Jasmine & Miguel’s La Selva Beach wedding
Imagine having a wedding ceremony on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean on a perfect fall day in a sleepy coastal town in California. Jasmine & Miguel imagined that, then made it happen.
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Nga & Mitch’s Wildwood Acres Resort wedding
A few things surprised me about Nga & Mitch’s Wildwood Acres Resort wedding. I didn’t expect to find a scenic redwood grove tucked inside a retirement community. I didn’t know that one could commission custom bobbleheads for an entire wedding party. And I never would’ve suspected that the quest for true love could be so convincingly compared to searching for a parking space.
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Leslie & Brendan’s Zen Peninsula wedding reception
There are a trio of two-word phrases I’d like to share about Leslie & Brendan’s wedding reception: Fog Machine. Gold capes. Lion dancers.
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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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Jan & Eldridge’s Monterey Beach Resort wedding
There’s something classic and romantic about a wedding on the beach in California. Having the largest body of water in the world as one of your witnesses is pretty special.
However, as we Northern Californians know, you also have to be a little adventurous to wed on the beach, because sometimes the Pacific can be an uncooperative wedding guest.
Fortunately, Jan and Eldridge are adventurous and the Pacific was polite for their Monterey Beach Resort wedding.
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Leslie & Brendan’s San Francisco City Hall wedding
When I first met with Leslie and Brendan to discuss their San Francisco City Hall wedding, we chatted over Mexican food and beers about what they wanted photographically. After a few ideas were thrown around, Leslie described her ideal wedding photography scenario: Someone to document the day, every step, from when they start getting ready to when they leave city hall, purely photojournalistically.
Music to my ears.
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Lokie & Ted’s Gull’s Way Estate Malibu wedding
Sometimes when I’m photographing a wedding, I pause and look around me and can’t believe how amazing everything is.
Such was the case at Lokie & Ted’s Gull’s Way Estate Malibu wedding, in which I found myself photographing an incredible wedding at the late Dick Clark’s home.
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