Kassidy Mefford Love is a native of Wyoming and has spent the last twenty-two years photographing weddings and Real Estate, predominantly in California, Mexico and Nicaragua and with destination shoots all over the world. She began developing her signature eye at seventeen years old after shooting her first wedding, shortly followed by her first nationally aired documentary at eighteen. An accomplished writer and driven filmmaker, Kassidy has explored the many facets that influence creative photography and photojournalism. She always strives to see something extraordinary in everything she photographs.
Being an honors graduate of the prestigious Brooks Institute of photography in Santa Barbara, California proves her technical skill, but it is her genuine demeanor, her photographic style and vision that is memorable. As a photojournalist for several California based newspapers and magazines, Kassidy photographed countless homes in the Napa and Sonoma valleys for Sotheby’s, Coldwell Banker and others. She has created a distinctive style of shooting; capturing true moments as they present themselves and representing a home in its most beautiful way. She doesn’t just capture a room how you would see it in real life, but also the little vignettes that clients work so hard to create that make a house feel like a home.
Kassidy lived in the Southern Nicaraguan surf town of Playa Gigante for six years in which she founded a non-profit organization called The Sweet Water Fund, which empowers local women through job opportunities, a healthy lifestyle and the arts. She built a kitchen at the local school from recycled plastic bottles, a bridge over a river so elementary kids could get to school, provided annual school supplies for the children through fundraisers, and started a health and fitness initiative for the women that still exists today. During this time, she owned and operated a highly successful Surf Lodge / Tour company, managing fifteen employees and increased sales and satisfaction by 80%, with 100% five-star ratings on Tripadvisor for excellent service and hospitality.
After Nicaragua, Kassidy spent three more years as a photographer and filmmaker in Napa Valley where her two sons were born. In the new year of 2016, she and her little family ventured south once again to the sunny shores of the Riviera, Nayarit and settled in San Pancho Mexico, just ten minutes North of Sayulita, Mexico.
Kassidy worked for Fred Feibel of F.L. Feibel y Asociados Bienes Raices, photographing all of their listings and creating promotional videos, as well as volunteering for EntreAmigos (the local community center) events and fundraising for the local Montessori school (Escuela delMundo).
Kassidy decided to join her husband, Benny Love, and open Wanderlust Real Estate and Development with her business management skills, hospitality, website building, and photojournalism skillset. Kassidy has also taken the AMPI certified Real Estate course, Bienes Raices I, so she is informed in Mexican real estate laws and knows the market well. Kassidy and her photography team will continue to professionally photograph and shoot video of our listings and make sure that the media is posted on our website promptly and to the MLS and FLEXmls as well as Facebook and Instagram. We pride ourselves on quality and integrity.
She was a principal photographer at the 2017 + 2018 Festival Sayulita, Principal Photographer at the 2013 BottleRock Music Festival in Napa Valley, as well as the principal photographer for the annual groundbreaking fundraiser, the Staglin Family Winery Music festival for Mental health, six years in a row.
She has photographed at the following venue’s: Auberge du Soleil Napa Valley, Charles Krug, Calistoga Ranch, Nickel and Nickel, The Vintage Inn Estates, Kunde Winery, Nicholson Ranch, Trentadue Winery, Stags’ Leap Winery, KapscandyFamily winery, Larkmead Winery, The San Francisco Fairmont, The Sonoma Mission Inn, The Lodge at Sonoma, Solage, Di Rosa Reserve, Silverado Country Club, Staglin Family winery, Hacienda Iguana Beach Club, Rancho Santana, Aqua Resort and Spa, Buena Vista Surf Club, Diamond Cross Ranch in Jackson Hole,Wyoming and Hacienda Antigua near San Pancho, Mexico.
A delightful coastal community, a short drive from the sky-scraping, timeshare hotels that line the Puerto Vallarta coastline, lies San Francisco (known locally as San Pancho) in the Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. A short ten-minute drive from lively Sayulita and a 45-minute drive from the Puerto Vallarta airport, san Pancho is the tranquil escape that we’ve all been looking for.
When you 
San Pancho has an old world charm and a community of artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and those who have chose to spend their winters here, soaking up the sun and the culture who make up this special place. They ride their bikes or walk everywhere they go. They stroll the beach at sunrise and watch baby turtles protected by the local turtle sanctuary make their way to their native ocean. They chat with friends at the local coffee shops over local coffee farmer’s lattes, homemade banana bread and savory empanadas.
On any given night, you can expect to hear live music coming from travelers from Argentina, Mexico city or Guadalajara softly strumming guitars and ringing acoustic to the enchanted visitors dining al fresco. The town hums with artists young and old, children running freely, young surfers running barefoot to catch the end of the day, and those with wanderlust strolling the promedade. One can hear multiple languages being spoken on the streets and the businesses are run by people from all over the world. This is not just your average Mexican village, this is melting pot of cultures who all seem to have one thing in common… a desire to savor life and to slow it down a bit.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, and still somewhat today, the coast of San Pancho and Sayulita and nearby mountainous region known as the 
Entreamigos offers more than 600 classes and workshops in the facility, most of them free of charge. The non-profit organization has a variety of programs that are intended to bridge cultural and economic differences with the intention of increasing educational opportunities, environmental stewardship and collective community responsibility. They offer scholarships to the local kids and some of the successful entrepreneurs in San Pancho are results of that very scholarship program.
Another spectacular feature in San Pancho is the formation of Circo de Niños (Kid’s circus) which was founded in 2011 by Cirque de Soleil’s founding directors, Gilles Ste. Croix and Monique Voyer. Initially conceived as a fundraising idea for Entreamigos, Gilles Ste. Croix offered to oversee a presentation involving about 40 children incorporating elements of his famous Montreal troupe. By autumn 2014, Cirque de Soleil had donated equipment and the Circo de los Niños began rehearsing in the Entreamigos space. An outdoor performance of ¡Órale! was given at the Plaza de San Francisco and the Mayan Palace in the Punta de Mita resort. In March 2015, Circo de los Niños was granted the use of one of the government warehouses on the same property as Entreamigos and performed a four night run of their first Cirque du Soleil like performance before audiences of about 250. The circus performance continues today with tickets selling out immediately and is an absolute marvel to witness. If one has ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, this children’s circus has the music, the lights, the story, the acrobatics, and the magic of a typical show in Vegas, but with children of the San Pancho community who train all year to perform for their families and tourists alike.
The entire state of Nayarit is located south of the 
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