Santa Cruz Engagement Session | Michelle & Linh

I’m so glad that my clients are thinking out of the box these days.   It started off with Kris & Gabe’s e-session with their vintage bikes and now Michelle and Linh took it up a notch higher with a pink balloon!

What an awesome idea!  I love how camera shy these two were when we started off but within 15 minutes, they were so at ease it’s remarkable.

After the hair & makeup trial with Giao Nguyen, we headed out to beautiful Santa Cruz for the engagement session.   We ended at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and nearby beach.

Really had a blast with Michelle & Linh on such a rare and beautiful day.

Enjoy!!

 

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Stanford University Church Wedding | Lily & Terry

As a photographer, I get easily excited with shooting new locations.  With Lily and Terry’s summer wedding at Stanford University beautiful Memorial Church, I was like a kid in a candy store!  This church is absolutely gorgeous inside and out.  No wonder it is such a desirable venue for weddings throughout the year.

I’ve shot a few engagement as well as some wedding day portrait sessions at Stanford throughout the years and always wished I had an opportunity to to shoot a wedding at the church.  Well when I met Lily and Terry for their consultation early last year and they said that their wedding ceremony was at Stanford Memorial Church, I secretly was jumping for joy!

We did their engagement session in San Francisco soon after the consultation and I was just dying for their wedding day to roll around.  With the busy summer wedding months, their day came around quickly enough.

When Giao and I got to the Sheraton hotel in Palo Alto, you would think they were nervous… you know, considering that it’s their wedding day an all but nope.  Everyone was pretty laid back and no one was in much of a rush.  Quite a change from the weddings that I’ve shot lately!

With the makeup done, we had a few minutes (very rare!) to take some bridal portraits of Lily before we headed out to Stanford University.

As my first experience shooting a wedding at Stanford’s beautiful church, I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful ceremony.  Even with the church’s many rules on where/how/when photographers can go for the entirety of the ceremony, we got some spectacular wedding ceremony pictures.  Having shot e-sesions AROUND Stanford several times before, we had little trouble finding some nice spots to do the portraits of entire bridal party.

Well enough introduction, here’s some pix from their wedding in Palo Alto.

VENDORS:

Hair & Makeup:  Giao Nguyen Hair & Makeup Artistry

Chair covers: Especially Yours Chair Covers

Reception: Sheraton Palo Alto

Wedding bouquet at Sheraton in Palo AltoBride getting ready for wedding at Stanford University ChurchBridesmaids helping bride get dress for Stanford weddingPortrait of bride at Stanford UniversityBridal portrait at Palo Alto SheratonPortrait of bride sitting on divanGroom getting ready for Stanford church weddingWedding flowersStanford Memorial church wedding picturePalo Alto Stanford University wedding portraitCouple walking down the isle after wedding ceremonyWedding portrait outside Stanford churchBridal portrait at Stanford UniversityWedding picture at Stanford Palo AltoPicture of bridal party at step of Stanford UniversityFirst dance at Sheraton wedding receptionWedding table greeting with coupleDancing at wedding receptionGuest dancing at Sheraton weddingWedding couple dancing at their reception

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San Francisco E-session | Victoria & Gabriel

Here’s an awesome e-session that of Victoria and Gabriel. Their wedding will be at the beautiful Oceano Hotel & Spa in Half Moon Bay later this year.

We started the shoot at Victoria’s home in Saratoga where we got the chance to take a few pix with her mom’s Lotus sports car!!  HOT!

We then headed to San Francisco to do the second half of the engagement session.  Coming along with us was David Ethridge from AVRFilms who was shooting their e-session video.

Here’s some of their e-pix.  Enjoy!

Engagement session in San FranciscoCouple in car kissing in San Francisco during e-sessionE-session at the Embarcadero in San FranciscoPortrait of couple from San Francisco e-sessionCouple in cable car on the Embarcadero during engagement sessionPortrait of couple kissing inside San Francisco cable carBakers Beach e-session portrait sessionCouple at San Francisco Bakers beach for their e-sessionPortrait session of couple behind Bakers beach bunkersCouple on bench at their e-session on Bakers beach

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