Red Heart Photography » wedding lifestyle photography on Hawaii

Just posting to wish everyone a happy New Year.  Be safe and celebrate with the ones you love. 

Here is a quick sneak peek of my last two weddings of the year.

Victoria + Matt : Wedding : Kikaua Point, Kona

Jenn + Frank : Wedding : Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki

I am gearing up for the launch of my new wedding site, a mobile site (iPhone friendly portfolio!), and the barrage of new clients. 

Also, available January 16th, Wedding Belles by Tanna Dang of the Wedding Cafe.  I get to pick up my copy at an exclusive launch party on the 14th.  I will be sure to post photos of my images in the book.  I have already spied one of my shots on the COVER!!!!  

I can’t wait to share all these images with you.  

xoxo, Marina

My family and I have traveled to so many places in 2008, it would have been impossible to fit them all onto our 5×7 card.  

Card cover image By Amy Gaerthofner.  Additional photos by Rachel Hadiashar and Marina Miller.  Card design by Marina Miller.

In place of a printed Christmas newsletter, here is a taste of my true passion, my FAMILY. 

Our 2008: I booked a bunch of destination weddings, Jason hosted a lot of concerts (like the legendary punk rock band ”The Misfits“), Mr.E started preschool, Mr.L started 1st grade and became a yellow belt in Taekwondo, and Mr.T started 2nd grade, lost his front teeth, earned a green belt in Taekwondo, and completed his first soccer season.  We moved from our Mililani apartment (FOR RENT if you know anyone!) to a great 3 bedroom house in Aiea. 

This year we vacationed in Tokyo, Japan.  It was February and cold enough to keep me from wanting to shop in Harajuku!  We enjoyed riding the trains and exploring the foreign land.  The kids really liked where we stayed, the Shinagawa Prince, because among other things, there was a bowling alley and a dolphin show, right in our hotel.  

Our next trip was to San Francisco, but due to a hard drive crash, I lost all of my personal photos from that trip.  It was a short trip, but we got to visit Jason’s family and took a brisk trolley ride through downtown San Francisco and hit Ghirardelli for some of the best hot cocoa ever.

Then we went to New York.  It was our first time there and it was awesome!  Again we rode the trains.  The boys loved central park and Coney Island.  My favorite place had to be the MoMA.  

In November we all flew over for my two weddings in Kona.  We stayed at the Hilton Waikoloa and had a blast going down the slides.  I think I liked sneaking beers from our hotel room to the poolside the best….  ;)

December brought us our closest to home adventure, a North Shore shark tour!  My good friends came along and provided me with some amazing family photos (seen on our card above).

For more photos of the kids and our trips, please e-mail me ( marina@redheartphoto.com ).

Thanks to everyone who has kept up with my work this year.  I wish you all the best this holiday season.  

Aloha, Marina

I snuck off to Maui for the day to meet up with Melissa and Jesse from New York.  After picking me up from the airport, we drove up to Iao Needle.  The weather was perfect and they were ready for an adventure.  Next we drove south to the beautiful beaches of Kihei.  I don’t know who had more fun, but I know for sure who got the most wet!!!!

Thanks for the fun day Melissa and Jesse.  I hope you had a safe trip home!

Since all my shows are on repeat (thanks holiday season!) I have been snuggling my laptop in the dark, finding goodies….

First, I found this GEM, the Bridal Boutique’s Hawaii Bridal Expo flyer featuring photos from a wedding I rocked earlier this year.  The bride here is Kanoe, married back in March.  This card was handed out to hundreds of brides back in August.

Second, after poking around trying to revamp my vendor list, I stumbled on these photos of an Olympic athlete and his super gorgeous wife featured in the real weddings section of Pacific Weddings Magazine online.  

Next, a few of my shots of the 2008 Kokua Festival ended up on the local newspapers blog.  I am already looking forward to Kokua ‘09.  I just hope I have the time to work all 6 days of production again.  It is really interesting to watch a festival come to life and in some small way, be a part of it.  

Cool, here’s my own Hawaiian Miles Partner page!  It’s true, I offer 2 miles for every dollar spent.  If you give me your Miles Member number at the time of payment, i will add your earned miles at the end of the current month.

Lastly, here are 12 ways to make sure you don’t get depressed on December 26th.  If you have a low impact holiday, you are giving the Earth a present.  How can you not feel good about that?

Next posts to look forward to are Kona Wedding #2 and my yearly wrap up with photos from all the trips I took with my family.  :)

xoxo, Marina