Our engagement photos CD arrived last week, and I was SO excited. I have to give Sarah props for her presentation skills. The CD arrived in a cool metal case, and the CD itself has our names and one of our photos on the label. But I suppose I shouldn’t have expected anything less from the fabulous Sarah K Chen. Our photos were taken back on September 10, but it was super hard to narrow down our selections, so we (okay, more me than we) wasted about a week agonizing over which ones to choose.

We took our photos in old town Pasadena, starting at City Hall and then winding our way through old town to Central Park, past some of the storefronts, and ending on the old bridge. Isn’t the light in this photo insane?

One of my favorites. So soft and sweet.

This is one of the ones I’m using for the save-the-date cards. I love how this captures us being natural with each other. I know I make that exact face in almost that exact pose at least once every time we’re together.

City Hall in Pasadena is gorgeous.

Sarah spotted an awesome spot where we got some of our best photos of the day. I have a feeling this will end up in the header for our wedsite. (Still not done… I need to get on that.)

Another one for the save-the-dates. Josh’s eyes look unbelievably blue in this photo. Yes, I’m marrying the cutest boy ever.

We changed clothes at Central Park and took quite a few photos there. The light was classic Southern California — it’s different than anywhere else in a way I can’t quite put into words.

I was really hoping we’d get a good photo of us standing in front of the fire department doors, and we did. Again, cutest boy. Ever.

Then we made a mad dash through the rest of old town to get to the bridge before the sun went down altogether. The bridge is sentimental for Josh and it was important to us to get a few photos there. One of my friends described this as us “looking into the future together,” and I think that really captures it.

Thank you, Sarah, for gracing us with some of your amazing talent! I feel so fortunate to have worked with you!