Jeff and I were walking past Union Square in San Francisco the other day and I was checking my Instagram feed only to see a photo of our past bride and groom, Lizzy and Ipp, flying off to Manhattan to live for two months. I blurted out, “I wish we could live in New...
Jeff and I are in San Francisco for two weeks. Why? To dream. Well, and to work our butts off. We're not shooting much in the next few months, so we're taking two weeks during our wedding off-season (January to March) to work on those projects that have taken a...
It was a plate mounded with beans and brown rice, a fried banana, a scoop of what looked like potato salad but turned out to be salt fish, two thin chicken drumsticks, and some sort of fruit that had the consistency of bread and tasted like a crumbly, half-cooked...
I'm not gonna lie - our week in St. Lucia was hot, humid, and exhausting. I haven't sweat through so many t-shirts since working maintenance at summer camp with a group of lumberjacks. Chopping down trees baby. Oh yeah. But all of the heat and long hours while...
Last week we were in St. Lucia with the production team for Do Something World, a non-profit organization that partners with local churches, businesses, and governments around the world to provide sustainable solutions to community issues. Basically, it empowers...
I wrote about my first pair of TOMS shoes a few years ago here on the blog when they were shiny and new (and the polka dots were still purple), but after a few years of taking these things around the world, they've lost just a little bit of their, um, luster. In...
Jeff and I are in San Francisco this week to hang out with some of our amazing couples for their engagement sessions, and being able to spend some time in one of our favorite cities reminds me just how much we love to travel. And since we do our fair share of...
There has been a lot of emotional work happening around here at Casa de Youngren. I've been telling friends that this is the time of year when we get to dig into the very heart of our business and turn it upside down, reconfigure it over and over again, and put it...
In 2009, we celebrated in Venice. In 2010, we were traveling Southeast Asia. This year, we're riding scooters around our neighborhood in San Diego. It never seems to matter where we are or what we're doing. Valentine's Day has always made me fall in love all over...
Well folks, we're back! And we've got the second half of one of the coolest - if not most unique - engagement sessions straight out of the Land Down Under. If you had told me on the flight to Australia that I would not only see about twenty kangaroos on my trip but...
It's walks around the block or flights around the world. It's trying that new Korean restaurant or enjoying the same old tacos at home that you love. It's picking up Thai food from a stall in Bangkok, or grabbing a burger from around the corner. It's driving along...
Does anyone remember when Jeff and I were late to our very own dinner party? That was at our house? With guests we invited? Well folks, I think I’ve officially topped that one. I was actually late to my husband’s birthday party a few weeks ago and I was the one...