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This wedding was unique in that it was held on the roof of the
Hotel Vitale on the Embarcadero in San Francisco....during Fleet Week. The ceremony was at 4pm after the Blue Angels were done...but before that we were all treated to a great air show. The jets were flying all around us and all of our necks were turning back and forth because you never knew where they were coming from.
Aside from the air show, the setting was beautiful. On the roof of the hotel were views of the Bay Bridge, the Ferry Building, the Embarcadero, the Transamerica Building and more.....absolutely spectacular.
We hope you enjoy a few of the photographs from the day.
Peace,
T&L
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We got the chance to go back to the
Taber Ranch near Cache Creek last month. It's a little drive for us, but we love going up there because it is a crazy cool place with lots of photographic opportunities for us. On top of being a cool and different place to work, Kim and Diane are absolutely great to work with. They make sure your wedding experience is awesome.
The ceremony is on top of a big hill overlooking the beautiful Cape Valley. The ranch has two red Cadillac Seville's that they use to transport guests up the hill.....and they are also used to bring the bride up, which makes for a pretty dramatic entrance.
Katie & AJ are a great couple.....AJ is a freakin' laugh riot....so hilarious. We were a little squeezed on time for pictures...but they were game for anything and made some time for us after dinner for some more pictures. In the end we had a great time working for such a nice couple and working at one of our favorite places.
We hope you enjoy the few pictures we posted.
Peace,
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This past weekend we ended our wedding season with a WONDERFUL wedding. Kathryn and Jason were married in Pleasanton at St Elizabeth Seton church and had their reception at
Castlewood Country Club.
This wedding was refreshing because they put a lot of themselves into it. It started with a photo booth that greeted the guests as they arrived. There was a life size cardboard cutout of Kathryn and Jason and all kinds of props....crazy wigs, marti gras beads, sunglasses, hula skirts, glow in the dark necklaces and a bunch of other things. All the guests were encouraged to pose with the happy couple and we took shots of almost all the 275 guests. It was a very well recieved addition and really set the tone........LET'S CELEBRATE.
Then we saw something a little different. You've probably seen the Youtube video of the couple that started their first dance to some sweet song and then all the sudden going into Baby Got Back with the bride and groom choreographing their dance. We've had other couples do that and it is very cool. But this time the whole wedding party took part. Their dance had lot's of layers to it, Kathryn & Jason, the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, the whole party and more. Aaron from
Amos Productions our favorite DJ company played the mix. It was awesome to see and we have to give props to the wedding party....they were up until 2am on Friday figuring out all their moves.
Slowly but surely all the wigs, sunglasses and other props from the photo booth made their way to the dance floor and everybody had something on. It was a lot of fun to be a part of.
Kathryn and Jason are two of the sweetest people you could meet and we wish them a lifetime of happiness.
Peace,
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Candice and Nick had a magnificent wedding at
Mont La Salle in Napa. Mont La Salle is a Christian Brothers Retreat house in Napa right next to Hess Winery. I believe that the Christian Brothers own the vineyards that grow the grapes for Hess, so the property is huge.
Our day started by getting shots of Candice getting ready. She was so happy this day was here that she was almost giddy. That only got better when a groomsmen delivered a gift from Nick....diamond earings.
The ceremony took place inside the church afterwhich we had all the guests go out to the front steps for a huge group photo. Those are always great to do because as we say, there will never be another moment in time when all those same people will be together.
Candice and Nick were game for just about any kind of pictures we wanted to do so we got a lot...it was a fun day to be a wedding photographer. We should have images posted online by the end of next week. If you want to see all of them go to our website
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The reception was held outside in the courtyard and was beautiful. Candice's dad had come up the day before and ran lights throughout the courtyard, so by dusk it was especially beautiful. Lee got the cool shot on this post of Nick and Candice dancing. This reception had a lot going on from a Jewish Hora dance, to the bridesmaids doing a choreographed dance to "In The Navy" to acknowledge Nick's service....to Nick singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and the crowd singing along. All in all it was a great day.
