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I'm Michelle, a portrait and wedding photographer in Huntington Beach, California. Loving living in the beautiful OC that is filled with so many colorful, fun places to create gorgeous memories! I love that I get the opportunity to make people feel and look beautiful through my photography. I hope you enjoy my work! Please contact me at michelle@momentsbymichelle.com to inqure about portrait or wedding rates. Look foward to hearing from you!



Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Miller Family

So I'm finally getting around to posting some of the cute family portraits I was able to shoot for the holidays... The Miller family has been such great friends to us for so long, it was so great to be able to shoot some super cute holiday portraits for them. Betsy (mom) has such great style! I love their outfits and I love how their portraits turned out...

Ruby always steals the show, she is so fun to shoot... And Gus looks like a little GAP model...
Here is their Christmas card Front...
And Back...
This was printed on double-sided sparkly Pearl paper and turned out so beautiful!
Hope you had a Merry Christmas Miller Family!

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Kumar Cousins!

Meet the cutest little kids ever... 4 kids under 3 was a little challenge! But I think we pulled it off! They are such beautiful kids, it's not hard to make them look good...

Devan is the oldest at 3 years old. I love his eyes...like I said beautiful...

His little sister Saige looks just like her mommy...


These little boys mommy is the beautiful indian bride on my blog header. That was one of my favorite weddings of all time. I'm so happy to now have the opportunity to shoot Shareena and Sagar's little ones...

Meet Kyan who is almost 2...
And his sweet little brother Maddex...
I love this portrait of the baby cousins together. How fun to have such a close family to grow up with!
I'm sure these little guys have alot of fun getting into trouble together...

Have a Happy Thanksgiving Kumar family! Can't wait to see what we come up with for your holiday cards!

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Lewis Family

The Lewis family and I had so much fun shooting at the fun zone! You might recognize Kelly from her famous OC website Just Spotted . She's super creative and has so many great ideas. I just love the colors she chose for their outfits! The kids had so much energy! It was a great day!

This shot was the dad Jeff's idea. This is how he really felt about taking family portraits... I thought it was hilarous!

Owen and Gavin are so adorable! I love that Gavin wanted to wear his green tie. And then there is super sweet Charlie...


Can't wait to see what your holiday cards look like! Thanks Lewis Family for such a fun shoot! And the BJ's pizza! (=

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year... Almost!

Just a little sneak peak of my little dancing queen in her new Holiday dress! We are trying to be early instead of late this year on Holiday cards...


Can't wait for the Holidays to arrive!

The Cruz Family

I love this family! It was so fun to get together and finally meet their newest little addition!


I shot Vanessa and Kenny's wedding a couple years ago.... Gorgeous then and gorgeous now...
Wonderful big brother...
Sweet little Llayton...

And the newest Cruz...
And his little sandy toes...
Mom and her boys...

Wishing you happy holidays this year Cruz Family! It was great to see you again!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Amanda and Michael's Wedding

In August I shot this beautiful intimate wedding coordinated by Kathy Jo Peterson at the Ritz Carlton. It was such a sweet wedding bringing together a new cute little family. I loved the beautiful flowers and details by Fantasy Floral and the cute little flower girl dresses with their little bloomers hanging out. Every detail was perfect!
Amanda was the perfect bride. She was stunning...



Love love the bloomers!

The flower girls wand...








The sweet new family...









Cake stand by Raise the Cake!


Congratulations Michael and Amanda and your new cute little family!