I have many fond memories of Dasha and Henry’s Big Sur wedding at the Grange Hall, but my favorite is the one when Dasha, while wearing her wedding dress, scaled a near-vertical cliff on a whim, to perch above us and peer down, looking both dignified and adventurous, her soon-to-be husband gazing up admiringly at her as he stood below on the beach, holding her bouquet.
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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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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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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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When Conner and I showed up to photograph Lorna & Jim’s Big Sur River Inn wedding, we found the groom lounging with his groomsmen on wooden chairs in the Big Sur River, just a few yards away from where was to be married in a few hours, enjoying cigars and some fine single malt scotch.
If that isn’t an indication that it’s going to be an amazing wedding, I don’t know what is.
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Let me just start out by saying that I love everything about this San Francisco wedding: the locations, the details, and (especially) the people involved. And let me also say that I was honored to be the person to photograph this wedding: the groom is an accomplished professional photographer, and many talented photographers were part of this wedding. It was an amazing day with an incredible group of people.
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There was a sign at Ilene & Mike’s Perry House Monterey wedding that said “Today two families become one, so pick a seat not a side.”
It was a gentle refutation of the long-standing wedding tradition that determines where guests sit during the ceremony, and the gesture wasn’t hollow: Ilene & Mike’s wedding at times reminded me of a family reunion.
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