19 Aug 2009, Posted by Carmen in Blog, Church Wedding, San Francisco Wedding, Weddings, 0 Comments

Jazmin & John | St. Ignatius Church Wedding | San Francisco City Club Reception| San Francisco, CA Wedding

It is a truly special treat when I show up to a wedding day and I already know so many of the people involved!  The overlaps on this day were amazing… see if you can follow this:  Jazmin’s sister is Yatzin.  I was lucky enough to have photographed Yatzin’s wedding to David last year, and by incredible coincidence, Jazmin was already engaged to John, who just happened to be David’s best friend from childhood!  So besides a lot of familiar family members, I also got to work with the same florist (Lidia Sadoun of La Fleuriste) and makeup artist (Nikol Elaine), so I knew everyone and everything was going to look gorgeous!  After getting ready, our day started with a family & bridal party cable car ride/ photo session to Golden Gate Park.  
For any brides thinking they would like to be able to run around San Francisco for a photo session without worrying about foot exhaustion in high heels, fancy ballet slippers ARE an option!   John & Jazmin have such a deep appreciation of architectural asthetics that I swear even my nature shots of them turned out extra-linear!  The full Catholic mass at the gorgeous St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco was next.  The first little photo stop we took immediately after the ceremony was inside the church itself – the bluish-purplish sanctuary.  It’s one of many beautiful side sanctuaries in the church, but this particular one of the Virgen de Guadalupe is where John originally proposed to Jazmin… Afterwards we had another fun photo session at the Yerba Buena Center carousel and the streets of San Francisco (where no one even got run over!!) and we ended up at the reception at San Francisco City Club.  Enjoy!

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26 Jul 2009, Posted by Carmen in Blog, Church Wedding, San Francisco Wedding, Weddings, 1 Comments

Debbie and Ryan | Saints Peter & Paul Church Wedding | North Beach Photography | Marine's Memorial Club & Hotel Reception | San Francisco, CA Wedding

Wow, were these photos hard to pick!  For every photo that ended up here on the blog, I swear there were at least 10 others I wanted to post – it was just that good of a wedding.  Here was the beginning of the day:

I had the great pleasure of seeing Annie Siu‘s gorgeous flower creations again – she has such an incredible asthetic taste and ability to match her designs to each couple’s unique style… I highly recommend checking her out!  The two pieces in the cathedral and everything at reception that shows up later on is hers as well…

When all the girls were ready, we went out on the streets of downtown, where they truly lived up their Vogue time!

Meantime, my second shooter Sapasorn had taken the groomsmen (and one groomswoman ) on the streets too, just a couple of blocks away…

Then onto the church for the full Catholic mass, with the impressive backdrop that St. Peter & Paul’s Cathedral offers:

As always, the flower girls just kill me!

After the portraits we took outside the church, I headed with just Debbie and Ryan for some time in North Beach.  It was SUCH a treat to see them slightly shy at first, but almost immediately start to get right into the flow of the hustle and bustle of that area, people and cars and noise everywhere.  By the end of our session, they were seasoned pro models!  They’d had dozens of people cheering them on, clapping for them, honking and waving at them, and they were positively glowing from their time in the limelight!  SO much fun…

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