While my attempts at gardening grow outside (tomatoes, herbs, arugula, green beans, and carrots), I've been looking for easy sumer dishes that will work equally well when the San Diego fog rolls in as when the sun is shining bright and hot outside. Or when my...
On the recent flight home from our engagement session in Portland, Jeff boarded the plane before me to get our luggage in the overhead bins, while I waited behind in the boarding area to get a few extra minutes of charge on my laptop. He took the window seat, and...
My lovely friend and Recipe Sunday assistant, Jenny, comes to my house once every six months to spend two days - an entire weekend - making and photographing ten recipes for the next batch of Recipe Sunday posts here on the blog. It's two days of cooking, shooting,...
Awwwww yes... Easter. The day of chocolate shaped bunnies, deviled eggs, the official launch of the little summer dress, the only day I'll ever wear white gloves, and the end of lent. Oh the end of lent. Ok, so I've rarely observed lent, but I'm slowly hearing the...
Jeff's sweet aunt sent us a truly meaningful Christmas gifts this past holiday season. She sent Jeff two prints - one of his grandmother and one of his grandfather. They are displayed in our living room, enclosed in the cardboard frames that the photo studio...
"If the life you dream of living is one you know you can accomplish, then you need to dream bigger." I don't know where I got this quote or who said it, but I wrote it on the whiteboard in our studio last week after coming home from a trip to Paso Robles. This past...
I grew up in a town surrounded by potato fields, and my dad was a brilliant engineer that did research and development on irrigation systems so our lives were planted in the middle of farm country. Between our farmer neighbors, my dad's test fields, and the local...
For years, I felt like I couldn't just pull up a chair to the dinner table of life. Every time the gourmet meal would be set out to enjoy, and the invitation sent for all to come, sit, and join in on the feast, everyone else strolled up with confidence. Everyone...
When my Recipe Sunday assistant and kitchen-wonder-woman, Jenny, served these simply mouthwatering goat cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon at her house one afternoon, I knew I had found my foodie soulmate. These sinfully delicious bites of creamy goodness mix...
Why do you cook? To remind you of home? To experiment with a new ingredient? To release your creativity? To relax? I've been posting Recipe Sundays for a few years now as a casual thing I do for our bloggy-blog, and even though I've always known that I am probably...
On Friday - on Valentine's Day - Jeff and I received an email from one of our past brides, Jennifer. She has always been a sweetheart along with her now husband, Michael, but this note made my weekend. Maybe my year. The subject read, "Thank You Will Never Be...
Nothing makes me appreciate a warming-from-the-inside-out kind of dish like spending a few days in Indianapolis this past week. Even local Indiana-ites were aghast at the jaw-clenching freezing temperatures this past week. A high of zero degrees? Really? Did they...
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We're Jeff & Erin
It’s our job to help you slow down and experience every moment of your wedding day – because we believe that it should be savored from top to bottom.
We’re Jeff & Erin Youngren, a hubby & wifey wedding photography team that believes timeless trumps trendy, life is best done together, and tears, hugs, & high fives should never be held back. We consider our couples part of our family – and we cannot wait to meet you!