We’ve been looking forward to Jen and Jimmy’s wedding for quite a while now. A beautiful venue in the middle of the forest + a super cool relaxed couple in love = the recipe for a perfect wedding!

It all started at the super fun Hotel Durant, which had lamps in a shape of smoking pipes – so Berkeley :). The preparations were a ton of fun with Mike covering the guys (fun times folding handkerchiefs, then happily drinking beer) while I was doing my best to keep with the girls running from one room to another getting ready and trying not to forget anything :)

Girls arrive at the Brazil Room:

I absolutely loved Jen’s bouquet – so simple and beautiful!

These guys had the best possible light for their ceremony – the sun just went behind the tall trees of Tilden Park. The ceremony was one of the most emotional ones I’ve ever witnessed – Jen and Jimmy were laughing and crying without being afraid to break some traditional rules of proper ceremonies. This made the ceremony so personal, so them, that all the guests (as well as both photographers) were laughing and crying with them:

It became dark shortly after the ceremony and most of the portraits, family pictures, and bride and groom shots had to be taken in pretty much complete darkness. It didn’t prevent anybody from having fun, however :)

One thing that I didn’t mention yet is that besides it being pitch black it got to be really, really cold! And cold as I was wearing my down jacket by the time of the portraits, Jen was a real trooper in her strapless dress and didn’t even complain once!

Jen’s sister made an awesome toast and I love all the emotion in this picture:

Congratulations Jen and Jimmy! Hope you’re having an awesome time in Hawaii!!!

Natasha

Wow! How do you describe a wedding spanning 12+ hours with hundreds of wedding guests and enough celebration to possibly fill up a whole week? That’s exactly what happened for Shadieh and George’s big day and we were stoked to be there to capture it.

The ceremony took place at the gorgeous Mission Dolores in San Francisco and their grand reception was at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame. The reception was filled with so many performances and so much dancing through the night that it felt like we were at a music concert. Some favorites from their day:

There was much celebrating even before the ceremony at Mission Dolores:

This church is spectacular:

We loved witnessing this series at the start of the ceremony:

Shadieh and George were riding in style on this day:

The Hyatt Burlingame wedding reception looked amazing:

Watching the performances was fascinating:

Airborne groom!

It was AWESOME to see our past clients Angelica and Yuriy! Shadieh was Angelica’s maid-of-honor and this time Angelica was the matron of honor:

Congratulations to Shadieh and George!! We loved being with you on this important day. Thank you for inviting us to capture it for you.

We are so excited to have Rimma and Mark’s destination wedding in Mexico featured this week on Project Wedding! This is the second time one of our weddings has been featured on PW’s “Real Wedding of the Week” and we are thrilled to share it with a wider audience. Rimma and Mark’s wedding was truly unique in so many ways and we had a blast being with them on this important excursion.

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The photos from Rimma and Mark’s destination wedding have been made into a full slideshow and we welcome you to view it. Have a great Monday everyone!!