We are still not unpacked and pretty much living out of the boxes. I spent half an hour yesterday looking for my jacket and then just decided to wear something else :) Sooo, thank you to everyone for being patient, we’re finally catching up with all the work.

Elya and Borya came a long way for the their engagement session - they live in San Diego and flew to Bay Area just in time for the photo session. They got a bit lost in a city, but everything turned out just fine in the end: we took pictures at sunset in SF’s Embarcadero area and then even got to play in the dark! As usual for San Francisco, it got to be a little chilly by evening so we had to do a lot of hugging, running and jumping to warm up :) It was a blast!

Elya and Borya are planning a beautiful wedding just a couple of months away in Los Altos Hills’ Beth Am. We’re very much looking forward to it!

Natasha

The move to our new place was successful and we’re already enjoying all the new space. We’ve documented the event well (I’m glad Mike was patient with me taking pictures of him moving heavy boxes around :) and we’ll be posting a full photo reportage next week. We’re slowly catching up on all of our recent shoots - we’ve had quite a few awesome sessions in the last couple of weeks!

We first met Leann and Nate a year ago at Nate’s sister’s wedding. Jessica married Trevor at the beautiful Martinelli Event Center in Livermore. We love photographing the same family’s weddings, seeing some of the same faces and feeling like we’ve known the families for a long time!

On this day we met up at the Ferry building under the giant clock, went to explore the Embarcadero center (I just love all it’s interesting architecture, staircases, and beautiful flower beds!) and then made our way back to the waterfront.

Leann and Nate are getting married in 2009 at the gorgeous Palm Event Center in Pleasanton. I’m sooo looking forward to this beautiful winery wedding! We’ve recently had quite a few consultations for weddings taking place next year and we’re always happy to meet with people to whom photography is a priority.

Enjoy!

Natasha

Alison and David is the last couple we’ve recently shot in our North Beach engagement session marathon :) We came to this part of the city three times in the last few weeks and I have to say that I really love this location - we find new and interesting scenes there every time.

These guys live in SoCal and don’t have a chance to visit the Bay Area very often. They came to their engagement session straight from the airport and we were excited to have a chance to meet David for the first time. Their wedding will take place at the awesome Brazilian Room in Berkeley and we’re thrilled to photograph at this venue.

Alison and I discovered that we share a great passion: really good chocolate!! She mentioned that there’s going to be a lot of it at their reception and I’m looking forward to their wedding twice as much now! ;)

Natasha

We met Vivian and Edmond on Washington Square in North Beach when the sun was still high on the horizon, so we decide to get some coffee (I’m getting addicted to it :) and chat for a while.

During most engagement sessions we don’t really have a plan of where to go - we just meet with our couples in the spot they pick and then go wandering around, looking for beautiful light and cool backgrounds. Vivian and Edmond, however, did their homework: they came to North Beach some time before and scoped out some of their favorite spots.

Edmond and Vivian are getting married at the end of September in gorgeous Solage Calistoga. Did I mention we looove wine country weddings? Cannot wait for your big day, guys!!

Natasha