The Best Wedding Portrait Locations are at Stonebrae
Shhh…. Here’s a little secret. This formal portrait is actually a double exposure with my assistant in the shot and removed in Photoshop.
Great America Wedding - Santa Clara, CA
Sean and Elizabeth’s wedding took place in Great America’s theatre where they both have spent a lot of time performing…
Sequoyah Country Club Wedding Venue - Oakland, CA
Check out one of the best East Bay wedding venues…
Rios-Lovell Estate Winery - Livermore
At approximately 85% of weddings photographers do not get 30 minutes to focus solely on rings. You can see the behind the scenes of how this…
Kohl Mansion Wedding - Burlingame
Sabrina and Matt, I just love this couple, this is the simplest way to say how much I appreciate their special bond between each other, furthermore they’re just the kind of people that make you…
Brazilian Room - Berkeley Hills
Michaela and JR were a fun, very accommodating and friendly couple to photograph. They were always asking us and their friends if…
TPC Stonebrae - Hayward Hills
this is where the bride warned me that her father is an enthusiastic semi pro photographer and that he might try to…
Chardonnay Golf Club in American Canyon - A Wedding with a Tall Tale
one thing I know is certain about him, he loves being the tallest person in the room. So when I nudged my assistant in front of all of the groom’s men getting ready and told him “watch this,” he knew I was going to mess with him…
Hacienda de las Flores - An East Bay Hidden Gem
I love a good story, and the best man said it perfectly during his speech when he explained how Richard thought he was attending a beach front university. At the time Richard was over 5,000 miles from home in England when he discovered…
Alameda Backyard Wedding - the last of Covid
Aaron and Sara, had a wedding planned at a winery in Sonoma this past summer but were told they will not reopen in time for their date. Instead of waiting for Covid to release it’s grip on the last of wedding venues to reopen…
The Club at Ruby Hill - A Covid wedding halted, no more
The father of the bride had the whole room in laughter as he summed up Corinne and Adam’s Covid wedding path. What he said was…
St. Ignatius Wedding at USF - A Reception with a Twist
Maria & Robert, like many couples who wanted to have their wedding during Covid had to…
Ritz Carlton, Lake Tahoe - Covid style
Corinne and Adam were one of many couples who had a big wedding planned with a long list of guests in attendance, only to find themselves postponing their wedding date due to Covid19…
A Covid Wedding Story
In a year that has been very different for weddings of the world, this young couple altered their Covid19 wedding in beautiful fashion. Meet Shyaan and Abir, they were to have a two day wedding with 400 people in attendance, yes you heard correct, I said four hundred people!
A Blast from the Past - Wedgewood San Ramon
I was over the moon to photograph Candice and Corey’s wedding at Wedgewood in San Ramon because I have a personal connection with this couple…
Nella Terra - Close, yet Far From it All
Michael and Kari’s wedding began in the rolling hills of Nella Terra Cellars. The venue is close by, in fact it’s in the Bay, yet feels like it’s far from it all…
Sir Francis Drake Hotel - San Francisco
We were all really excited to create this image, my assistants helped me pull the veil towards the camera while another aimed the strobe, the wind did the rest…
Sequoia Mansion - Placerville
Heidi and Donnie asked me during our final meeting prior to their wedding to create a Vogue magazine style photo of their wedding party, so we set up this group picture at Sequoia Mansion.
Palm Event Center - Rustic & Glamorous
You can’t quite tell but Shanna the bride began to slip off of the elevated chair and at the same time was having so much fun she couldn’t really tell the ones carrying her she was slipping off, by the end of it all she actually fell off the chair and landed perfectly on her feet as they were bring her down, it was a close one!
Oakland Scottish Rite Center
The Scottish Rite Center at Lake Merritt in Oakland is always impressive, I have photographed weddings and Golden State Warriors events here but the lighting on this particular night takes the cake!