Who can resist a couple head over heels in love ?  Not me.  I sure can’t.  That is my favorite type!

When Karissa Paxton from Coastside Couture contacted me regarding an elopement two days before the bride had to fly back to England I was giddy.  Lucky for the bride, Becky, she was getting married to a gentleman, Rob who happen to be good friends with Karissa who plans weddings for a living.  Karissa hooked the lovely couple up with all the local goodness, starting off  in our coastal redwoods  and leaving them at the Dream Inn for an oceanside dinner and first night as a married couple.  Becky had traveled here a couple months back to visit a friend when she was caught off guard by a handsome fella in the bike shop.  Upon laying eyes on him, she went mute and could only blush in response.  A couple days later, upon the urging from her mother and friends, she mustered up her flirting genes, put on a dress, brushed out her helmet hair and went back to chat with him.  He. was. not. there.  Just about to leave, she spied him in the back and very non-chalauntly says, “Hey Rob.” He promptly hung up the phone and stood there talking to her in the bike shop for two hours straight.

The lovely Karissa in her sunny Santa Cruzian home.

A few calming words.