I arrived at Candice and Andy’s Monterey wedding knowing that is was going to be a great day: We had a fantastic time during their engagement session in Colorado, they were getting married a few feet away from Monterey Bay, their wedding was going to have a super cool self-portrait station. And it did indeed turn out to be an awesome day, made all the more beautiful and interesting by the myriad hand-made decorations that gave the seaside wedding its oceanic theme.
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Great weather, great locations and a great couple make for great engagement photos. For Lokie & Ted’s Carmel engagement session, we had all three, and a little dog, too.
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Jen & Gordon got married deep in the wilderness of Big Sur, at a Boy Scout camp miles from civilization, surrounded by rivers and redwoods, family and friends. It was one of the most unique and relaxed celebrations I’ve ever been witness to, in a place I didn’t want to leave.
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San Francisco’s legendary fog can be beautiful — rolling gracefully over the hills and shrouding the city in soft light — and it can be frustrating, like when it’s so thick you can’t even see the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Let’s say you want to plan the most gorgeous and fun wedding you can dream up, a day where you get all your friends and family together for a touching ceremony and a super fun party, the kind of day that everyone will remember and talk about for years. Let’s also say, just for the sake of argument, that you have no idea how to go about doing this. Well, let me humbly suggest that you use Monica & Kyle’s Olympia’s Valley Estate wedding as a template, because they threw one of the most amazing weddings I’ve ever had the privilege of witnessing.
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For me, a big part of every engagement session is getting to know the couple and exploring an area with them. We did lots of both of those things during Lucinda & Matt’s Berkeley engagement session, which actually started at Ardenwood Historic Farm, where they’ll be getting married soon.
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