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ilona and patrick are getting married next saturday so we wanted to get this post up before then! we met in santa monica and strolled along broadway, ending up near third street. when i say near, i mean not at the obvious “3rd street promenade” because as you know from past blog posts we don’t like to shoot at the conventional locations, and what fun is that anyways! if you ask us to shoot at the pier or santa monica, we go in the alleyways and behind the stores ;). lucky for us, ilona and patrick were amazing models and great sports. they didn’t look us strangely when we stopped in front of what we thought was an abandoned building and then got yelled at by the people who lived there, they took our little posing notes but added their own spice to the photos, and also brought some of their own ideas to the session which we love! we can’t wait for their wedding, only 7 short days away!