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The Value Of Engagement Sessions

So you’ve gotten engaged. Your significant other has popped the question and immediately, dreams of your wedding day begin to float around in your mind. You can already picture how that one perfect image from your wedding day will look hanging on your wall––easy tiger…

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Meet Michaela & Tim

We are Michaela and Tim (affectionately known to some as Mak & Timmy) and we met working at a wine bar, fell in love attending a wedding, and together, we believe in making an impact on your life. Why? Because we never believed in marriage until we met each other––it has changed us. We know that finding your person is not an easy task…

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Eliza & Ryland // Great American Music Hall Wedding // San Francisco, California

This wedding was brought to us by “the Moms!” What a treat to find out that two ladies’ mothers are responsible for loving our work so much that they encouraged their daughters to book with us. Eliza gave us a ring us one day exclaiming, “You photographed my old high school friend Diana’s wedding and her mother and my mother are total besties. Deb (Diana’s mom) is obsessed with your photography…

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Tammy & Rainier // City Hall Wedding // San Francisco, California

Tammy and Rainier found us through the very first wedding that Tim and I photographed together in California. That very first wedding was the marriage of our dear friends, Eileen and Brian. We have received many referrals from Eileen and Brian for their friends getting married, and for that, we are infinitely grateful…

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Amanda & Kevin // Harry Potter Engagement // Robert’s Park, Oakland

We’ve always wanted to do a Harry Potter-themed something. Or perhaps we didn’t realize we had wanted to do a Harry Potter themed photo session until Amanda and Kevin brought our hidden dream to life. As we confirmed the location for our session, Amanda and Kevin casually dropped in a little something along the lines of, “By the way, we really like Harry Potter…

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Kelley & Ziggy // Crane Melon Ranch Wedding // Sonoma, CA

Kelley came to us because she and Tim used to work at a wine bar together here in the Bay Area. Later down the road, Kelley and I ran into each other at a holiday party for The Knot, where she told me excitedly––”Hey! Ziggy and I are engaged, and we would love to have you two photograph our wedding.” Without a doubt, we wanted to be at this epic wedding that was many years in the making.

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Zach & Jake’s City Hall Wedding // San Francisco, California

Zack and Jake are one of the cutest couples I’ve ever encountered. We love living in a town that celebrates gay marriage and equality for all love (as every town in every place should). Getting to be a part of their wedding was so special and delightfully fun, as it was an afternoon of non-stop laughter and pure excitement…

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Sarah & Scott // Lover’s Lane Engagement // San Francisco, California

A New York couple, Scott and Sarah came to us via the East Coast for a dreamy San Francisco Session. They are both originally from the Bay Area but have since relocated to New York. We were simply ecstatic when they found us and wanted us to photograph their wedding. We arranged for their engagement session to fall almost exactly a year before their wedding day…

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Denise & Peter // Dance Palace Wedding // Point Reyes, California

Denise came to us through our friend and studio-mate who is a dog portrait photographer (also known as the best job ever) and from the second I was on the phone with her, I knew Denise was an awesome human. The story of how she met her then-fiancé Peter was so sweet––they found each other through a mutual friend at a party, an unexpected meeting place for both of them…

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Natalie & Matt // Flood Mansion Wedding // San Francisco, CA

Flood Mansion had always been a dream venue for us. We have worked with Glow Event Design in the past on corporate events or weddings with other photographers, and they have seen us grow our company over the years. In fact, Christina of Glow Events was one of the first planners we reached out to when we started our company here in the Bay Area, way back in 2013…

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Julia & Mike // Los Gatos Swim & Racquet Club Wedding // Los Gatos, California

Julia and Mike found us as local photographers to them in the Bay Area. From the beginning, we knew that these two were unique and adorable humans that we wanted to photograph. They decided to have their wedding at Mike’s family’s Swim and Racquet Club in Los Gatos. We anticipated nothing less than an interesting day because let’s face it, every wedding day has it’s rollercoaster of emotions!

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Jenny And Dustin’s Hurricane Free Wedding // Mandalay Bay + Mgm Grand // Las Vegas

If you have been following us, then you know about Jenny & Dustin. These two had their wedding canceled three times due to Hurricanes in Texas…THREE. TIMES.

We met them and decided to do their wedding as a gift since they had lost so much money and were emotionally drained from the whole experience- can you imagine? I mean, planning one wedding is enough, but to start over three times! Holy hell batman…

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Samantha & Jon // Stanford Memorial Church Wedding // Palo Alto, California

Needing a dose of winter wedding inspiration? Look no further than Samantha and Jon’s festive ceremony at Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto. Samantha found us via her maid of honor who was helping her to plan her wedding day. Her amazing friend was there to lend a helping hand, as Samantha was a year in on a great Girl Boss adventure…

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Natalie & Matt // Engagement // Portola Valley, California

Natalie and Matt found us through another couple of ours––Emily and Chris––who got married exactly a year before them. They were guests at Emily‘s wedding at Fort Mason, and Natalie is Emily’s coworker. About three days after this wedding, I received an email from Natalie saying nothing but amazing things about our work in the way that we took great care of Emily and Chris leading up to it…

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