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I know that the teaser we posted a couple of weeks ago left some of you very patiently waiting to see the rest of Ksusha and Vova’s Hawaii Trash the Dress Session :) And it’s ready now!

We love it when our clients have crazy original ideas for their shoots and we were beyond happy when Ksusha told us about the perfect jungle for their Trash the Dress photos. It usually gets dark very quickly among the tall trees and we made this our first location of the day. In fact, it was almost a bit spooky to be there, especially when we realized that some parts of Jurassic Park were actually filmed in that exact area :) I was trying to not let my imagination run completely wild, though, and I now believe the dinosaurs in these jungles became instinct after getting bitten to death by the super-vicious mosquitoes we encountered there! Soon after entering the jungle all of us simultaneously started doing some kind of strange dance/yoga movements while trying to scratch every part of our bodies (which were now itching). Mosquitoes also made it a bit hard to concentrate on shooting when all we wanted to do was scratch :)

Some of our faves:

Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot of Mike photographing Ksusha:

And some of the resulting images:

I was also working all available angles, be it in a mountain stream or not :)

And here’s what I saw:

Mike and his new yellow Crocs are inseparable:

The shot he was getting:

Our second location was at a tiny and cute beach not too far from Waikiki.

Throughout the session we got deeper and deeper into the water until we were eventually almost swimming while barely holding our cameras and lights above the water. It got dark quickly but we were having tons of fun and couldn’t stop shooting!

We looove Trash the Dress Shoots as the original idea behind them is to simply be free to see how creative we can get without worrying if the dress might get dirty. Dry cleaning it afterwords will usually take care of everything and still allow you to store the dress spotless.

We are glad to offer Trash the Dress photo sessions (also known as day-after-shoots) around San Francisco. The location need not be as tropical and we can simply roam around the city or countryside while creating amazing images with you dressed up in your wedding clothes. And the great thing is that we won’t have the time pressure usually found on a wedding day.

We’ve recently had the pleasure of taking wedding photos for Monica and Alex’s big day at Saint Veronica Catholic Church and the Hillsborough Racquet Club. In addition to the emotion-filled ceremony their day included an amazing duo of Brazilian musicians who filled the cocktail hour with delicious guitar and drumming sounds. Relatives from Brazil and places even farther away came to join in the celebration of this great day.

Monica and Alex’s portraits were taken at San Mateo’s Central Park. It’s a nice area for bride and groom photos and just minutes away from the Hillsborough Racquet Club. Congratulations to this lovely couple!! We had great pleasure in capturing your day.

We had lots of competition for shots of the cake cutting :)

We are now excited to share the photos from Ksusha and Vova’s destination wedding in Hawaii! It was a thrill to travel to the tropical islands and to be surrounded by pure paradise for their wedding day. Ksusha and Vova’s portraits at City Hall were photographed just about half a year ago and we loved joining them for this adventure as well.

This destination wedding took place at a private beach-side villa on the island of Oahu, just 15 minutes from Waikiki. The ceremony took place on the adjacent beach right in front of the villa and the wedding reception was held under a beautiful tent right on the giant backyard lawn.

Having the opportunity to be destination wedding photographers inspires us and allows us to push our creativity even further. We also shot a Trash the Dress session for this couple and we’ll be posting those photos on the blog soon. Please enjoy!

It was so awesome to see our past clients Anya and Ilya at this wedding. They were married in 2007 and this time there were three of them! Say hello to Tamar:

The villa’s courtyard and pool: