Over the course of several weeks, Charles had put together a very well-thought-out sunset balcony proposal plan, involving parents and family members from both sides, as well as a big group of friends… pretty much everyone knew about it except Kristen [ read more … ]

As 2020 draws to a close, I’m ever more grateful for all the couples who continue to trust me to capture their most important memories. John & Kim originally were planning on a larger wedding, but in the end chose to have a little backyard wedding at their home in Foster City. It was a really lovely and intimate wedding [ read more … ]

Eight months into the pandemic with still no slowdown of the virus in sight, Katie and Brian still managed to have their wedding on their original wedding day — though as you might imagine, much of it had to be re-planned! Instead of a large indoor wedding, they ended up having a very small backyard ceremony. And for us, it was quite enjoyable both to photograph as well as just to witness. There’s really nothing quite so intimate and contemporary like Katie and Brian’s tiny, socially-distanced, live-streamed, backyard wedding! [ read more … ]

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Jason had schemed for Michelle’s friends to take her out to lunch for a few hours, while he went over to her parents’ backyard to set up an origami paper flower proposal. To prepare for this big moment, he had painstakingly folded dozens of flowers [ read more … ]

Harriet & Anthony are all about each other… and food. Lots of food. In fact, at their (very thoughtfully socially distanced) backyard ceremony, they had each written individual vows — and each made plenty of mentions of food and feeding each other and more food. And they had Bobaville drinks for everyone — my kind of couple! [ read more … ]