Tag Archives: Weddings

Vintage Wedding Photography {Photo Booth}

Life with The Hot Dreadman {aka my man}. This past weekend, Dreads and I took a meditative long drive up the coast to visit our favorite Berkeley, CA crew. Our friends, Jaime + Jordan, shared their vows in an intimate garden wedding which struck such a chord with all of us, leaving me laughing through...

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The Knotty Bride, Backyard Vintage Wedding, Ryan Gosling!

Truth be told — getting published on the top wedding blog, The Knotty Bride, is pretty much bizbomb. Having a Ryan Gosling music video as its soundtrack? Priceless. Peeps, this is a must watch. Go. Run. Swoon. {see A+G  and  the hotness that is Gosling} Go here. CURIOUS ABOUT SHOOTING? Engaged? Getting married? Obsessed with all...

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Annie Hall Inspiration: Fashion Photography

“It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” ~Unknown~ Meet Latoya Hawthorne, the Jamaican model I’m proud to now call my new friend. Represented by Otto models out of Newport Beach, expect great things from this woman. Having overcome tremendous adversity in her life, Latti, as she is known to many, lives...

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Vintage Beach Engagement Photos {Ellen + David}

“You give me Love, Love, Love” ~ Michael Buble ~ It’s almost HERE! I cannot wait to photograph the wedding of Ellen + David, at the fabulous Stone Manor Estate in Malibu! WHOO-HOO! WEDDING  SNEAK PEEK  COMING SOON … ________________________________________________________________________________ All Photographs Copyright Photographer Karen Christensen at The Legacy Boutique in Los Angeles. Karen is...

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Destination Wedding Photography {Cabo, Mexico}

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin, Journilist and Author ~ Such a marriage would be easy if your life partner was Jodi or Mike. Lucky for the newly wedded couple, they’d be hard pressed not to find something to fall in love with these days....

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Vintage Wedding Photography {Alison+Gabe {Part 1}

“On my Lovin’ you can rely.” ~John Legend~ Alison and Gabe’s Vintage Garden Wedding, featuring La Jolla’s Estancia Hotel & Spa, will no doubt give mad inspiration to all recently engaged brides {including yours truly!} So, ladies, grab a pen and let’s take notes on all these scrumptious details … beginning with her dress and...

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Ellen + David (Stone Manor Part 3}

“Let’s get this party started!” The Stone Manor Estate in Malibu is beautiful by day and gorgeous by sunset. Everywhere you turn there’s something picturesque  before you, with Ellen & David taking center stage.   Photographer and Women’s Motivational Speaker Karen Christensen, Owner of The Legacy Boutique in Los Angeles, is commissioned to shoot Weddings, Heirloom Maternity/Newborn Portraiture,...

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Taylor + Craig {Engagement}

“You Should Be In Pictures!” Musician {Craig Lyons} hearts Actress {Taylor Clearman}. Photographer and Women’s Motivational Speaker Karen Christensen, Owner of The Legacy Boutique in Los Angeles, is commissioned to shoot Weddings, Heirloom Maternity/Newborn Portraiture, Boudoir, Headshots, and Commercial Clients throughout California, the United States, and Internationally. To Book Your Engagement, Wedding, Maternity, Baby, Boudoir, Trash the Dress, Anniversary, Headshot, Commercial Photography session — or to ask Karen to...

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Creative Visions {xo Moms Julia Roberts}

“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.” ~Robert Brault~ PLEASE WAIT FOR VIDEO TO LOAD or RELOAD PAGE. {Watch, Comment, and Repost to Save a Life.} In honor of mothers everywhere, yours and mine, on...

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HerFuture ~ingTERVIEW {self-care & truth}

“When you know better, you do better.” ~Oprah~ Graphic by Studio AKT.com So grateful to Macha Einbender for inviting me back for a second ~ingTERVIEW. Listen to it on Gabrielle Bernstein’s highly trafficked site HerFuture.com. I can’t think of a better way to kick off an afternoon than to cozy up with a cup of coffee,...

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E+D {Sneak Peek Stone Manor Wedding}

“Love is in the air Everywhere I look around Love is in the air Every sight and every sound.” ~ Song lyric from “Love is in the Air” by John Paul   Fall in love today. Let Ellen and David show you how. WEDDING   HIGHLIGHTS from the Stone Manor celebration of Ellen + David...

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Vintage Picnic Engagement Photos {Alison + Gabe}

“To Know You is To Love You.” ~ Lyric by Robert Allen ~ I hate to brag, but I got the best job in town. Sorry, kids, but it’s true. With Engagement sessions like this one of Alison & Gabe, what’s not to love!?!?! Believe it or not there are dozens and dozens of delicious shots...

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Picnic Engagement {Sneak Peek Alison + Gabe}

“Love was made for me and you.” ~ Frank Sinatra, L-O-V-E  song lyric ~ I have to admit, I am SWOONING over Alison and Gabriel’s romantic picnic engagement session. Flying into San Jose, I could not wait to shoot their sunset session at Vasona Park and Los Gatos Creek. From the moment I saw their trunk...

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HerFuture ~ingTERVIEW {Photographer Karen Christensen}

“Always and in Everything let there be reverence.” ~ Confucious Quotes ~ I am all abuzz with ideas and reflections, thanks to a chance meeting with Motivational Speaker Gabrielle Bernstein, which landed me the opportunity to be ~ingTERVIEWED this morning for HerFuture.com {listen below}. I have to give a huge THANK YOU to Spiritual Makeover Artist...

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HerFuture “Blogs We Dig” & ~ingTERVIEW

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” ~Meister Eckhart~ Anyone who knows me personally, or knows the philanthropic passion that drives my photography work here at The Legacy Boutique, likely also knows how I’ve fallen madly in love with the top women’s website HerFuture.com. Founded by...

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