Archive for the “Weddings” Category

We realize that we are three months into a new year by now, but we want to share with you a few of our favorite images from 2009. We’ll continue the “Best of 2009″ theme and over the next few weeks we’ll share more of our very favorite 2009 images in a few different categories.

Here are some of our favorite portraits from all the beautiful weddings we photographed last year. The idea was to keep it down to only ten of our very favorites, but we just liked too many of them, and to avoid the dilemma we decided to show many more… :)

We’ll shortly be posting our favorite Engagement Photos and Bridal Portraits, so stay tuned!

We’ve been looking towards Anna and Gary’s wedding ever since they told us their wedding theme – Doctor Zhivago. How super creative and awesome is that? This winter wedding took place on a rainy Friday afternoon, but the uncooperative weather didn’t spoil the day even a tiny bit.

The day started at Campton Place Hotel where I probably spent way too much time photographing Anna’s awesome shoes :) and from there we made our way to City Hall where all the guests were ready for the ceremony to start, right on the Mayor’s balcony.

I just loooved this pair of Louboutins:

We decided to do all the portraits right inside of the City Hall because of the rain. We spent about an hour shooting in the halls, on the stairs, in the elevators, and even by the drinking fountains! Anna and Gary were great sports, ready to participate in any crazy ideas we had :)

Then we were off to a candlelit reception at Saint Francis Yacht Club. In line with the Doctor Zhivago wedding theme colorful matryoshka dolls were set as centerpieces at each table surrounded by brightly lit candles. The live piano music greatly added to the evening’s atmosphere. The Saint Francis Yacht Club wedding also included a beautiful ice sculpture of a Russian Orthodox Church in the cocktail area and the guests were treated to black caviar and other hors d’oeuvres.

That evening at Saint Francis Yacht Club had much delicious food and warm toasts. The reception ended with a traditional Russian folk dancing performance in which Anna was one of the stars.

Congratulations, Anna and Gary!!! We were honored to be a part of your day :)

Happy Friday, everyone! Have a wonderful weekend.

The winter months are usually a quiet time for weddings, however, this didn’t stop Anna and Gene from having a spectacular event this January at Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco. The day was rain free and we were able to take photos with the couple at a several different spots throughout the city. We had a great time taking photos on the Embarcadero, at Sir Frances Drake hotel, and of course, on Nob Hill.

I’ve known Gene since we went to college and it was an honor to be there. There was no shortage of gorgeous details, special lighting, and emotions for us to photograph on this big day. We loved shooting at Mark Hopkins hotel and this wedding was gorgeous in every way.

View from the top of Mark Hopkins hotel:

This beautiful Chuppah was provided by “Miracle Chuppahs”:

These guys really practiced their dance moves and the crowd was thrilled:

The toasts went on all night:

It was a pleasure to work with Bob of Video Madness: