Meet Alissa
For the moments you’ll want to remember just as they were.
Hi, I’m Alissa. I’ve been a photographer for more than a decade, which is still a little crazy to say out loud. What started with me constantly taking photos as a kid eventually became the career I’ve built and genuinely love.
I photograph weddings, proposals, engagements, and families throughout Laguna Beach and Orange County. My style is candid and relaxed, with just enough direction to make everything feel natural. Most of all, I want taking photos to actually be fun. Come as you are, enjoy the people you’re with, and I’ll take care of the rest.
I want you to look like yourselves in your photos. I want your kids to be kids. I want real laughs, movement, personality, and all the things that make your people your people. I’ll guide you when you need it, make sure you look and feel your best, and leave plenty of room for the moments that happen on their own.
I truly feel honored to preserve these memories for you. I know how meaningful photographs become over time, and being trusted to create something you’ll carry with you for years means so much to me.
I’ve photographed everything from intimate family moments and surprise proposals to more than 70 weddings. That experience has taught me when to give direction, when to anticipate what’s coming, and when to simply step back and let the moment unfold.
My work has been featured by Martha Stewart Weddings, NBC LA, Time Out LA, Laguna Beach Magazine, and NBA Los Angeles, but what I’m most proud of is creating photographs that still mean something to the people in them years later.
Beyond the Camera
Texas raised. California living.
Wife + mama.
Cuban salsa queen
Beach days on repeat
I’d love to meet you.
If you connect with my work and think we’d be a good fit, tell me a little about yourself and what you’re planning. I’d love to hear about it.
Why Photographs Have Always Mattered to Me
I grew up in a big Cuban family, and photographs have always meant a lot to us.
My grandparents on both sides came from Cuba, and when they left, they could only bring what they could carry. The photographs that survived became pieces of our family history.
Growing up, I loved looking through old photos of my grandparents’ wedding in 1950s Havana and seeing my family before I knew them. Not just the big occasions either. I loved the everyday photos. What people were wearing, what their homes looked like, who was sitting around the table, and all the details that probably didn’t seem important when someone took the picture.
Now they’re priceless to us.
I think that’s a big reason photography has always felt important to me. Of course I want you to have beautiful photographs, but I also know that with time, the people in those photographs and everything they represent become even more meaningful.
