Tina and Bryan first met eight years ago. Their first date took them all around Land’s End on a chat and a walk that basically never ended. For their wedding day, they chose to be married at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, a nod to their mutual love of Japan. They also paid tribute to Bryan’s…
Lakshmi and Jaxon met in Denver, though they both hail from the San Francisco Bay Area. To meet Lakshmi is to be instantly won over by her, as Jaxon’s own friends will tell you. (We might like her more than you now, they confess). She is the warm-hearted doctor with a big laugh and he…
M and D are the sweetest souls who met in Palo Alto and immediately felt at ease with each other. Their wedding day was full of personalized touches, including getting ready together at home under the supervision of their cat Butter, a nod to their careers as academics with some keynote presentations during their reception,…
At last, Tara and Potter’s wedding day has arrived! Tara and Potter were living here in the Bay Area when they initially planned for their 2020 wedding here in San Francisco, but the pandemic took them back to their hometown in Canada and then back to NYC, the city where they first met and fell…
Nicola and Zach got engaged just months before the pandemic hit. While they conceded that a large celebration would not happen right away, they were determined to be wed, and despite a second lockdown in California, they managed to tie the knot at the end of 2020, on the side of a highway, with a…
Emily and Andrew wanted to share the magic of wine country with their friends and family for their wedding celebrations. Emily grew up in the Bay Area and visited the area frequently, and Andrew has come to love it too. They both live in Massachusetts, but their families flew from all over the country to…
Aileen and Bryan each previously lived in San Francisco, but they never met while they were here. Instead, they met in Salt Lake City, during the pandemic, no less. And now, they both traveled back to San Francisco for the first time together, and with their families in tow, to be wed. We started the…
On Twosday, that is, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, Stefanie and Terence headed to the edge of San Francisco with just two friends and their photographer (me) to be wed along the California Coast. It was a truly blustery day, with strong winds whipping around, and eventually, even pea-sized hail flying down from the sky. But…
Chariya and Dimartin both grew up in the Bay Area, loosely connected to each other through their Cambodian families. It was years before they connected more directly and began a chat conversation that never ended. Though they now live together in Los Angeles, they opted to return to San Francsico for a beautiful City Hall…
Anna and Tim met nearly a decade ago as engineering students at Purdue, their paths crossing many times before they ever struck up a relationship, right at the end of their senior year. After graduation, they both found themselves in Anna’s home state of Texas, and they settled into the trenches while Tim completed his…
Having already made it through over a year of pandemic postponements for this wedding, an atmospheric river of earlier-than-usual rain wasn’t going to put a damper on this wedding day. The original 2020 plan was for a church wedding followed by a Chinese banquet, but that was reimagined into a beautiful little ceremony in the…
What a magical feeling to be amidst the redwoods, the giants towering over us, a symbolic reminder of our place in the universe and a literal reminder of resilience through adversity. Michelle and Tim and their closest family members traveled from all over the country to be wed at Armstrong Woods, which had only just…