Selected weddings
Six recent days, chosen because they show the range and not the highlights.
The full portfolio runs to thirty-one weddings. We send the password to that gallery when an inquiry becomes a serious conversation. Below is the shorter look — closer to how the work actually feels across a year.
The wall
Six frames pulled from six days — the shortest version of the year.
One image per wedding. Each was chosen by the lead, not by an algorithm and not by what posted well. Click through to read a paragraph on each day, or write us for the password to the full gallery.
Sonoma County, October
A vineyard wedding pushed twelve minutes earlier so the rings caught the soft light.
Mendocino, November
A coastal ceremony in clear weather. We shot ninety frames in the half hour after.
Berkeley Hills, August
Forty guests, a deck, string lights. The dancing started before the cake was cut.
Russian Hill, June
A garden between two flats, forty-two guests. The grandmother gave the second reading.
Brooklyn, September
Eighty guests on a rooftop. The night was warmer than the forecast. We did not light a thing.
Point Reyes, May
Folding chairs and a line of water. A small ceremony scheduled to the light, not the clock.
City weddings
Indoor light, narrow alleys, and an hour of late sun if you ask for it.
A church ceremony, a stone alley behind the building, a reception two blocks east. The shape of the city wedding is mostly architecture and timing — and we have spent a decade learning the small windows where those two cooperate.
Hayes Valley, San Francisco
A church and a stone alley
One hundred and ten guests. Catholic ceremony, portraits between the church and the reception, dinner at a restaurant they had been going to since college. The planner was on her fourth wedding with us.
Brooklyn, New York
A loft and a rooftop
Eighty guests. Civil ceremony at the loft, dinner under a single line of bulbs across a rooftop. The night was warmer than the forecast said. We did not light a thing.
Russian Hill, San Francisco
A garden between two flats
Forty-two guests. A garden the bride had grown up walking past. The grandmother gave the second reading. We did not move from a folding chair for fifteen minutes.
Country & coast
The longer days, with the light doing most of the work.
Outdoor weddings live or die on the half hour around sunset. We have spent more time arguing for a ceremony to move twelve minutes earlier than for any other choice on a day.
Sonoma County
A vineyard, late October
Seventy-two guests. We pushed the ceremony forward by twelve minutes that morning so the light would still be soft when the rings came out. The planner agreed in the moment. The light was the quietest gift of the day.
Berkeley Hills
A backyard, string lights, late summer
Forty guests. Family-only ceremony, dinner under string lights, dancing on a deck that was almost as crowded as the kitchen. The smaller a wedding gets, the closer we move.
Mendocino Coast
A cliff house at the edge of the fog
Fifty-eight guests. Coastal weddings hand you a kind of fog that almost no other place does. We shot ninety frames in the half hour after the ceremony alone.
A note on the gallery
We deliver more than we put on the wall.
Our full galleries are typically six hundred to nine hundred frames. The selected work is a smaller, slower edit — closer to a magazine feature than to a contact sheet. Both are part of how we shoot. The wall is what the year remembers; the gallery is what the family lives with.