We first met Rachael through church. When we found out she is looking to pursue music as a career, we were ecstatic. Not only does she have one of the most mesmerizing voices, her heart behind her music is something to be admired. We brought up the idea of doing a video/photoshoot in the middle of a desert, and without hesitancy, Rachael was on board with the idea. So the adventure begins!

We stayed at a B&B/retreat center called Desert Harbor. It’s a beautiful, single casita retreat located in the middle of the Sandia Mountains. Raymond, the owner of Desert Harbor was super kind in allowing us to use his property for the video and photoshoot.

We’ve never done a music video before. We’ve never videographed and sound recorded with an iPhone for professional production before either! But we wanted to push our creative boundaries in creating this music video.

Rachael’s inspiration for the song came from a news article she was reading about the sad things that are happening in Syria. One in particular was about the children in Syria. A journalist had noted that the children weren’t crying anymore. Not out of optimism, but rather apathy. After reading about that, Rachael wrote this song.

We hope you enjoy this video. The lyrics to the song is located at the end of this blog post.

Lyrics:
One white bird sitting at my feet
He’s silent hes silent
All the time it seems
This land it has been withering
My frail hands my frail hands
On rotting trees

But oh may your peace flow
Through the dark tunnels
Of my soul again

The little ones don’t cry no more
They’re numb to their own pain
What have we done?

They look into their mother’s eyes
For answers, for something
They cannot not find

But oh may your peace flow
Through the dark rubble they called home

If you would like to follow along in Rachael’s music journey, I highly encourage you to check out her Soundcloud.

We’ve only met with Colleen + Dominic once over video chat prior to finally meeting them in person. When we all met up in California, it felt like we had been long lost friends! Crazy thing was, when we video chatted with them online, they were in Illinois, we were in Colorado, and we finally met in person in California! Thank you internet for making it so easy to connect from states away! (Despite some occasional wifi problems, hah!)

We decided to photograph at Point Reyes because Dom works in San Francisco, and it’s an easy 1 hour drive to get there. It was a location neither of them had been to, and it was the perfect adventure! We had the perfect weather (after it’s been raining for 6 weeks straight!), everything was green and lush, and spring was already well on it’s way, everything was blooming!

During their engagement shoot (we like to call them adventure session), Colleen + Dominic graced us with an acoustic duet at the North Beach of Point Reyes (Video at the end of this post). Their duet was angelic! The way Dominic strums the guitar, and Colleen’s voice and body language, and the way their voices blended together was breathtaking. It was as if we were watching them dance around each other during the entire the duet.

After the shoot, we got to all hang out and have dinner together at Cafe Reyes for some amazing thin crust wood fire pizza. It was the first time for all of us trying anchovies pizza. We each wouldn’t have gotten anchovies on our pizza by ourselves, but since we had a few people to help take on the challenge, we did it! We concluded that it tasted fine, but it’s probably not something we would get on our pizzas again! The experience was well worth the food adventure! We all got to try a few different flavors too! We are so glad know that we and Colleen + Dom all share the same passion for good food! (That’s the secret sauce for a great marriage and long lasting friendship y’all!)

Colleen + Dom are some of the sweetest people (seriously!), and we cannot wait to be photographing their wedding!

The entire day was incredibly SWEET! Denise + Levi are the sweetest people, and it was no surprise that their community that came and celebrated with them are equally sweet! Not to mention, Denise and Levi are incredibly talented chocolatiers… they hand-made a variety of truffles just for their wedding guests, which were beautiful on the outside and delightful on the inside! Sweetness flowed throughout their wedding day, in more ways than their love, their guests, their venue, and their chocolates. Check it out for yourself and be sure to lick those lips!