Bay Area Wedding

2021 // Moments in Review

What an incredible privilege it is to get an all encompassing pass; to get real close, to be in every aspect of the day; from the anticipation in the room hiding away, to the very last song. The ability to roam the aisle during the ceremony, witness it from every angle. The dream and strive that is to photograph in so many different ways within one wedding day; photographing the home that you have chosen for your wedding day, photographing its exterior, its rolling hills that surrounding it, the environment and something as simple as the weather that too, is a guest on your wedding day. Photographing the scenery in which your wedding resides.

Photographing the many people in a documentary mold; them mid laugh, mid hugging embrace, mid swoon that is all over the entire face. Searching for moments where these people are at their most relaxed, most themselves, I strive to search for it until I capture it. Documenting to induce nostalgia and memorialize these humans so that you can show your kids the many deeply loved ones that made you the person you are.

Even a simple and strong portrait of you on your wedding day that will only be more and more loved as you grow older. All the photographs in a collection, from portraits to moments, the notion we strive for is to have all the aspects of a wedding day flow in a story being told, one that takes anyone right back to what it felt like to live through that day.

There are photographs that will only grow more meaning with time, ones that you oversaw the first time you viewed your gallery of photographs, and have come to cherish even more the 30th time you’ve taken a look through. There are photographs that you feel proud of immediately, seeing your creativity of planning come to fruition. There are ones that you don’t even know how beautiful you are and you only see it when you look back and youth feels reminiscent and are so glad that you preserved that youth in a single photograph. There are ones you can only appreciate in many years time, not noticing the smallest joys or meaning until much later. Not realizing how important some of the documentation is until many years later. How gratefulness floods for the photographs being captured at all. Different photographs will be cherished in different chapters in your life. Some photographs that might have been easily overlooked, are now newly favorited as you begin to see the many different perspectives of your wedding day in new ways as your own self shifts and grows with new perspective.

I am filled with joy and humbleness to get to put this journal post together year after year. I look forward to it all year. I truly enjoy going through each gallery all over again and finding moments that to me, that are not deemed as grand or special or ones that you would hang on your walls, but ones that truly bring the entire collection of photographs together. These photographs are all what make up a gallery, if not is the gallery in my opinion. The aspects of life that last, the human nature of those we love that won’t always be. The fleeting moments of the in between grand moments. Moments of long awaited affection, joy radiating, and the quiet moments too. These are the types of photographs I endlessly search for on wedding days, ones that often are overlooked, and only grow meaning with time. Ones that need to be looked at a little longer. Ones that need to be grown into. Ones that I need to carefully be there for, with wide eyes, finger on the shutter, ready to press before the moment is gone. Ones that I treat as if they were my own.

If it wasn’t for the incredible, down to earth, so warm and thoughtful couples that I had the gift to document and create with this year, none of these photographs would have been made possible! Thank you to all of those who trusted me and gave me this gift, I do not take this privilege lightly.

Caroline & Mahdi // Stable Cafe Wedding

I cried exactly three times at this wedding. M’s family couldn’t make it due to a certain travel ban but watching him beaming the entire day none the less and hugging every one of C’s family as if his own truly moved and inspired me. The second time was when Mariah Carey’s Always Be My Baby came on, and C’s entire family profoundly sang every word (you’ll know exactly which moment this is when you’re passing through these photos!) and all their guests joined in with arms around each other. Her mother singing to her father cradling his face and dedicating every word. It was such an incredible moment to be a part of. The third time I wept behind my lens was watching this couple on the dance floor, surrounded by so many people yet completely immersed and present with each other. They embraced each other like they were the only ones in that room and you will see that so very clearly too. They were the epitome of blissed out getting to dance with one another and I was so blissed out getting to witness it, I just couldn’t help feeling it all along with them.

This was one of the most emotional and love, joy, warmth filled day that I have ever photographed and witnessed. These two were incredibly present with me and their people and that’s all I can ask for . They let me in, they treated me like family, their family treated me like family, I do not take this privilege lightly of entering one of the most intimate and personal days in your story, so thank you for letting me in.

Venue // Stable Cafe
Florals // Bride
Food // Ann Walker Catering
Music // Golden Bell
Cake // Butter&

Savannah & Max // Sebastopol Backyard Wedding

Savannah & Max got married in the backyard of Savannah’s childhood home and once you scroll through, your jaw will be where mine was stepping onto their property - down to the floor. This backyard wedding set in the wondrous woods of Sebastopol was straight out of a daydream. Even more wondrous is these two. Savannah is exactly the energy she exudes, she is a sort of a womanly-human-goddess-hybrid who is humble, deeply compassionate, and so unbelievably thoughtful in the most intuitive ways. She is the type that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years even upon just meeting. The warmth and personal nature she surrounds you with is something I’ll never get enough of. And Max, oh Max. He is the type that would not only give you the food right off his own plate, but will also make sure that you know that you never need to be afraid to ask for it. He is strength yet softness, grounded, and takes care of his people. I’ve said this before and I will say it forever, I do not take the privilege of entering one of the most personal and intimate days in a couple’s lives lightly. And to be treated like family by this couple and their people on this very day is truly such a gift. I am just so happy these two found each other and so humbled and honored that I got to document a chapter in their story.

Enjoy.

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Whitney & Lauren // Headlands Center for the Arts Wedding

Whitney & Lauren’s Summer wedding at the Headlands Center for the Arts was every bit artistic, filled with emotion and surrounded by affection. They had built a badass all female team with food goddess Katie Powers delivering the seasonal and local goods, Bewilder adorning with florals, and Heart of Gold on deck. I deeply enjoyed running around capturing every aspect of this day, as these two treated me like family as the rest of their people did. Those are the moments that I am stunned that I get to enter such an incredibly personal and truly long awaited day, to be let in to witness and document some of the most intimate aspects of their story and relationships with their people. I do not take this privilege lightly and am so humbled to have been trusted with documenting their bond and their evident friendship. I have never met a kinder and more exuberant and welcoming being like Lauren, just wait till you literally see those things in his very smile in these photographs! And I was instantly enamored by Whitney’s quiet nature at first glance and then she welcomes you right in to see that strong, intelligent, passionate and deep minded woman. Together, they are warm, so thoughtful and continuously uplifting and supportive of those they love. What a gift to feel that love.

Venue // Headlands Center for the Arts
Food // Katie Powers Catering
Florals // Bewilder
DJ // Heart of Gold
Make up & Hair // Love & Wolves Beauty
Cake // Cake Bloom

Enjoy.