Dan + Kiley – A Yosemite Valley Wedding

Several years ago, Shawna and I went through the Wilderness Basics Course offered by the local Sierra Club chapter here in San Diego.  Through that course we met many awesome people, one of which was Dan, who was our hike leader on an overnight hike we did on the Pacific Crest Trail.  Both for Shawna and I, we felt like we had known Dan for a long time – he’s one of those guys that you instantly feel comfortable around.  Afterwards, Shawna would meet up with him and a few of his friends while surfing in Del Mar.  One of those friends was an awesome guy that Dan had dated in the past and who he continued to be close with.  Shawna tells the story that while walking to breakfast after a surf session that Dan silently said to her, “Isn’t Kiley awesome?”  Sometime later, Kiley pulled Shawna aside and quietly asked “Isn’t Dan the most amazing person?”  She wondered why these two had split up, and why they weren’t together.  Well they must have wondered the same thing because not long after, we heard they were dating again.

It’s clear when you are around these two that they are meant for each other.  They are just such a natural couple and you can tell how happy they are to have found each other.  They got engaged at Glacier Point and we learned they were planning on getting married in Yosemite.  We hoped they would ask us to shoot their wedding, which they did (we may have nudged them a little, I can’t remember).  We met them for wine at our favorite place, 3rd Corner Wine Bar in Ocean Beach and over several delicious bottles of wine we talked about their wedding (which was going to be at the beautiful Ahwahnee Hotel).  This was like a year and a half before the big day and because they love the woods, and traveling so much I couldn’t wait to spend time with them and shoot their wedding.

We flew up with my two older kids and Emma and made a little family vacation out of it.  The weather for their October 2016 wedding couldn’t be better.  Unseasonably warm and because Yosemite had received a big storm the week before, all the waterfalls were going off.  The day before the wedding they had booked a private tour of the Ahwahnee for their family and friends and we learned some really amazing things about Yosemite and the National Park Service (a former employer of mine) that I had not known.  The morning of the wedding we did a pre-wedding casual shoot with Dan and Kiley.  They were the easiest couple I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.  All I had to do was think about composition and lighting as they provided all of the natural energy and love that I work to bring out of couples.  Dan couldn’t be happier (Kiley too, but Dan is a high energy person as it is and he was just so happy that their wedding day had arrived).  The wedding on the lawn of the Ahwahnee was amazing.  Deer were cruising around throughout the ceremony and family photos.  It was breathtaking.  I feel I need to revisit this blog and write more about how incredible this experience was for us.  Having a 15-month old we don’t shoot weddings all that much anymore but weddings like this are precisely why we can’t stay away from being wedding photographers.


Rachel and Micah – A Tuscany, Italy Wedding

It’s been quite some time since we’ve posted, and this post is long overdue.  Back in 2014 I got a phone call from a bride who was interested in getting married in Italy.  She had read our blog article on How to Get Married In Italy and was interested in getting our help with planning, locating a venue, document coordination as well as having us photograph her wedding.  We were so excited.  We love Italy and the idea of going back there was incredible.

Rachel had been looking at locations in Tuscany (specifically Florence) and so we focused on that area.  We were married in at the Castle of Poppi in 2012 and having seen our photos and knowing logistically how to do a wedding there, Rachel and Micah fell in love with the idea of also getting married at the castle.  This was too good to be true…not only were we going to go back to Italy, we were going to shoot a wedding where we were married 2 1/2 years earlier.  What made it even more special was the fact that when Rachel and Micah’s wedding finally came around in March, 2015, Shawna was three months pregnant.  It’s a cliche yes, but this was full-circle for us.  And besides that, we really, really liked Rachel and Micah.

So we flew out in March, 2015 and the travel experience was a bit challenging.  As I mentioned, Shawna was three months pregnant and we kept arriving late at each of the 4 airports we were traveling through.  We had to run at full speed schlepping our carry-on bags from one end of the arriving airport to the other end to make our connecting flight.  We missed the connection somewhere (Paris maybe??) and had to wait several hours for the next available flight.  We were finally about to arrive into Florence when the pilot pulled up suddenly and announced that it was too windy and that we will be routed to Bologna.  It was around 9pm and all of us then had to climb into a bus in Bologna for a 1 1/2 drive to Florence.  To top it off, our luggage didn’t make it.  However, we made it and our AirBnB in Florence was amazing.

The next morning I met Rachel and Micah at the US Consulate in Florence for their appointment for their Nulla Osta documents.  I waited outside for them to finish, after which we walked to a nearby Tobacchi shop to purchase two Marca da Bollo stamps needed for the documents to be legalized at the Prefettura (Prefecture) office in Florence.  Since the agent in that office spoke no English, I translated and finished up there and then said good-bye to Rachel and Micah for a few days while we traveled to Venice (amazing!!).

