Alexa & Tyler’s Stanford University engagement photos | Cactus Garden & Arastradero Preserve
It’s been hot and dry here lately, so it was fitting that for Alexa & Tyler’s Stanford University engagement photos we went to a cactus garden.
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Antoinette & Clint’s Vermont farm wedding
Way back in 2002, when my now-wife Amber and I moved to California, I drove a U-Haul cross-country from Ohio while Amber stayed behind and finished up her job. It was chock full of our belongings and dragging my car behind it, and the trip would’ve been a solo mission if my friend Clint didn’t step up and come with me.
Fast forward fourteen years and I’m hopping out of a back seat of a car well after midnight in the middle of rural Vermont after a very long day of delayed flights and a pair of double IPAs (thanks, Kyle and Pam!) and Clint and I embrace like no time had passed at all. We had only seen each other once since that cross-country trip. Now I was there to document his marriage to Antoinette.
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Karolina & Ashley’s Wind and Sea Big Sur wedding
When I first talked to Karolina and Ashley, they told me they wanted a photo from their wedding that captured them surrounded by the grandness of Big Sur. Something epic they could blow up big and hang on their wall.
No problem, I figured. They were getting married at Wind and Sea, a private home perched on a Pacific cliff, the majesty of the Big Sur coast spread out before it. In my mind I envisioned something with cliffs and ocean and the sunset.
But I quietly hoped for a clear night with no moon and a visible Milky Way, so I could do a shot exactly like the one at the top of this blog post.
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Patti & Richard’s Los Angeles wedding
From portrait sessions at historic homes to a reception in an art gallery, Patti & Richard’s Los Angeles wedding day was as full of beautiful settings as it was full of love and joy.
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Anna & Taylor’s Olympia’s Valley Estate wedding
Let’s see … paddling on a pond in a canoe, an air guitar performance with inflatable toy guitars, a Frank Sinatra impersonator, crowd surfing during the reception … these are just a few of the things that made Anna & Taylor’s Olympia’s Valley Estate wedding so memorable.
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Katherine & Adam’s San Francisco wedding
Moments before we left the hotel room where Katherine & Adam got ready for their San Francisco wedding, both of them took a big pull from the bottle of champagne that was earlier used for making Mimosas.
After seeing them drink straight from the bottle, I told them, “I like your style.”
Katherine replied, “I thought we’d be a good fit.”
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Rosiella & Jeffrey’s downtown San Jose wedding
Although I live in downtown San Jose, most of the weddings I photograph are elsewhere: Monterey, San Francisco, Napa, etc. However, I suspect that after engaged couples get a look at the incredible event that Rosiella & Jeffrey put together, they’ll seriously consider having a downtown San Jose wedding.
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