Celebrating 15 Years of Anna Wu Photography!
Anna Wu Photography is fifteen! It has been a wild journey full of highs and lows, and yet I am here today, still reveling in the fact that this childhood hobby of mine has transformed into such a full life and career.
To celebrate the occasion, I invited my past clients to help create a gallery of their favorite photographs from over the years. I rented a studio space for the event, and I recruited my amazing friends to help me put together the party.
I am incredibly grateful to be celebrating fifteen years in business, and I am grateful to each and every one of you who have been a part of this journey!
Here is my incredible team of friends who are also sometimes clients! Thank you to each of these folks for making the party possible.
I love seeing this collection of images, all chosen by my past clients. Do-Hee helped me to put together gallery placards, pamphlets, and an exhibit guide which we displayed on iPads. You can view the whole gallery and the descriptions of the images in the pdf here.
On another table, I brought some of my old wedding album samples, as well as magazines where my work has been featured in print!
Of course I forgot to take any other photos during the event.
Thank you to Josh for playing florist and assembling this backdrop of jasmine flowers from their back yard! This made for an excellent iPhone photo booth for all the attendees!
I assigned Alex playlist duties, and he took his job wonderfully seriously. He took it upon himself to craft a playlist to the fifteen years theme, hand selecting top hits from each year in chronological order and filtering for appropriateness and vibe. Love. You can enjoy the playlist yourself on spotify!
Michael and Cassie also helped so much with all of the party setup, including the gallery and the charcuterie spreads.
My brother and my mom also stopped by the party and brought the cake and the pastries with them! And Courtney brought pizzas for the whole setup crew. It was all such a true team effort.
Thank you to all of my friends, clients, and supporters who came to celebrate!
I also had a collection of prizes that I gave out each half hour, and the way to win them was to fill out a sheet of trivia questions about Anna Wu Photography!
Dan and Jeri were the perfect quiz masters. After they filled out their sheet, I gave them the answer key, and they graded everyone else’s. But Dan answered the first question exactly! The question: what was my first paid photography gig? And the answer: photographing Defining Movement’s dance showcase at Duke, for which I was paid $50. Dan and Jeri won the native flowers puzzle from Stephanie!
Ho-Chie won a set of greeting cards from my friend Pam for having the closest answer to my first wedding photographed– it was in Ohio, and he guessed Indianapolis. David and Patty won this cactus print by answering the farthest wedding I’ve ever photographed, which was in Japan.
There was a whole rock-paper-scissors-off for this next prize, my Pointe of View ballerina book. The question was the exact amount raised by the book’s kickstarter ($12,213).
Then Stephanie won a Crispy sweatshirt made by Do-Hee by guessing how many photographs I took at my last full wedding. Her guess: 2100. The answer: 2175!
And finally, not pictured, Michael and Cassie won an AirTag for guessing the total number of blog posts published to date. Their guess: 1200. Actual answer: 1415. Over fourteen hundred blog posts!
And in keeping with tradition, I of course had some wonderful baked goods from my friend Joyce of Bake Sum. She made me both a custom lychee raspberry cake and four of her Bake Sum boxes.
Love!
At the end of the party, the gallery participants all got to take home their prints, fresh off the wall and ready to mount back in their own homes!
Love. Thank you to everyone again for your well wishes and for celebrating this wonderful life and career with me!
Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco. She creates beautiful, soft, and timeless imagery while capturing the most fleeting of moments. View her work at annawu.com, follow her daily adventures on instagram, and contact her to book your own session today.