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This is one of our favorite weddings for a couple reasons. First, it was at the
Palm Event Center, which is one of our favorite venues to work at. Second, Darrell was the best man of a wedding we did a couple years ago. So Stacy and Darrell came to us knowing our work and we felt more like friends of theirs than a vendor.
We started at Stacy's parents house, where things were basically calm....nobody stressing out. Stacy was absolutely beautiful, she had to know it....but she didn't act it. After everyone was ready we headded over to the
Rose Hotel to get some shots of Stacy and the bridesmaids.
The ceremony was beautiful with the vineyards of the
Palm Event Center as a backdrop. Then it was time for the reception. Stacy & Darrell are friends with Jody Amos who owns our favorite DJ company
Amos Productions. Jody served as MC while Josh played the music. Their music selection, mixes and presence really make any reception a BIG party.
In the end
1000 Words Photography had a great time and were pretty stoked by the images that we captured. Their pictures will be posted on our website late next week.
Peace,
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We had the pleasure of photographing Nicole & Garrett's wedding last Sunday at the
Dublin Ranch. It is a great venue to work at with a really good staff. Nicole was the first to arrive on wedding day and had plenty of time to get ready. Little by little the bridesmaids started arriving...and can I say that she had the rockinest bridesmaids. They took care of every detail for Nicole...they went and got us golf carts, golf clubs....anything. They were game for just about everything and we had a great time working with them.
Nicole and Garrett are truely nice, good people and it is an honor to work for people like them. They were so calm and relaxed the whole day and everything went very smooth.
One of the groomsmen is lead singer in a band called
Jaymes Reunion and their first album should be out later this fall. Their music is kinda like Matchbox 20. Their song Fine is really good and may get significant radio play.
So another great day for
1000 Words Photography . Thank you Nicole & Garrett for letting us share your day with you.
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This post is just to follow up from our experience at the Brides Against Breast Cancer fundraiser we participated in last week. Simply put, I was blown away by this organization. It was founded back in 1998 by Fran Hansen as a way to grant wishes for women stricken with breast cancer. Her goal was to be able to lighten the load put upon these women. So she began by asking designers and retailers of wedding gowns to donate so they could be sold.
After the very first event Fran was invited to be on Oprah and a huge buzz began. Oprah donated $500,000 in gowns to help the organization grow and grant wishes. It kept growing from there and now they do a national tour of the gown sale. The gowns are priced ridiculously low and current brides are able to get amazing high quality gowns for a fraction of what they would normally pay. I saw several brides purchase gowns in San Ramon for $300 and less. The girls were almost giddy because they knew that they totally scored and saved a ton of money.
Most of the wishes granted average from $4000-$6000 and can vary from a family vacation, a family reunion, pretty much anything that will help them deal with their affliction. Fran's life and work have such tremendous purpose and is a wonderful example for all of us. To find out more about the organization go to http://www.makingmemories.org/ .
1000 Words Photography would like to give a lot of praise to Amber and Julia from The Trades Secrets for organizing the event.
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Join us August 22nd at the San Ramon Marriott from 10am to 8pmfor a really worthwhile event. Designers, retailers and individuals have donated lots of fabulous wedding gowns valued up to $8000 and will be sold from $99 to $799.
It is a great opportunity to shed some light and raise some money for a disease that affects us all. Just this year my aunt and two friends were diagnosed with breast cancer. Treatment has come a long way over the years and hopefully a cure will be found soon
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This wedding is from July 19th when 1000 Words Photography went to San Rafael to photograph Syrrus & Garrett's wedding. The couple lives in Houston but grew up here in the San Francisco Bay Area and came to California for their wedding. Lee & I split up to cover the getting ready shots (they were right down the hall from each other). We don't usually spend a whole lot of time with grooms getting ready, but this day it worked. So Garrett is a college Philosophy teacher and is studying to get his PHD is Bio Ethics......what the heck is that? I think it has to do with issues of morality & law in cases like stem cell research. Anyway, Garrett is one of the most insanely intelligent people I've ever met.....one of his groomsmen commented that you NEVER want to get in a debate with him, because there is no way to win...he's that good.
