Victoria & Vaughn | Ruby Hill Golf Club | Bay Area Wedding Photography

Victoria & Vaughn | Ruby Hill Golf Club | Bay Area Wedding Photography

Victoria and Vaughn are an absolute delight to be around. Victoria radiates an infectious enthusiasm, and her expressions carry across entire fields, while Vaughn has the kindest smile with a touch of mischief in his eyes. They first met seven years ago at work and built a friendship over lunch chats and work projects where they talked about…

Hiking the Bay | Bothe-Napa, Redwood Regional, Cataract Falls, & Point Lobos
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Hiking the Bay | Bothe-Napa, Redwood Regional, Cataract Falls, & Point Lobos

I’m not a very outdoorsy person by nature. Lacking in athleticism, having no survival skills, and having a general dislike for insects makes me pretty useless for most intense outdoor activities. But walking through pretty nature? Yes. That I love. Back in March and April, I got to go on four different hikes around the…

Lindsay & Eric | The French Laundry | Surprise Proposal Photography
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Lindsay & Eric | The French Laundry | Surprise Proposal Photography

I absolutely love photographing proposals. I love being in on the secret and helping with the planning. But most of all, I love capturing the emotions of the moment when it all comes together. When Eric contacted me about proposing to his girlfriend at The French Laundry, I jumped at the chance to help capture it….

Stephanie, Pianist | San Francisco Musician Portraits
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Stephanie, Pianist | San Francisco Musician Portraits

Stephanie is a beautiful pianist studying down in Southern California. She contacted me for a portrait session because she fell in love with my ballerina series. We met up in San Francisco while she was visiting on a break from school and captured these elegant portraits.   Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based…

Christine & Yang | Dogpatch Wineworks | San Francisco Wedding Photography

Christine & Yang | Dogpatch Wineworks | San Francisco Wedding Photography

Christine and Yang met in a bar on a snowy night in Boston. After a few dances together, they exchanged numbers and the courtship began. Their first date followed soon after, when a one-hour coffee turned into a six-hour date. They had a natural chemistry, and they would soon find themselves falling for each other: Yang…

Stephanie & Dalen | Legion of Honor | San Francisco Wedding Photography

Stephanie & Dalen | Legion of Honor | San Francisco Wedding Photography

Dalen sat in front of Stephanie at a new church they were both visiting one day, and they met during the unusually long ‘meet and greet’ time after the service. Stephanie left the service thinking she’d never see Dalen again…until he walked by her a few blocks from her home. They ended up walking together to Trader…

Lindsay of Frances Lane | San Francisco Portraits

Lindsay of Frances Lane | San Francisco Portraits

If you saw my birthday party back in January, you might have fallen in love with some of the beautiful dinnerware that I rented from Lindsay’s company, Frances Lane. The She has goblets in every color imaginable, one-of-a-kind platters, and vintage plates and bowls all come together to create the prettiest tablescapes. I met up with Lindsay in…

Kristina & Peter | Alameda | Bay Area Maternity Portraits
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Kristina & Peter | Alameda | Bay Area Maternity Portraits

It’s been five years since I last photographed Kristina and Peter at their beautiful wine country wedding. They are now expecting their first child, a baby girl due in April, and I was delighted to meet up with them again to photograph them as they embark on the next phase of their lives together. We walked…

Gem & Mike | Casa Real | Pleasanton Wedding Photography

Gem & Mike | Casa Real | Pleasanton Wedding Photography

Mawwage! Mawwage is wot bwings us togeder today. Yes, the ceremony from The Princess Bride. A (Jewish) friend dressed in full Catholic bishop regalia kicked off the wedding with his hilarious rendition of the ceremony, performed with a straight face all the way through. This happened after the bride walked down the aisle with a…

Adrienne & Jenton | Purple Orchid | Livermore Wedding Photography

Adrienne & Jenton | Purple Orchid | Livermore Wedding Photography

Adrienne and Jenton are two peas in a pod. Their quirky energy and generous sense of humor always leaves them laughing together. Their wedding day was graced with a million beautiful details hand crafted by Adrienne and a beautiful first dance kicked off with singing from the groom himself. It’s hard to imagine two people better suited…

Jenny & Adam | Buena Vista Winery | Sonoma Wedding Photography

Jenny & Adam | Buena Vista Winery | Sonoma Wedding Photography

They first met at business school in Philadelphia, where they founded a startup together, and they later moved to California, the land of startups, where Jenny joined the team at Pebble and Adam joined Google. The two of them were full of smiles on their wedding day. The lovely Buena Vista Winery served as a perfect…