard. How it killed to miss first times and date nights, and how, in the chaos of everything, it was easy to lose sight of things. But if there was anything healing at all, he found it in the cradle of her arms - in the constant that was her, and how her heartbeat and her presence heal him and make it seem to all go away.... Thank you, both of you, for sacrificing those first times and date nights, for uprooting your life to give us our own of freedom and normalcy many of us take for granted. Happy Memorial Day to all of our servicemen and women, and the families who give up so many things alongside them, too 💛

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It’s THUNDERSTORMING TODAY!! WOO HOOOO! If you’ve ever wondered what storm clouds look like while they roll in on a SoCal sunset, well....😍😍😍

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I’m extremely crinkled-nose-what-the-hell-WHYYYY today because it stopped effing raining. I love storm clouds and I love rain😭😭😭 so imma throw it back to that time when that legendary SoCal light was showing off while storm clouds started to roll in a couple weeks ago 😍

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I honestly become slave to these incalculable seconds of “All my loved ones are in one place” that, every time I send photos over, I hope I bottled it tightly enough for the two people in love who believed in each other and believed in me...

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Sometimes I see myself in my couples. Like, when Ervant and Crystal almost fell over, I thought, 10/10 would happen to me in a heartbeat even without a fiancé to save me💀😂😂 love these two and their cat and can’t wait for their weddiiiiiiiiing this fall!!!

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We caught Joshua Tree on SUUUUCH killer weather. This was just an hour or so right before the storm clouds rolled in. The light (and these two) was so freaking insanely awesome that I kept making sex noises the entire time because mama COULD NOT EVEN🤪😂😂😂 jk hahaha

Can’t wait to share more of this and SO much more new stuff coming your way!! Coordination & Design | @MagicalMoments_byMegan
Floral & Design | @PoppyandRoseFloralCo
Photography | @SessionsbyAnneSalas
Cinematography | @RichTricFilms
Men’s Suits/Ties/Shoes | @FriarTux
Wedding Dress | @CasablancaBridal, @Casablanca_Bridal_Flagship
Musician & Officiant | @TwoTownsEnt, @JayShapiroSD
Cake/Mini Cupcakes | @SweetestPerfectionCakes
Graphic Design/Invitations | @InkTopiary
Wedding Favors/Bulk Toffee | @BToffee
Calligraphy/Acrylic Signs | @TheTipsyCricket
Rentals/Tabletop | @Sundrop_Vintage
Rentals/Tabletop | @SignaturePartyRentals
Linen | @Luxe_Linen
Sign Holders/Tables | @RadWeldCustoms
Hair | @TiffanyBlueSalon
Make-Up | @MakeupbyDeeGee
Models | @plumms, @carl0aq, @gayzeus_, @_tomm.p_

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During Nicole and Paulo’s adventure sesh, I asked Nicole for three reasons why she said yes. The wind stilled after hurtling so hard for the past hour.... and while she murmured, “He picks me up after work,” tears started streaming down her face. I’m forever in awe of the kind of love and emotion couples let me into and the walls they break down while with me...

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My mom is the picture of ultimate sacrifice. She will do anything for her children - keep them safe from flooded roofs, defend them against volatile people, raise them on love and strength, roll with the punches of having - at times - difficult children and difficult situations, and, in less intense situations, wake up at ungodly hour at freezing temperatures during your first vacation in years to appease her daughter so they can finally, finally take a nice photo. If you are her daughter, on weekends, you’ll wake up with food on the table, hot coffee, fresh air blasting through open windows, and, depending on her mood, country or Hispanic dance music blasting on the speakers while she dances to the beat in the kitchen. If you are her daughter, and you’re going through tough times, she’ll hold your hand but tell you to sit with your back straight and dig deep for the strength she taught you. If you are her daughter, she’ll still opt for huggies and kisses even if you’re grown, because sometimes, all you need is her vice grip arms around you and the smell of your mama. I’m admittedly a difficult daughter to have, but I’m thankful you never turn your back on me. I love you, Ma 💛 and I’ll work hard to show you every day is your day.

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Last Sunday, I felt like I was that song. That song that sang about desert roads and unending highways and wind blown back hair...that sang of skinned knees and winded breaths and scuffed up boots and wrong left turns. I haven’t felt alive in ages - but when the sun peeked from under the storm clouds and burned golden on the black sand, a tired, disrepaired version of myself stood up and embraced myself, and took a step back to let it burn golden on me, too....

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Culture is so important to me. I leave behind so much in the Philippines and I love it when I see my couples take pieces of who they are and where they come from into the most important day of their lives. Jerry and Teresa rushed to change into their respective traditional attire to begin their Tea Ceremony at Twilight - one of the biggest ways couples show respect and gratitude to their parents for allllll the years of caring for them, unconditionally. They’re given advice, a gift, and so much affection. Not a dry eye in the room 😭😭😭 Venue: @777lagunabeach
Caterer: @topcatering
Videographer: @christiansamsonstudios
DJ/MC: Platinum Peaks
Cake: @777lagunabeach
Florist: Victoria Flowers
Hair: @fairytalehairandmakeup
Makeup: @corkydutch
Calligrapher: @woodlandcustomdesigns
Invitations: @minted
Dress: @stellayork
Accessories: @badgleymischka @vans @clae, @periodcorrect @stancesocks @cufflinksinc
Photobooth: @viralboothoc