I’m so incredibly proud to be a part of the Amber Collective, a community for Asian American women creatives in the Bay Area. We started this as a group of five women who are grateful to have formed community with each other and wanted to help foster that for other Asian American women as well. In…
The Pearl is a unique urban loft space in the Dogpatch, SF with soaring ceilings and a wonderful roof deck. I was happy to be on board as their photographer for the second year in a row when they held their open house last month. Take a peek at the event and all the wonderful…
We unknowingly chose the warmest day of the year so far for Alyssa and Mark’s engagement session, but we dodged the crowds to capture these beautiful sun-kissed engagement portraits. And we even got some extra local flavor in one of the shots, as you’ll see below. :) Congrats, Alyssa & Mark! Looking forward to your…
When Grant started thinking about proposing to Glenna, he knew he wanted to include her two kids in the proposal too. They would all be traveling together to San Francisco for the first time, a place that Glenna has always wanted to visit. And so Grant trusted the kids to be in on the surprise…
We are coming up on Tiffany and Greg’s one-year anniversary from their New Year’s Eve wedding last year, so now was the perfect time to do one more photo session in San Francisco and also get some portraits for their holiday cards this year. We endured plenty of wind at Sutro Baths, but it turned…
We already got a sneak peek of Natalie and Ford since they combined their engagement session with their housemates Lauren and Kodie, but today we get to see a bit more from these two! They are high school sweethearts who met in Virginia and then went to school together at UVA. They then lived together…
Say hello to Lauren and Kodie and their labradoodle Royce, whom everyone notes looks a whole lot like Kodie. Lauren and Kodie met back in their hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Lauren eventually followed Kodie out to San Francisco after he got a job here. They just recently gained two housemates who are also an…
Their first date was at a boba shop, and then Dennis decided to show up to Jennifer’s dance class every week until she agreed to be his girlfriend. I suppose she found it endearing, because she said yes to being his girlfriend, and then said yes again to being his wife. They were wed in…
Tien and Jeremy’s love story is a global tale for the modern age. Jeremy is Korean but grew up in Michigan and later lived in Korea and California. Tien is Taiwanese but grew up in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Malaysia before going to college at the University of Michigan… where Jeremy also went! But they…
Margaret and Lance are both incredibly sweet and are secretly goofballs on the inside. They’ve been together for five years, with plenty of adventures in that time. They especially love national parks and got engaged at Glacier National Park last year. They decided to be wed at the ever-elegant Legion of Honor, an art museum…
The universe conspired together with Luciana’s sister Paula and her friend Augusto to set up this incredibly sweet love story. Luciana and her sister Paula live in Brazil, but Paula was visiting San Francisco when she unfortunately injured her back and was sent to emergency spinal surgery. Paula was on the next flight out. Wanting…
These two Aussies met working at their local supermarket nearly eight years ago, and they have been together ever since. When they imagined getting married, they knew that they wanted to skip the fuss of throwing a full wedding and they just wanted to fly across the world and elope somewhere in America. It would…