Alba Fiore Blog! The Passion of Living.

FUN. The Golobe family knows how to rock a wedding. Thanks Natalie and Joe for an excellent wedding day.

This was his second shoot and he's grown up all of a sudden. He's beautiful, Carrie, and thank you for letting me be his personal photographer!

I've been here awhile and the only thing I'm certain of is that life is about love. I waited a long time before having my daughter--wasn't even sure I wanted children, the time was never right, I still had so much to do--but I knew in my heart that I needed one. And my heart was right.
She is the constant source of love that keeps me focused. Children really are blessings--all of them--and I give thanks daily that I have my blessing.

My mother, Isabel and I spent a wonderful day at Muir Beach. Aside from a very bad beagle eating our lunch, the day was perfect.

Isabel's been to the beach before--but she never knew that you could play 'you can't get me' with the waves. She loved it. Taunting the ocean with her laughter. I could kiss her right now!

As I watched my mom and Isabel together, I thought about my relationship with my mother. We've had our 'grains of sand'--the irritants that cause bad attitudes and stand between total acceptance. We've had our 'salty' times-- when you couldn't say the right thing and didn't want to try. And we've had our 'chasing waves' days--the missed opportunities to talk heart to heart. But those moments wash out of our lives as easily as the waves receding from the beach, and they become part of the bigger picture again--the whole picture where we see more than the hard moments--we see the love that has spanned the vastness of our lives and I realized that the love I have for my daughter is the same love I have for my mother.

It was a perfect day.

Thanks for visiting.

The Piazza Wedding, at Lake Natoma Inn in Folsom, was smooth sailing. Dan and Amber are a fun couple and they were up for cruising through old-town Folsom to get some great shots. Check www.albafiore.com later for video.

The Romero Wedding, at Arden Hills Country Club was tasteful and relaxed. Laura and Thomas wrote their own vowes--it's wonderful to watch people so in love get married. The ceremony was perfectly conducted by Rev. Will Huttunen of Imagine the Dream (willhuttunen@yahoo.com)and DJ Cali of The Entertainment Team (www.entertainmentteam.com) rocked the party. The entire event was orchestrated by Heather and Tracy from Exceptional Events (exceptional-events.com) and it ran like swiss clockwork. Go to www.albafiore.com and look at the Screening Room to view a teaser from this wedding.