Every wedding album is a bit of a time capsule, but it feels extra special to be able to look back at Christine and Bobby’s wedding, which happened in 2020 before the pandemic. Mere months ago, we were still able to have full, un-distanced weddings! What a world. I’m so glad these two were able…
I love how this suite of wedding albums turned out for Priyanka and Karthik’s mult-day Indian wedding. They opted for a medium album with custom calligraphy on the cover, as well as a small album with the standard font and a few mini albums as well, all clad in a beautiful light green luxe linen….
It was so lovely to see my friends Jeri and Dan for their engagement session. These days it feels like a surprise when anything actually goes according to plan, and this was a date that we had scheduled months and months in advance. Luckily, it was a beautiful, smoke-free day, and the San Jose Municipal…
I am so honored to be able to document this family through the years! I began photographing Joyce and Keven seven years ago for their engagement and wedding, and we’ve since added two little ones — and all their grandparents — to the mix. We had a socially distanced session over in the Berkeley Marina,…
It was so fun to photograph this engagement-turned-surprise-proposal for Pre and Nav. Earlier this year, Nav asked Pre to marry him, and she joyfully said yes. It was a beautiful, if low-key proposal, given the circumstances of the pandemic. As they planned for their engagement portraits with me, Nav decided that he would love to…
I usually don’t get around to posting these recaps until the end of the following month, which is quite unfortunate, because 2020 is quickly outpacing my ability to remember what these past realities were like. But here goes, a look back to July, a month in which we took four different outdoor excursions around California…
I love revisiting a wedding day in the form of a beautiful wedding album. We captured Evangel and Edwin’s wedding story in this small, 8″ album covered with a champagne fabric. Take a little peek inside at some of our favorite images from their Casa Real celebration! Anna Wu is a wedding photographer based in…
Yannie and Howard met through mutual friends in their neighborhood and their church. They became friends first, hanging out here and there for a year until a group trip to the Winter Olympics in Korea brought them closer and provided the perfect setting for Howard to ask Yannie to be his girlfriend. When it came…
A couple months ago, my dear friend Do-Hee hired me to photograph some portraits for her brother Shawn, who just graduated from medical school. Despite the global pandemic, or perhaps even more so because of it, we’re all being asked to celebrate our wins and mark special moments in whatever safe, thoughtful, creative ways we…
From the start of wedding planning, Candace and Derek sat down and had a conversation with each other about their values and what they wanted their wedding to represent. They wrote a vision statement that stated their commitment to celebrate their relationship, their family, and their friends, and to let go of materialism and patriarchal…
Welcome to the June, 2020 recap. The month felt different, more somber perhaps, than the earlier Bon Appetit youtube videos/ gourmet food projects/ Tiger King portion of quarantine. My attention turned to the struggle for social justice, while protests against racism and police violence spread across the country and the world. For the month of…
Time for the May recap! Still staying at home, mostly, with a couple biking trips around town and one short excursion up to wine country, all very carefully done with only remote hiking and curbside pickups even though restaurants had already reopened in Sonoma. Otherwise, it was all about videochat gatherings, gourmet quarantine, and sewing…