Meet Marissa and Jonathan Lundy of Lundy Weddings in Brea

Today we’d like to introduce you to Marissa and Jonathan Lundy.

Marissa and Jonathan, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
My husband and I have been together for three years, but friends for many years. Our friendship that evolved into us dating and then getting married always involved many photoshoots and exploring the Pacific Northwest where we grew up. We would spend days going on hikes and taking pictures together, and even when we were not intentionally on a photo shoot, we would always factor in a couple extra hours for taking photos. We weren’t anticipating on ever using photography and a career, as we were both planning on moving down to SoCal to go to different schools, so I could study nursing and he could study music. We also weren’t planning on starting dating, but we made the distance between us work and the photoshoots continued!

We didn’t start shooting weddings until we had a friend who asked us to shoot her little wedding back at home in Portland. Her dad was just diagnosed with ALS and she wanted to have a ceremony before he couldn’t walk her down the aisle any more. It was such a special experience for us to be part of and we fell in love with being able to capture more than just the moment of the bride and her father walking down the aisle, but we were also able to catch every precious moment that would allow the bride and groom to relive their special day over and over.

We have always had a very busy life outside of photography with work and school, but we still enjoy shooting weddings on the weekend and being able to take part of the best day of the bride and grooms life. We got married last month and this is something that we have grown to appreciate even more- as our entire day was such a blur. It made everything about a wedding so important to us- as we had photos taken of us with family members we would probably never see again, moments we could never recreate, and joy and happiness that could not be described but could be captured in a photo. We think about all these moments when we are shooting a wedding and treasure them for our bride and groom, knowing that we are capable of helping them re-live their best day. And we just love this!

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It hasn’t always been easy shooting weddings and being a nursing student have having long clinical hours throughout the week, and then finding the energy and time to spend 10-12+ hours at a wedding on the weekends. It has also been hard for my husband, as he works full-time as a software developer and has to travel a lot, and still find time for weddings on the weekends and editing through the week. But when it gets really overwhelming, we like to talk about how grateful we are to have such wonderful bride and grooms, who appreciate us and who have allowed us to be there on their special day. When we are thankful for the opportunities we have to shoot weddings, it becomes something that we look forward to on the weekends and treasure the time we have at them!

Please tell us about Lundy Weddings.
We mostly photograph weddings, but we have done headshots, senior photos, and other random photoshoots for friends. We love to photograph weddings the most, but we never want to pass up an opportunity to bless a friend!

Jonathan and I always ask ourselves the question, “Would we hire ourselves as wedding photographers?” When we were planning our wedding, we spent hours, and I mean HOURS looking for a photographer that was right for us. The way the edited, how they communicated, how they interacted with people, their price range and who they were was all very important to us. And we love the photographers we chose! Many of our guests commented on how kind and easy to work with they were. And our families loved the way they interacted with the little ones during the family photos!

We try to remember what we were looking for when we are interacting with a bride and groom. We want ourselves to be easy to communicate, and that it why I always try to respond to emails from a bride or groom in an hour. I felt the stress of wedding planning when I wasn’t able to hear back from someone right away, and I know that the bride or groom might be feeling the same way! My husband and I also had a tight budget for our wedding, so it was important to us that we were able to find the talent that was within our budget, so we always want to work with our bride and grooms and their budget, never rejecting anyone simply because they can’t pay our prices. We also realize that the photographers carry a lot of the feel for the wedding day as the photographers can be the one who can make the day seem rushed, busy, or too “businessy” and we are not about that! We want to be nothing but a pleasant and calm presence to the bride and groom, as there are plenty other things for them to worry about on a wedding day! Lastly, we know that the end product is extremely anticipated by the bride and groom. This is why we aim to return the photos to the bride and groom within a month. And of course, it is our goal to provide them high quality photos of every special moment in a way that they can download, order, and print easily.

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My husband and I actually grew up together, and one of our favorite things from our childhood was when our whole church would go camping on a coastal town in Oregon. It was so much fun to be there with our whole church and eat together, play songs together, go on bike rides together, and go to the beach together. There was just something so special about being so tight in community that we could go on vacation together, and the vacation spot was just gorgeous. There were miles of bike trails through the forest and to the beach and dozens of abandoned World War II forts to explore and play games in. It was such a special time and we looked forward to it every year!

Pricing:

• Full Package- $2950
• Base Package- $2150
• Al la Carte- engagement/bridal session $395 and extended coverage $195/ hour

Contact Info:

• Website: lundyweddings.com
• Phone: 503-719-9667
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @lundyweddings
• Facebook: Lundy Weddings

Image Credit:
All images belong to Lundy Weddings 2017.

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