I had the great honor to shoot Mary & Michael in the heart of San Francisco. They married in the Rose Garden in Golden Gate Park, with roses all around them as well as in their bouquet (accompanied by thistles and tartan from their native U.K.). True to their roots, their sisters and mothers clearly coordinated a haberdashery into their fashion plans.
Mary & Michael followed the ceremony with a drinks reception at the top of the DeYoung Museum tower, complete with a perfect sunset on a specatcular clear day, the only day that week without fog and rain obscuring the view.
Cable cars ferried the party from the museum to the Mission district’s Foreign Cinema, where a dinner reception and dancing in the FC’s modernism gallery followed. Mary & Michael chose to feature ten double matted shadowbox framed photographs from their engagement session in the atrium hallway at the venue. In the gallery, they danced to a live swing band while a childhood slide retrospective played in full cinematic glory over the bar. Magnificent!
We used no flash at any time during Mary and Michael’s special day. Natural light photography (also known as available light photography) keeps us in the spirit of the candid wedding photography and photojournalism wedding photography that keeps our record of their memories true to life. Mary and Michael asked for a few posed portraits after the ceremony, as most people do. Beyond that, we blended into the background as best we could with the exception , of course, of an entire-wedding jump shot. Oh, and the food was fantastic!
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