Engaged in 1920's Italian Villa

Elan & Samuella

PreWedding

A message from the bride

Describe your experience with finding the perfect location for your PreWedding Session: Rene made this process so smooth and stress free for us! Rene listened to our preferences and matched us with the most perfect location.

Rene and his team also provided us with a list of locations to choose from, contact information and pricing, which is such a huge help especially when you are so swamped with wedding planning!

What are your recommendations/tips for couples before/during their PreWedding Session?: Our #1 tip is to relax! We were so nervous to take photos as we haven't had any photo shoot experience. We just did not know what to do or how to act!

Rene made us feel so comfortable, directed us the whole time and we honestly had so much fun doing it! Such a great experience and we can't wait for our Wedding Day session.

What was your favorite part about your session?: Spending the day together looking our best! It also made us feel that much closer to our Wedding day. It really felt real at that moment.

Describe the moment he proposed!: The proposal definitely was a shock/surprise to me. Let me preface this by saying that Elan always said that he would never propose on any Milestone, Birthday, Holiday, etc. We went to Solvang for the weekend to celebrate our 4 year anniversary. He hired a driver (who knew he was going to propose) for the day to take us to different wineries.

The driver even asked us if we were celebrating anything special and I thought to myself, why would Elan not tell the driver that we are celebrating our anniversary, but I just thought to myself "Men". At the 2nd winery we visited (Bridlewood), our driver set up the cutest picnic for us. I got so emotional because the day was just so perfect. I even thought to myself "this would be such a perfect place for a proposal".

And little did I know what was about to happen... Our winery tour guide offered to take a photo us of, we posed for it and then he gets on one knee and asks me to marry him! I was so surprised!!

That moment was seriously such a blur and full of so man emotions. It was literally the most perfect day. Writing about it makes me wish we could do it all over again!

Tell us about your very first date!: We have known each other for years but never were close. We haven't talked for years and reconnected when Elan messaged me on Facebook to see how I've been. He asked me out on a date after months of texting and we went to an Italian restaurant at the Grove.

I was so nervous I almost cancelled! I can say that we definitely had an instant connection. I think we talked for almost 3 hours we barely touched our food. it was really cute. We then probably took 20 laps around the Grove talking because we just didn't want the date to end.

Fun fact: We have not spent 1 weekend apart since our 1st date!

What are you most excited about for your upcoming wedding?: Finally being married and living together!

Credits

PreWedding Session Location: Private Estates in Pasadena

Hair Stylist: Paul David

Makeup Artist: Gabriella J

Wedding Planning: L’amour Events