Playa Grande, Costa Rica Wedding: Kaila + Alexander

When it is cheaper to rent a beach front house in Costa Rica for a week and host your wedding there than back home in Canada, you start planning a destination wedding. Enter Kaila and Alexander from Tofino, Canada. Amongst their closest family, friends, and some...

Dear Nikon

Dear Nikon, My name is Kristen and I live in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. I am a dreamer and a doer. I love to dance with waves {surf}, chase sunsets, stand on my head, and laugh my butt off.  I am also head-over-heels in love with taking photographs with my Nikon DSLR...

Wedding Número Cuatro

What to do when the mother-of-the-groom falls and breaks her arm two hours before the ceremony and is rushed to the hospital for surgery? Have your cousin GoPro the ceremony. Hide your iPhone in the bust of your dress so you can record the ceremony just in case #1 has...

Camburi, Brazil Wedding: Luciana + Lawrence – Amor

Camburi, Brazil- So about 29 years ago my brother was not a very happy camper. He was about to become a big brother, and worse yet, to a little girl. That little girl was me. Little did he know that I would have preferred an older sister. So began our story. Lawrence...

Esther Olario Design

L-U-C-K-Y It currently is rainy season here in Costa Rica and fortunately enough I was able to squeeze in a early morning photo shoot for Esther Olario designs with some sunshine! Lucky enough as every morning after the photo shoot was cloudy and/or rainy! Wedding...

Elfer’s Got Hitched

Click here to read and see images from the full blog post posted on my personal blog, Samba to the Sea. Last sumer I travelled to the US for two of my close college friends’ weddings that just so happened to be back-to-back (no, they did not plan it this way), so I...