The Rasers – West Coast & Destination Wedding Photography » Creative Husband & Wife Photography Duo - West Coast, US, Destination

We are so incredibly excited and honored to share that one of our images has been chosen as part of Junebug Weddings “Best of the Best 2012.” They received almost 7,000 entries from 39 countries, and we can’t tell you how thrilled we are to be included in the final 50 images. It’s an amazing collection of work from some truly incredible artists, and we hope you’ll stop on by to take a look.

Thank you so much to all of you for continuing to be a part of our lives and our work, and to all of our incredible couples for such a fun and crazy year. Please click on the image below to visit the Junebug website and see the other incredible images that were chosen. Thanks!

–Derren & Lisa–

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We’ve been reflecting on this past year and we are so grateful to be doing what we’re doing. We’ve gotten to work with so many amazing couples, and we’ve so had so many awesome adventures. This new year is going to be a wonderful and exciting one, we can feel it, and we hope it brings you many wonderful things as well! Happy new year!! –Derren & Lisa–

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(This is a self portrait we took on a gorgeous day we had in San Francisco after a Bay Area wedding this past Fall. We’re so excited to be coming back to SF for some weddings this year as well!)

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We hope everyone has been having a great holiday season! We wanted to end this year with a bang, and we thought sharing Zhen & Andrey’s wedding would be the perfect way to do that. We love shooting weddings that mix it up, and these two put together so many unique and fun elements for their day that really honored and represented their personalities and their very different cultural backgrounds. It was a beautiful day and we had a blast capturing it all! We had so much fun being with Zhen & Andrey and we hope you enjoy peeking in on their day’s awesomeness. Happy holidays everyone!

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We were so excited when Eric & Jeni agreed to meet us at Elephant Rocks State Park. It turns out we had both heard of the spot and were both anxious to go exploring there. We got an awesome day, and you’ll see below why they call it Elephant Rocks. It’s an amazing place, and there really does seem to be endless paths and formations to wander off into and explore. We had so much fun hiking, climbing and enjoying the great outdoors with these two! We’re itching for our next visit to the park, and hope we can convince these two to go exploring with us again. Enjoy!!

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We met Staci & Matt at a wedding we shot in Chicago last year and we immediately felt a connection with them. At that point they actually weren’t even engaged yet, but everyone felt like it was such an awesome fit that we were already talking about coming out to be a part of their San Diego wedding, whenever that ended up being. We are so glad they decided to have us be a part of this day, because they are two of the nicest and sweetest people we’ve ever had a chance to work with. They also have this ridiculous chemistry together. Whenever we’d get them in front of the camera together they’d just do exactly the right thing shot after shot, without us really having to tell them what to do. They seriously made our job easy!

Their reception was at the Prado in Balboa Park, which has a special place in our hearts. When we were dating, we used to walk often from Derren’s Hillcrest apartment down to Balboa Park on mild San Diego evenings. It was awesome to be back and to be taking part in such a special celebration there. Thank you so much Staci & Matt for bringing us into your day! When will you be getting married again, so we can do this with you guys all over again!? Enjoy!

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We also had a chance to work with some amazing wedding professionals throughout this day. Thank you so, so much to Alica at YOUnique Weddings for your help and amazing coordinating job! Kristy & Stacey from Taylored Beauty and Kelsey Doonan also did such wonderful work. Also, thanks to DJ Dennis J for the great music and Cherry Blossom for the absolutely beautiful florals! The cake by Flour Power was awesome–and they had our favorite, Sprinkles, at the wedding as well–yes! And last, but not least, thank you to the Prado, for providing such a stunning setting.