Now that i've been to Poland I want to share with you the Why.

1. My cousins invited me, so to be with family

2. To see amazing architecture

3. To go to the Gdansk Zoo and have special photo shoots with a hippo and Meerkats

4. To eat Pierogi

5. To go to beautiful parks with huge hedges and gorgeous trees.

6. To see Stork nests with Stork babies at the top of electric poles

7. To see gorgeous Cathedrals with huge pipe organs

8. To see the WW2 museum

9. To see huge amounts of Amber

10. For much humor

11. For Gosia's yummy soups 

12. To find out how much I love Birch trees, For some reason they make me smile!

13. To go to Malbork Castle and hold an Owl

14. To have beautiful delicious fruity drinks

15. To go on hikes in the beautiful forests

16. To thick drinking chocolate in a very fancy chocolate cafe

17. To see the place where the first bomb hit in WW2 Gdansk, Poland

18. To see a Cat Show

19. Riding on a train

20. Seeing the longest table made from one piece of wood.

21. To enjoy flowers blooming everywhere for the Summer

22.To watch Poland play football in the World Cup with wonderful Polish people!

There was so much to enjoy and I took photos with my iPhone to share with everyone. Enjoy the slideshow and see if Poland is a place you would like to visit.

I HAD THE HONOR OF SHOOTING THE WEDDING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER.  SHE WANTED TO LOOK LIKE A MERMAID SO SHE STRETCHED OUT ON THIS LOG. AS SOON AS SHE WAS POSED SOME ONE FROM THE BEACH YELLED OUT "YOU LOOK LIKE A MERMAID!" IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE PERFECT!

THEIR WEDDING WAS A SURPRISE! THEY TOLD THEIR FAMILY THE MORNING OF THIS DESTINATION, ELOPEMENT WEDDING. THEY WERE ALL VERY EXCITED AND HAPPY! THEY WERE A FUN AND LOVING FAMILY TO PLAY WITH. IT IS SUCH A JOY TO BE A PART OF THESE KINDS OF MEMORIES.

       FAMILY

SHE WANTED FAMILY PHOTOS AND THEIRS WERE SO SWEET WITH THEIR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. SHE WANTED TO PLAY IN THE SAND AND THEY LET HER.

SHE WANTED ROMANTIC PHOTOS. THEY GOT A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET. WHEN CHRISTINE SAID " I PRONOUNCE YOU HUSBAND AND WIFE "THEY HAD THE MOST PASSIONATE KISS I HAVE EVER SEEN. THEIR LOVE IS VERY APPARENT. FINALLY MARRIED AFTER 10 YEARS. SHE SAID WE JUST CAN'T WAIT ONE MORE MINUTE!

AND FINALLY SHE WANTED TO GET A LITTLE WET AND SHE GOT A FUN PHOTO BOMB! YEA!! I LOVE A GOOD PHOTO BOMB!!

IT WAS A GREAT EVENING FULL OF SPECIAL MOMENTS!

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MAHALO! BONITA

When the couple arrived and Christine Kube of Kauai Wedding Blessings and I were getting to know them, we found out that they took a jewelry class and made their own wedding bands. It took them all day. They did a great job even though it was hard. What a great way to put your love and energy into a marriage!

What a pleasure it was to be a part of their special day! They were so much fun! Because they got married so far from home it was just the two of them here for the wedding. The parents of the Bride and Groom sent Christine some words to read during the ceremony. The couple was unaware of the parents gestures so it was a fun surprise. The father of the Bride said that he was not happy that they were getting married so far away but then she always did do things the way she wanted. That got a big laugh out of the couple! It was a beautiful wedding with laughing and crying and a Champagne toast.

After the toast we headed out to the beach for photos. The Bride had lots of cute ideas and I had some utilizing the scene available for the day. We started at one end, working our way down the beach, laughing and having fun and then the bride said " Ok, was that enough dry ones because we are going in now". I said "AWESOME!". They got wet with waves crashing in behind them and had a blast! At one point the Groom borrowed a buggy board from a local near by.

I LOVE seeing others having fun and documenting the memories that will last forever!

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Much Aloha!

Bonita

I went to Hanalei Bay with my cousins ,who are visiting, to watch the sunset. I was holding my camera with my 300 lens hoping to get some good shots of the sunset and the bay. A gentleman walked up to me and said "ma'am, how far does your lens reach? Then he ask me if I could see the table that was on the beach in the far distance. He told me that the young man that came with them on their vacation was going to ask his daughter to marry him. The young man had a table set up with Leis, flowers, candles and a heart shape in the sand. The girls father wanted photos of the event and wanted to be sneaky about it. I could see the table but I told him I would have to go closer on the beach and I could just be taking photos around the area.

I saw the couple in the distance and started shooting the Love Story. The young man had a bunch of envelopes with letters for the Bride to be to read as they walked down the beach. They walked to the table and he waited for her to finish reading, then went down on his knee. She immediately put her hands on his face. She could't even wait until he stood up to kiss him and almost knocked him over. I knew at that moment that she said YES!!

She noticed I was taking photos and asked me something like " do we know you" and I told her that her Dad just hired me from the pier. The couple were so excited they were hugging me. They were thrilled that it was all documented.

I started to take a photo of her ring but she said it was just a temporary ring. She asked him where he got it and he said " Over Stock.com!!" Everyone laughed!

Today the father told me that the young man's mother told him that she had been praying that there would be some way for the event to be documented so she could experience it.

The experience was just as wonderful for me as it was for the couple and their families and I am so happy that I could be there in the right moment for them.

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Mahalo, Bonita