Caroline + Chris | Married! – San Francisco Academy of Sciences Wedding

I finally found the time to feature one of my favorite weddings of the year! A group of very warm, thoughtful, and down to earth people, some of the best vendors in the biz, and a new favorite venue make for very happy photographers.  I was lucky enough to have my friend Maurice along as a 2nd shooter, and he made some fabulous images, thanks dude!

I started with a very jubilant Caroline at the Fairmont SF  for her preparation.

Maurice teamed up with the guys, and the next 3 resulting images are his.

Maurice’s image:

Maurice’s image:

Chris first laying eyes on Caroline coming down the aisle.

Maurice’s image:

The Academy of Sciences is a crazy place to make portraits!  Could have shot there all day long.

Maurice’s image:

The days details:

Huge props to the whole wedding team for pulling the day together so flawlessly.  It’s such a pleasure to work with people who are true experts in their respective fields. Here’s the dream team:

Event Design/Planning: Jess Flood (HUGE thank you again for the referral!)

Venues: SF Cal Academy of Sciences, Old St Mary’s, Shakespeare Gardens

Catering: Taste Catering – Hayley Seed

Floral Design: Hunt Littlefield

Hair/Makeup: Meaganne Mccandess

Lighting: Got Light?

DJ: Sound in Motion

This is an unusual ring shot I must admit, but when there are Ape skulls around to be used, I simply can’t resist!  Don’t worry, they got a “normal” one too.:-)

Maurice’s image.  Love this one!

Maurice’s image:

Thank you so much for trusting us with your day!

Cliff

 

Bartek Płuska - Totally totally amazing work , love details, light, moments, humor, frames, fantastic!!

Bill Palow - Cliff,

Beautiful subjects, wonderful work, true art!

Great to see you’ll.

Thanks for the memories.

Bill

Kevin Lam - Beautiful work and what a fantastic venue!

Cliff - Thanks Bill! It was great getting to know you and your family a bit, I’m so glad we could could be a part of everything.

Deivid Ribeiro - Beautilful job, i love how the photos came together and details of the wedding.

Nicole - This is my favorite wedding you’ve shot!

Saira + Mohsin | Married! – Day 3

OK, here comes day 3!

Image by Ari:

Image by Ari:

Image by Ari:

One fun part of shooting along with a friend photographer is a little friendly competition.  We were kinda put on the spot to make an interesting portrait of the couple while they were sitting on the stage in a spare moment.  We both did just one setup, taking turns holding flash for each other.  Mine is up first:

Ari’s up next:

Who won?  Saira + Mohsin!:-)

Happy accidents are great.  I love that is looks like Mohsin is conjuring up a cosmic blue orb in this one.

Image by Ari:

 

Thanks to Saira + Mohsin for having us along for the ride, it was a blast!

Cliff

Fernando Colaço - What tons of energy at this wedding and very well showed in your photos. Congratulations. Very well done.

Saira + Mohsin | Married! – Shaadi: Day 2

We’re on to day 2, the Shaadi.  Day 1 was just the warmup!

4 days of shooting (we had another wedding this weekend as well) was too much for Malarie, as she works with me in addition to having her own demanding career, (love ya wifey!) so I was lucky enough to have a friend and a fabulously talented fellow photographer Ari join forces with me.  Thanks dude!

One of my favorites of the day:

Next 2 shots of Mohsin are Ari’s:

Only had a few minutes for portraits, and had to keep them hidden from the guests, but we made those minutes count!

The days details:

Venue: Hotel Sofitel

Planner: Avant Planners: Purvi Shah

Florals: Waterlily Pond: Natasha

Makeup: Farhana Baig

Cake: Studio Cake

 

Next 2 shots by Ari:

Another one of my favorites of the day.

The dancing was krazy!  I love the energy of Pakistani weddings!

They were spinning around like you used to do on rollerskates as a kid “cracking the whip” style.  I was shooting this at 16mm, so you can imagine how close to the action I was!  Glad to have lived to shoot another day.

Did I mention I loved shooting their dancing?  Such elation on their faces!  Another personal favorite.

This guy does a thing where he spins as fast as he can until he can barely stand and people have to hold him up.  I think it’s kind of his thing.  He did it all three nights, and everyone knew to clear out and make room!

Next shot by Ari:

Mohsin and Saira’s Mom:

Next shot by Ari.  Love the feel of this one, nice job dude.

Last 2 also by Ari:

 

Day 3 coming up next!

 

Cliff

Ben S. - Beautifully don, Cliff.

Purvi Shah - Beautiful pictures! it was a pleasure working with you.

Mary McHenry - Loving the white spaces in the getting ready shots and the dance floor shots are great. Nice work!

Patrick - wow! powerful and amazing images!

Saira + Mohsin | Married! – Mehndi: Day 1

I’ve got an exciting week in store for the blog!  I’ll be making 3 posts from Saira + Mohsin’s spectacular 3 day wedding.  So much color, beauty, and dance floor exuberance is in store!  These are my favorites from Day 1 of the 3, the Mehndi:

We’ll start off with an image from Malarie:

Friends and family did some rehearsed performances for the couple before everyone joined in the dancing.

Then the party got started!

You know the dancing has gotten serious when you stumble upon this scene:

Stay tuned for day #2, the Shaadi!

Mandi + Khoa | Married – Asian Art Museum Wedding

 

Ok, let’s see if I remember how this blogging thing works!

Here is an elegant, yet lighthearted affair thrown by two of the sweetest people ever to find one another.  We started things off at The Palace Hotel for the getting ready.  The fabulous Giao Nguyen and her team took the lead on hair and makeup, and she’s quickly become one of my favorites.

We were lucky enough to have the chance to shoot in the restaurant with no one around.  I was pretty happy to be able to make some images with the most beautiful ceiling in the city as my backdrop.

Gwen Helbush of Where to Start Weddings even pulled some strings to get us access to the upper tier.  Definitely above and beyond Gwen, thanks!

We moved on the Asian Art Museum from there for a few more portraits before the ceremony.

This is Malarie’s shot of the little flower girl going into melt down mode when walking down the aisle. Kids.:-)

The deets:

Florals: Nancy Liu Chin

Event Planning: Gwen Helbush

Makeup/Hair: Giao Nguyen

Dress: Melissa Sweet

Cake: CakeWork

Caterer: Global Gourmet Catering

Videography: iq Videography

 

I loved the restrained elegance mixed with the playfulness of the video game theme.

A spin on the father daughter dance was the father/daughter slideshow, which brought out some great emotion.

Thank you so much for having us!

Cliff

 

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Matthias - Rock on! Those portraits are amazing. Beautiful work Cliff.

Wendy Hithe - I love the shots with the flower girl. Award winning! You are so awesome, Cliff. :)

Cliff - Thank you Matthias and Wendy!