Shannon Montez Photography Blog » San Jose's Family and Child Photographer, Shannon Montez, captures all aspects of family life: Families, newborns, children, babies, high school seniors, and weddings.

Shannon and Jason!! First of all, fabulous name for a bride, don’t you think? Not only does she have a fabulous name, she is a REALLY fabulous person. And so is Jason. Shannon is a graphic designer, she designed her own invites, and printed them out on her OWN letterpress machine. I almost died when she told me that. I have a tiny obsession with letterpress.

Their wedding took place the latter part of June in Livermore. We hit at least 104 that day, but it was totally ok. We had so much fun we hardly noticed that we were melting a bit. I was just loving the whole amazing day…

Goooorgeous…..

The beautiful, delicious invites… I don’t feel right showing the whole thing with their full names, but just take my word for it… amazing.

I love the perspective of this shot… Shannon making her way down the aisle, with  Jason and the priest watching…

Their first dance was beautiful… a real, choreographed dance. Love it!

A sweet moment caught during the dance…

You can check out the entire slideshow here.

Five kids. They are officially the largest single family I’ve shot. I have to say, I was a tad jealous of squishy baby number five. Made me kind of want a squishy baby number five of my own. If it would stay a squishy baby… one that was happy all the time and slept all night and stuff and never threw random fits or pooped… I would totally have another one. Because I would really like one of those. But chances are, I’d have one that grew older and pooped occasionally so rather than risking that I guess we’ll just keep the status quo and enjoy the four I have and just remember my squishy babies fondly and squish all the babies I have the privilege of capturing.

Anyway, I love large beautiful families like my own.

These two shots totally illustrate life with kids to me. Crazy, fun, loud, exhausting, wonderful.

One more look at sweet squishy baby:

Yummmmmmy…..

Still in catch-up mode… Carol and Eric are already married! Watch for their wedding images soon.

I absolutely love these guys. I love how they are their own little team, totally connected. They met in downtown Campbell, just 3 doors down from my studio. It was only fitting that we hold the session in Campbell!

ok… one more. (this narrowing it to 1-3 images is really hard!)

This shot was taken inside the restaurant/pub where they met. I *love* when the location is really meaningful to the couple!