A couple days before the wedding we traveled together to the Poppi Town Hall where we submitted all of the paperwork to the mayor (the same mayor who officiated our wedding) and everything was all set.  The morning of the wedding, we met up with Rachel and Micah at our hotel, then walked to pick up our rental car and drove the 1 1/2 hours to Poppi for the wedding.  It was a beautiful, yet cold, day and Rachel wrapped herself in a shawl and didn’t complain at all about the cold.  She and Micah were just too happy to be getting married and we were so happy to share in the experience with them.  We arrived at the castle a bit early and hungry so we went to an amazing restaurant right next to the castle and had an outrageously good Italian meal.  For those of you who have not been to Italy, understand this: the food there is unlike any Italian food here in the USA.  It’s so so so good and I’ve never experienced anything here like the food I’ve tasted there.  Anyway, the wedding was intimate and beautiful and then we walked around town taking their photos.  We then drove back to Florence and said our good-bye’s.  A whirlwind and totally awesome experience!

Wedding in Tuscany, Italy

Wedding in Tuscany, Italy

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Kids In Their Native Habitat

For me, the woods, and more specifically, the redwoods, constantly inspire my imagination and spirit.  I don’t know what it is that happens, but when I get into the woods, my inner child comes alive; I am filled with all sorts of wonder and ideas, almost as if I am ten years old again.  I want to play, splash, run, jump, find a walking stick, make a bow and arrow.  What is it about this magical place that makes my spirit come alive?  The woods have so much to teach us.

This past weekend, we brought the kids down to Memorial County Park (located in San Mateo County) for a quick walk through the woods on our drive from Woodside to the coast along Highway 84.  I saw my kids come alive in a way that I rarely get to see and felt the beauty and joy for life through the eyes of my kids.

 

Ashley and Matt – A Marin County Backyard Wedding

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We love hitting the road and when that involves going to the San Francisco Bay Area, we get all giddy!  The setting for Ashley and Matt’s wedding was beautiful Marin County, literally at the base of Mount Tamalpais.  The wedding took place in the beautifully decorated backyard of relatives, with a creek and beautiful trees bordering the yard.  Ashley and Matt opted for a first look and to shoot all of the formal photos before the ceremony.  We did all this at the Branson School, which was a fantastic setting providing beautiful wooded backgrounds and excellent light from the shade offered by the large trees.

Besides the gorgeous setting, we had many similarities to Ashley and Matt that made the day a lot of fun.  Like us, they own a Subaru Outback, love the mountains, and love to hike and camp.  The weekend went by too quickly.

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Erik and Sarah – A Balboa Park Beloved Engagement Session

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Sarah and Erik were really sweet and their engagement session was one filled with laughs and beautiful, tender, loving moments. Weeks before the engagement session, I often ask couples to prepare for it by choosing (from a list I send them) some fun things to do together – integrating some of these into the engagement shoot. When I meet with couples at their engagement session, they are often in the midst of planning their wedding. These “play lists” I send out are a fun break from all the wedding planning. Erik and Sarah showed up to Balboa Park with 3 or 4 different tasks chosen from my “play list”. I wish I could have spent the whole day with them because we all had a great time. Such a great way to get couples to focus on each other and have fun, rather than worrying about a guy with a camera they barely know simply taking photos.

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Lauren and Brandon – A Santa Barbara Wedding

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What made Lauren and Brandon’s Santa Barbara wedding so special wasn’t because their wedding was on a gorgeous estate in Montecito; it wasn’t because their ceremony was located within a beautiful catholic church just blocks from the estate.  No, what made their wedding special was how open they were with their love for each other.  I loved watching them interact with each other.  While Brandon may think that he would be tough to photograph, I experienced quite the opposite.  They were true muses – providing me inspiration while I captured the tenderness that is obvious in the way they love each other.  And besides all that, their families were extremely nice.  The whole day was an absolute pleasure to be a part of!

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Paul + Ashley, Team PandA :: Love is a 4-Letter Word, and so is Cabo!

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Stop # 2 in our five cities in thirty days tour brought us to Cabo San Lucas for Bradley Cooper Paul Caprara and Ashley Magellan’s wedding, aka Team PandA.  Shawna and I were so geared up for some time in Mexico!  We arrived into Cabo and met up with a couple of Ashley’s friends and shared a taxi to the Hilton together.  When we got to the hotel we were greeted with a couple margaritas.  We were shown to our ocean-front room (all the rooms there seem to be ocean front!) and looked at each other with a look of, omg we’re in Cabo!  Paul and Ashley had planted gifts in the rooms of all their guests: a couple sweet pair of blue sunglasses, some Coronitas, s small bottle of tequila, and a couple cool looking matchbooks.  We spent a total of four days in Cabo and simply had one of the best times together ever.  I can’t believe how lucky I am to be able to travel the world with my beautiful wife, getting to photograph weddings of amazing couples.  But enough about us, here is Team PandA!

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Clint + Sara, Beloved

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We love getting to know our couples.

Q. {From Sara} What kind of food do you like? What are your favorite restaurants?
A. I love Mexican food and Clint is a cheeseburger guy but we share a love for Italian food. We love small places like Piatti or Osteria Romantic at La Jolla Shores but when we are feeling fancy one of our favorite Italian places is Il Fornaio on Coronado (first date and engagement night dinners).

Q. {From Clint} If you could have one character trait of your partner’s which would it be & why?
A. Her ability to brighten anyone’s day is a character trait of hers that I would want. She can start a conversation with anyone, even a near stranger, and they always come out of it impressed with her charisma and with a smile on their face.

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