Patrick had gotten the engagement ring ready more than a year ago and had been waiting for exactly the right time and place. He truly spent a lot of time planning and wanting everything to be exactly perfect, and I know this because during the more than three months that we had been in contact, he scouted out a bunch of spots and even sent me photos of places he liked! Eventually, he settled on the Berkeley Rose Garden for his proposal. [ read more … ]

Boris & Genevieve’s guests traveled from the four corners of the globe to join them in celebrating their modern Jewish wedding at The Gardens at Heather Farm. The date was specially chosen to be on Gen’s grandmother’s birthday, and the venue, a non-profit with beautiful roses and a dedication to sustainable gardening, was chosen in memory of her love for gardening and especially for roses. [ read more … ]

Heather & Adam initially planned on having their engagement shoot at the beach, so we met up at the top of the trail that leads down to Marshall’s Beach, which is a beautiful, relatively secluded spot and has become one of our most popular spots for engagement photos. But we had such a good time taking lots of photos on the hike towards the beach that we didn’t even end up going down to the water! [ read more … ]

I loved the uniqueness and personality that Antoinette & Remy weaved into their wedding day at the Point Reyes Station Dance Palace. I’ll start with their wedding ceremony, one of my favorites and perhaps most memorable to date. A&R would have loved to have their cats play the role of flower girl and ring bearer, but I think we can probably imagine how that would have played out. Instead, they made cardboard cutouts of their cats’ faces [ read more … ]

If there’s one couple who has their deck of cards in perfect order, it would be Afraaz & Parinaz. They first met just ten weeks ago — yes, ten weeks — and in that brief time, they met each others’ parents, got engaged, started planning for their wedding next year in India, and found us for their San Francisco beach engagement photos. [ read more … ]