“It’s lucky to rain on your wedding day!” …I told Mariko + Jason, as the rain sprinkled on us as we carefully made our way down the stairs for a Lyon Street Steps engagement. Then they mentioned they also had a flat tire on the way to the session. “Yeah, that’s lucky too!” I said. […]

And he said “My only regret is not proposing to you sooner so that you could have had the wedding of your dreams.” And just like that, in came the tears. Daniel cried. His mom cried. Yvonne cried. I cried. It was a sentence that encapsulated so much of 2020, a year filled with so […]

I had met Bao and Kato this past February before allll the things went down. It was a cold winter day and I just remember seeing Bao walk into Philz for the first time and just absolutely feeling instant warmth from her bubbly personality and big smile, along with Kato following shortly behind her, tall, […]

Talk about making lemonade out of lemons. Kim + Earth, like so many 2020 couples, had to scrap their original wedding plans this year. It’s been a rough year for couples thus far; filled with anxiety, uncertainty, and confusion. But the glimmer of beauty in all of this, is that couples like Kim + Earth […]

Have you ever taken a stroll around San Francisco and stopped suddenly to breathe in its beauty? To admire the ornate and colorful Victorian buildings, to notice the iconic way the Transamerica building pierces the sky, to observe how the fog looms over the west side of the city, or the joyful pops of bougainvillea […]

I take a look up at the sky. Not a cloud in sight, mostly sunny with highs in the 80s. Around the time of July in SF, I usually expected Karl the Fog’s friendly, yet pesky overbearing presence to be looming over the west side of the city. Karl had effectively photobombed a few portrait […]

The moment you walk into city hall on a Friday afternoon, you always feel an immediate rush of excitement. The hall is buzzing with photographers and soon-to-be-married couples stumbling around in high heels and long white dresses, waiting to squeeze in photos before their names are called by a judge. An SF city hall wedding is […]

From the moment I met Celeste and Zakkai over Facetime, I felt an instant warmth and connection. Their chemistry, sense of humor, charisma, and kindness towards each other was such a sweet thing to see. They had a kind of love towards each other that felt reminiscent of old souls of another time. So it’s […]

It was a beautiful warn autumn day at Saratoga Springs. The weather had been extremely fickle lately; hot as 80 degrees one day, winds as high as 20 mph another, but today was perfect, perfect for a Saratoga Springs wedding. Today, Amanda and Richard IV were making their love official, today they were getting married. […]