Working from the Bay Area is delightful! (especially when Los Angeles is burning!!!!) My mom and I have been running all over the Bay Area looking at wedding venues. I have my favorite…. {fingers crossed} Frankly, I’m getting tired of looking and do not want to stress myself out already! Couple more spots are maybe on the drive by list … we’ll see. Heading back to LA next week so we’d better get a move on!

Jen and Eric’s San Francisco wedding was an absolutely gorgeous affair. From their traditional church ceremony at the breath taking St. Dominic’s Church to their ultra stylized reception venue, The Westin St. Francis at Union Square they pulled out all the stops. It was so much fun to get to use the city landscapes for their portraits- I’ve grown so used to having fields and flowers to rely on. I love how urban their groups shots turned out- something different!

Thanks to the lovely Lili Durkin and Karen Santos for coming out and assisting me- it was a long day but we ROCKED it!

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Thank you for all the well-wishes… you guys are the best!

So there was this venue that I had bookmarked for, oh, I don’t know, a year or so- that just had the perfect feel for what I wanted my wedding day to look like. Organic, Rustic, Elegant… Anthropologie….. So, of course, being a wedding photographer, I am well aware of how quickly things book up- so I sent an email off to the owner about 2.5 seconds after I had this ring on my finger. What do ya know! BOOKED UP for all of 2010. At first I was bummed, discouraged, a little down. But that’s okay, no one ever said wedding planning was easy and as a book my mom and I purchased yesterday states, “Don’t aim for a perfect wedding- aim for a wonderful wedding.” I have a first hand view of how much work, thought, and stress goes into planning a wedding day so I guess I should have expected bumps! Looking at a pretty neat looking space later today up in Marin – wish me luck!

I started a new category up there called, A Photographers Wedding. Sorry if this totally doesn’t interest you at all but this blog is a personal space for me and I think this next year my head is definitely going to be in planning mode and how can I not share things with you all? So, if this bores you- I’ll understand .. just scroll down.

Also, after next weekends Napa wedding I’ll be heading back to Los Angeles so be expecting a lot of blog catch up. If I know some of you, and I KNOW I know some of you, you’ve been refreshing the page daily waiting to see some of your images.

Because a blog post is better with pictures- here are some highlights from Becky and Adam’s portrait time a little earlier in the summer.

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On a beach, by a bridge, under a beautiful sun streaked bright pink sky, my Timmy of 6 and a half years, assured me that I was the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with and I couldn’t have been happier to agree! Didn’t he just knock it out of the park with this ring?!??!

Erin and Steve are no strangers to this blog – their downtown engagement shoot and wedding pictures have been both posted in the last 6 months! Their wedding day timeline didn’t allow us to get as many portraits of them as they wanted so we set up an additional bridal shoot and took the light and timeline into our own hands! Here are some of my favorites… aren’t they just ridiculously good looking???