We don't get to photograph too many weddings in Marin County and it was a nice to be able to work there. It is so nice over there. This was I think the only vegan reception we'd ever been to...we're not vegan...but it was a refreshing change of pace. Syrrus planned the whole wedding from out of town/online....nicely done.
We hope you like the shots we posted.
Peace,
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Saturday we got the chance to work with Melissa & Chris another couple who has been together for many years and finally got around to tying the knot. We met Melissa at her folks house for getting ready pictures. We had talked about Melissa's fear of running late, but there was none of that. It is really rare that hair and makeup don't run long, but it didn't and everything was right on schedule.
The ceremony took place at Immaculate Heart of Mary church in Brentwood. It was a full Catholic mass and was very upbeat.
The reception was held at The Nines
http://trilogygolfclub.com/brentwood_weddings/index.asp in Brentwood. Melissa & Chris did what we really advise our couples to consider...and that is going straight into their first dance after being introduced. It just seems like the energy level in the room goes up when they open with the first dance......I'm not sayin'......I'm just sayin'.
Can I just sing some massive praise to the event coordinator Lisa Quinn. She and her staff are as good as the get and dinner & the reception went off without a hitch. There were a lot of little kids at the reception and Lisa wanted to make sure that all their parents enjoyed dinner, so she took all the kids outside and played with them for like an hour (and it was hot out). Lisa you're AWESOME.
Mark Welch from
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Melissa & Chris are off to Mexico for their honeymoon before returning home to face another school year.
Finally.....Victoria the flower girl told us she wanted to be in a magazine.......for now how about just our blog.
Peace,
T&L
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Living in California in itself is awesome and one of the great things about our profession is that we get to go to fabulous locations all over Northern California. This past weekend we photographed Christine & Greg's wedding at the Mission Ranch
http://www.missionranchcarmel.com/ . The ranch is owned by Clint Eastwood and is a really great place for a wedding.
We were so stressed getting there, we gave ourselves 3.5 hours to get there thinking we'd grab some lunch in Carmel until it was time to start. We crawled from San Jose to Gilroy because of the Garlic Festival. We were stressin' thinking that traffic was so bad we might miss the ceremony. Fortunately, we got there right on time (thank God we padded the time to get there).
Christine & Greg have been together for 9 years and there were lots of poking at Greg that it was about time he married Christine. They are a super cool couple totally meant for each other. They are spending 3 weeks in Europe starting next week and then when they return C starts nursing school....busy year. This wedding was special because there were lots of guests who made the journey from Japan to be there and they were taking pictures like there was no tomorrow.
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Okay, so I just came across a video that totally raises the bar for wedding slideshows. The groom works for Fox Sports and put this together. It is totally hilarious and touching....way to go outside the box. To see it click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA29Ot7ajac
Just to be clear we had nothing to do with this video, just are giving it major props on the creativity.
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So last week was completely bananas for us. We actually attended our nephew's wedding as a guest in San Diego last Thursday. We flew down on Tuesday went to the Padres game that night (saw one of their infrequent wins). We goofed around at Mission Bay on Wednesday and then headed over to the rehearsal dinner. We shoot so many weddings and rarely get to experience a wedding from the guest's perspective. It was so much fun.....and we LOVE San Diego. I got to hang out with all the groomsmen throwing back shots. They took to the town after dinner and I passed on that. Most of the guys are in the Air Force and were really cool to crack up with.
The next day was the wedding, but before we headded over to that we (Lee, the kids & myself) went downtown for some sightseeing. San Diego looks a lot like San Francisco especially along the Embarcadero. We checked out the shops and took lots of pictures. But did I fail somewhere as a dad when the only thing my daughter wanted was a Hooters tshirt :)
We don't even know our nephew that well (we first met in September when we did their engagement session in SD), but neither Lee or I could help from having a couple tears during the ceremony. It was a really nice service and the reception was sooo much fun. We even stayed out of their photographers
http://www.ivpstudios.com/ way. They were really cool and nice to talk to.
It killed us that we had to leave before the reception because we had to get back to the Bay because we had to shoot 3 Weddings in 3 Days. Needless to say by Sunday night we were dragging, but had a lot of fun.
Peace,
T&L
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