In between capturing your day, we can almost guarantee they’ll shed a tear at your wedding. That’s what makes them so great – they’re down to earth and would be honored to photograph and make your day last forever…or at least until you book them again to shoot your baby/family portraits!

Plus they make it so easy to add anything you can dream of having in your new little home (online, via your phone, or in the store). Bonus: They give you gifts just for getting gifts. Every gift you get from your registry gives you 5% of that purchase price back in your pocket. So that KitchenAid Mixer you’ve been pining for? It retails for $399. Your mom buys it for you and you get 5% of that purchase in your Star Awards account. That’s like getting $20 bucks! Um, yes and thank you.

The perks to registering with Macy’s: Ever try to return a wedding gift to a superstore? Not fun at all. Superstores make it hard to make returns if they go a month after the date of purchase. Macy’s makes it easy peasy. You can return on-line and in-store up to a year after your wedding date (enough time for you to settle into your new abode and figure out what needs to go back), as long as the item is on your registry. And you get back the actual price of the item when it was purchased, not the subsequent sales prices. Love that!

Those beauties above are some of our favorite picks. If you’re loving them and want to add them to your registry asap, head to Macy’s Registry to get started! Happy shopping, Cakelets!

{from left: Acacia Wood Cheese Board Set, Jonathan Adler salt + pepper shaker, Kitchen Aid, Arteriors Table Lamp, kate spade new york Dinnerware, Le Creuset French Oven, Core Bamboo Modern Mortar and Pestle, Mikasa Barware}

*not valid on any beauty/fragrance purchase. Nor do you get 10% back from furniture if it’s self-purchased. So while you cannot register for furniture at Macy’s, you can use your rewards gift card to purchase that sofa or Karastan rug of your dreams.

They do everything from sourcing the venue, picking eye-catching stationery, booking an uber-stylish make-up artist, hiring the most entertaining band or coolest DJ, sourcing don’t-leave-behind favours, tracking to-die-for pieces of decor and creating an ambiance that will have you and your guests wishing the day to never end.

You can learn more about them here.

Portrait by Marianne Taylor Photography all other photos by Lisa Poggi

What is or has been your favorite wedding moment?
Clients have told me before that they can tell when I get excited about a photo I’ve just taken. My voice gets more animated, my heart races to capture the image in just the right way, I snap away, taking it all in. So often this has more to do with the way light is falling on a subject, or something in a subtle gesture that I find so inherently beautiful. It’s not the big, what my fiancé calls “meat and potato” wedding shot that you know you need to capture for any wedding narrative to be complete, but rather it’s the image that completely embodies the emotion and demeanor of the couple. It’s the photo that seems to be illustrative of the connection between the artist and her subject – and in this moment, I think I really get to know my clients best.

Favorite wedding trend of the moment? Wedding trend you’d love to see disappear forever?
I admit it – I love ombre. Maybe it’s the painter in me (I started off as a painter before transitioning to photography), but I truly don’t tire of the soft, ethereal look of this current wedding trend.  Ombre is perfect for weddings, when done in the subtle way that it should be used. The watercolor palette just allows colors to swirl around a dinner table and I particularly love the way that palette looks in detail photos. Ethereal, subtle ombré, in wedding decor, is hard to beat

I’d love to see the vintage filters and washed out yellow-hued photo processing leave forever – I’m drawn to an ephemeral look and I think it would be so wonderful if our images could just age naturally over time. I take the authenticity of my photos and the images I capture quite seriously and I would never advise a client to follow a trend that has more to do with what’s hip than what is meaningful.

Do you have a favorite song/band/style of music? Does it define or help shape your work?
I love Aimee Mann, Brandi Carlile, Adele – beautiful female vocals with strong emotion in their lyrics and melodies. I want my images to have that same sort of raw, true feeling, but In a pretty sense, not an overly gritty one.

Is there an artist/designer/generally creative person in a totally different field who inspires you?
Gosh, so many people! I am really inspired by Vera Wang’s color palette right now – soft nude, flushed pink, ivory – these tones seem to appear in my work naturally and I really love how Vera is always one step ahead. In general, I find myself always referring back to Vermeer’s work as an inspiration for dynamic window light, the movement and femininity in Degas’s paintings, and Jane Austen reminds me that a strong independent minded woman can still be one to fall in love.

If you weren’t a photographer, what would you be?
Had I not become a photographer, I’d be a painter or perhaps I would own a curiosities shop in France. Or maybe I would be a designer or illustrator. I have always been a highly visual person and if I had not chosen photography, I know I would have picked another creative field and I know it would be something visual.

Favorite winter food? (we love food).
Cooking is one of those talents that I truly wish I had, but I’ll happily settle for being able to take pretty photographs of delicious food made by others. I have been pinning the most delectable looking mini desserts on pinterest.

When it’s cold out, a yummy soup on a cold day is hard to top-Curried butternut squash soup with candied walnuts is a current favorite.

Thanks, Corbin. Stay tuned because next we’ll be sharing some painterly inspiration Corbin shot in Paris.

Here’s the scoop: Yeah! Rentals is a rental company specializing in Mid-century design (you know, Eames, Knoll, Risom, Herman Miller, Saarinen, etc.), plus a yummy does of navajo, native american, mexican and totally custom pieces crafted here in LA. They’re designing, buying, and shooting new pieces every day, and currently have inventory for events of up to 350 people, plus lounge furniture, rugs, props, blankets, benches, poufs and more.

Here’s the look:

Awesome, right? We think so. And a little secret, they’ll be supplying some sweet decor for Amanda’s wedding this fall. So excited!

You can follow them on Twitter (@yeahrentals) and Like them on FB too, if you’re so inclined. (We do, obvs!)

To talk details of your event, check out their full inventory, or just get inspired… pop over to yeahrentals.com.

{video by Son of Shark Pig)