• Choco Studio Photo of Mike and Natasha
    Welcome to Choco Studio's Blog!

    Thanks for visiting!  This is the blog of Mike and Natasha's journalistic wedding photography and creative portraits.  You'll see all the latest event photos as well as catch up with our personal lives.  We're based in the San Francisco Bay Area and if you'd like to see our full wedding portfolio, please click on the Website link above.

    For surfing around this blog you can find all the categories and navigation at the bottom of this page.  Please enjoy your visit and we hope to hear from you in the comments!  Check out our Facebook page and join:
    Choco Studio Facebook Group

Yet another another new album just came in and we were excited to deliver it. These hand-made magazine style albums are fully customizable and we love seeing how different they turn out with all the different cover options that we have available. The books can be horizontal, vertical, or square and they come in a range of sizes and dimensions. Sometimes it’s hard even to choose between them :)

This one has the Wedgewood and Femme Noire cover options. I just love it!!

Album Photo with Wedgewood and Femme Noire Covers

Finao Album Photo

The album has been delivered already to the happy client and we took these shots just before sending it out. The comments we heard back were “Wow, it looks amazing!” and wished it was extended it into an even bigger album. We love happy clients!

Natasha

Comments Leave a comment to show some love! »

Christine and Albert are going to have their wedding celebration later this year in Boston where they live right now. They both graduated from Stanford University and wanted to have their engagement session there so they can relive the moments when they met. It was a pretty amazing day for light all around the Stanford campus and we had a blast exploring it.

Engagement Photo

Stanford Engagement Session

Portraits shot for an engagement session at Stanford University

Palm Drive Portrait

The sky really started to change colors just after sunset over Palm Drive:

Palm Drive Photo

Tomorrow we’re going to post photos of a new hand-made album we just finished and delivered to a client. It looks pretty sweet and we’re definitely excited about it :)

Hope you had a wonderful July 4th celebration, everyone!!

Mike

Comments Leave a comment to show some love! »

The wedding we shot in May at Santana Row is now featured on Style Unveiled Real Weddings! Style Unveiled is a wedding planning website which has inspiration for brides and grooms from Seattle to Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Heather created a beautiful photo layout with info about Teresa and Gary’s wedding day. It was so interesting to see the wedding we photographed from a different angle. You can read all about this couple’s story as well as how they approached their event on this wedding planning website.

Click on the image below to read all about it:

Santana Row Wedding Photos Style Unveiled

Congratulations to Teresa and Gary, once again!! It was such a thrill to capture your big day. It was also great to learn more about you guys with this feature.

We’d love to hear what you thought of this wedding, dear blog readers, so if you have a comment please leave it below!

Mike

Comments Leave a comment to show some love! »

Last weekend we were thrilled to shoot an amazingly beautiful Afghan wedding at the Marriott Hotel in Fremont. We had such a great time getting to know and working with Maira and Aref. We knew from the beginning that they were really into photography and they also put so much thought into the details of their wedding. The Afghan wedding photos we captured on this day included traditional dances, a special ceremony with henna, amazing tabla drumming, and much more.

Natasha and I love working with clients who are into really creative and artistic photographs and we love being inspired by them. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves:

Fremont Marriott Hotel Elevator Wedding Photo

Love the elevators at the Fremont Marriott!

Marriott hotel in Fremont on Wedding Day

Wedding shoes

Wedding dress detail

Wedding Dress in full

Wedding rings

Calla lilies wedding bouquet

Calla lilies and wedding rings

Maira, bride getting ready

Putting on wedding shoes

Wedding Shoes

We couldn’t get enough of these shoes!

Aref, groom getting ready

pinning the boutonniere

Maira, bride portrait in veil

Aref, groom, portrait

Portrait of Bride in the hallways of the Fremont Marriott

Having fun in the hallways of the Fremont Marriott.

Marriott Fremont Hallway

Bride and Groom portrait

Reception table decorations flower centerpiece

Afghan stage decorations at the Fremont Marriott

Afghan ceremony details

Cake at Fremont Marriott

Table setting at Fremont Marriott

Giant vase with flowers at wedding

Tabla drumming at Afghan wedding

Traditional Afghan wedding dancing

Traditional Afghan wedding dancing

Boy at wedding reception

Traditional Afghan wedding dresses

Afghan ceremony

Afghan Henna painting at weding

Afghan traditional dancing

Aref and Maira, Bride and Groom dancing at Fremont Marriott

Table settings and guests at Fremont Marriott

Black and White Bride and Groom Dancing

bride and groom dancing at Afghan wedding reception at Fremont Marriott

bride and groom dancing at Afghan wedding reception at Fremont Marriott

We took photos of Maira and Aref’s fun engagement session on the Embarcadero just prior to the wedding day and these will be going up soon. Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

Mike

Comments 1 Comment »

 Page 1 of 63  1  2  3  4  5 » ...  Last » 
','

'); } ?>