It has been such a joy to work with Annsa and Arvind for the past few years. Despite having to postpone and postpone– and ultimately cancel– their 2020 wedding, Annsa and Arvind have been unceasingly gracious and wonderful to be with. I am so glad to still be able to document their love story, even…
At the end of November, Alex and I spent two wonderful weeks driving down south, staying in Monterey, Los Alamos, and then Alhambra for a week. First, a little stop in Santa Cruz. There was a cute little street market in downtown Monterey, near our historic hotel where we checked in for two nights. The…
What a whirlwind it’s been since the end of last year. I’m circling back now to recap the last two months of 2022. We start it off with a 100-day celebration for Baby Valente! In November, we had such a beautiful engagement session, and we pulled together all the details for our December ceremony too. …
Let’s take a peek back at October of last year. Better late than never? We started off with a visit to Reeve in Healdsburg. Really enjoyed seeing all the special types of garlic at the Healdsburg Farmers Market. We got two to try, and they did taste different! Little Saint, before it switched over in…
Congratulations to Amy and Sumedh on their beautiful San Francisco City Hall wedding! So many friends and family were able to attend for their civil ceremony, and then we roamed around for some portraits afterwards. Here are a few favorites below. Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco, California. She…
I loved being part of James and Jonathan’s wedding at the Hangar1 Distillery in Alameda. I am thrilled to see the story of that beautiful day now perfectly captured in this heirloom wedding album. JJ and JC chose a green luxe linen and gold foil debossing for the cover, and they opted for the nice…
Each year, I collect small gifts along my travels and compile them into a holiday gift set for my wedding clients. It’s my way of sharing a small part of my year with my couples when they’ve shared such an important part of theirs with me. And this year, we had the added distinction of…
2022 was certainly filled with significant milestones. In May, Alex and I got engaged on a hammock overlooking the Mendocino Coast. In December, we got married in a redwood grove, surrounded by our closest family. And in between, we enjoyed so many lovely moments with our friends and family: my fifteen-year business anniversary, two midwest…
From Michigan to Ohio and on to Pennsylvania, our Midwest baseball tour reached its final city in Pittsburgh. We stayed in a very cute old airbnb in an industrial part of The Strip. Spotted on the street nearby, in Chinese: can’t return to the past, can’t see the future. We swung by the City of…
Straight from the Michigan football game, we rushed off to Cleveland to make it to the ballpark in time to pick up this giveaway: a Steven Kwan t-shirt and a Franmil Reyes bobblehead! Reyes unfortunately was traded off the Cleveland team before they even gave out these bobbleheads… so the team added the Kwan shirts…
Sixteen adults, three kids, and a pup. We roamed a small park in Fremont and photographed every permutation and combination of this four-generation family, but no matter what grouping or order you put them in, what comes out is love. Such a joy to document these special gatherings of family over the holidays! First, the…
Yes or Yes! This was such a sweet surprise proposal. Darren knew that Yue would suspect that a proposal was coming, because they had already gone ring shopping together. Plus, she knew they had a reservation for The French Laundry where they had dined once before. But he still had some surprises up his sleeve….