Over the weekend, we met up with Jenni and Steve to do their engagement session. As it turns out, we all are very close neighbors and so we started just a few short blocks from home at Gaylord's, a coffee shop off of Piedmont Ave. where Jenni and Steve had their first date. After a few photos with their wiggly cats, we headed to Steve's old stomping grounds in Mill Valley. Mini redwood forests surround this town, and so we had no problem finding beautiful places to take photos. We stopped in at their favorite pizza place, Tony Tutto's to devour some delicious pizzas before ending the shoot along Blackies Pasture in Tiburon.
We can't wait photograph them with their family and friends at their wedding in just a few months!
As a true Southern California girl, rain kinda bums me out. Truth be told, I was a little nervous when I realized that all of Kate and Margee's elopement and engagement session was going to be photographed indoors because it was raining outside. Lucky for me, we started with them at San Francisco City Hall where Margee and Kate signed their domestic partnership papers, and the cloud cover that initially bummed me out actually turned City Hall's giant upstairs windows into huge soft boxes. And, here's a little photo lighting tip: if you want a quick and easy way to make your subjects look beautiful, use giant soft boxes to create soft, natural looking light. They had a lovely ceremony with just the two of them before heading to the county clerk office to make things official, and we just loved photographing them in such beautiful light in such an amazingly gorgeous space. Because San Francisco City Hall is so beautiful, photographing there can be frustrating because it can get pretty crowded with all of the couples getting married and taking photos. I've never liked fighting for space, but Margee and Kate were just so involved with one another that it made it seem as if all the other people just disappeared. Their smiles, laughter and love were so incredibly infectious that we all just created our own little world.
