Our inspiration for picking up the camera has and always will be our couples. Katrina and I have been fortunate enough to not only have these people accept us to document the most important day of their lives, but also to accept us to be their friends and family. Your stories are our life.

Brandon started his photography career in college when he joined the school newspaper. A passion for capturing real moments and telling the story led him to become the photography editor and win several awards for his coverage within only a year. Shortly afterwards he began shooting weddings with Katrina using this same style. The rest is history.

Winner of the 2010 and 2011 WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Award

Multiple award winning member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association

Award winner of the CCMA

12.15.2010 | engagement 3 Comments

Samantha + Matt

Photographed by Brandon Wong and Katrina Santos. Written by Brandon Wong

During our first meeting with Samantha and Matt I remember asking the young couple what their ultimate goals in life were. They both answered that they simply want to be great parents and spouses. Katrina and I knew immediately from that point on that these were two people that we were going to love to shoot.

Besides meeting two great individuals we also possibly met Taylor Swift’s number one fan. Samantha was inspired by Taylor’s music video “Mine” so we drove an hour and hiked forty minutes into the woods and tied up some of their favorite pictures together on trees. It was a lot of work but in the end it was completely worth it.

Right before it started to pour Samantha and Matt took us out to our new favorite restaurant Cucina Urbana and we topped the night off with some wine and chai lattes at Cafe Bassam. We can’t wait for their vineyard wedding in Temecula.

  • ben: impressive...it must've taken forever to get all those pix up! (12.15.2010 05:01pm)
  • Loling: WOW! Wonderful pictures... Aunt Loling (12.17.2010 06:53am)
  • sarina: You did such an amazing job brandon! :) congratulations sammy and big brotha! <3 (12.17.2010 02:45pm)