Winter is a great time to elope to San Francisco!  As long as you don’t mind the chance of cold rain and fog   While it is usually pretty nice weather wise around here, there are no guarantees.  Fortunately, Gina and Keith were willing to brave the elements for a few shots outdoors after their lovely ceremony inside City Hall.

OK, so I have to admit I’ve been lax in my highlighting of awesome vendors.  Maybe I should call this ‘Vendor of the Every Few Months if You’re Lucky’ .  I not unrealistic about my shortcomings…  But this time it was worth the wait.  One of our most favoritist people to work with is Kathryn Kenna

We’ve been fortunate to work with Kathryn on a few weddings of the past couple of years and have been so impressed by her skills.  Phenomenal handling of lots of details, calm under pressure, quick action to resolve problems…  all traits which are key for a good coordinator and all traits which Kathryn has in abundance.  Add to that her great personality with a down to earth vibe and you’ve got yourself one fabulous person to have on your team.

In that rainy day shot above, the anonymous hand holding up Jen’s dress belongs to Kathryn

Just finished doing the post production on our 2nd most recent engagement session (our most recent one will take a few more days, so stay tuned…  For this session, we Katy, Todd, Lisa and I dodged raindrops around the east bay and had some photo-fun in the process.  Oh and I can’t leave Maggie out of the description!  Maggie is a sweet pup adopted not too long ago and she had a starring role in this e-session.  Such a trooper, with all the little stickers in her hair and paws, she played it all off like a pro    Enjoy!

Tara and Steve were married last week in front of their closest family and friends at the San Francisco City Hall.  Eloping from our chilly neighbor to the north, Tara & Steve started their wedding day at the amazing Fairmont Heritage Place : Ghirardelli Square with some delicious (looking) cupcakes from Kara’s Cupcakes and a glass of Veuve Clicquot.  Luxurious start to the day, don’t you think.  After a limo hustled us off to City Hall, the ceremony began.  A quick ‘I do’ , ‘I do, too’ and a kiss was all it took to officially wed our happy couple.  There’s a bit in the ceremony that they do at city hall that says ‘nothing we do here today marries you, you are already are married in your hearts’ (I’m paraphrasing), but I think that is such a great sentiment. Especially these days when people are together for years before they get married, often live together before getting married and really have already created a life together.  But, there is a shift in perspective when we decide that we are married. I digress…   After city hall, we ran around town under threatening skies that never did rain, going from the Ferry Building to Baker Beach to Ghiradelli Square (for banana splits. Such a wonderful day

Still loving the black and white around here   Today we have some photos from our recent engagement session with Kristy & Erik.  It was a cool day here in the city, but as you can hopefully see, we still had a great shoot.

Our good friend and wedding industry colleague is putting on a DIY flower workshop.  We’ve had clients take her workshops in the past and received rave reviews, so think about it…