Martina and Adam have been together for almost a decade, and they’ve already started a family together — the two of them and their pet bunny 🙂 Now that their wedding is coming up, we went into the beautiful outdoors for a winter engagement session. [ read more … ]

When I think of places in that are both quiet and have a great view of San Francisco, not a lot of places come to mind… and most of them involve a lot of hiking. But nestled in the middle of San Francisco, Ina Coolbrith Park is a hidden gem that’s the perfect spot for a surprise proposal: it’s convenient to get to, has a beautiful view of the San Francisco skyline (and of Alcatraz if you look off to the side), and offers an easy, quiet walk through a pretty private location. [ read more … ]

Love is in the air — quite literally! One of the most unique and spectacular ways to propose is to write it out in the air through skywriting, in huge mile-high letters where everyone can see from miles around. Tigran had arranged for a pilot to spell out “Nastya marry me” high over the Golden Gate Bridge (Nastya being the short form of his fiancee’s name) while they were visiting SF from out of town. After discussing timing with the skywriters and ship captains, we worked out a plan with the best location and heading for photos [ read more … ]

Jordan had been planning this one for a while. In fact, he had picked out the ring long ago, and even came close to inadvertently spilling the beans — one night at dinner with friends, Jennifer was looking at some photos on a friend’s phone and caught a peek of the ring! Luckily, they were able to play it off [ read more … ]

Vicki and Wai-en met online like seemingly everyone does these days, and their story together quickly blossomed from there. (I think the last… 5? 6? couples we’ve talked to were all first brought together by the magic of the Internet — which would have been quite unbelievable even five years ago!) The two moved in together right as the pandemic was beginning, and they found such joy in being quarantine buddies that they officially got engaged in September. Fast forward two months, and here we are for their engagement photos at the Palace of Fine Arts and Baker Beach 🙂 [ read more … ]