Corona Heights Engagement Session: A&K

I am thrilled to share these photos of A & K’s engagement session at Corona Heights, San Francisco. This is that craggy hill that you can see when you’re sitting in Dolores Park and yes it is well worth a visit if you’ve never been! I encourage you to go explore it. We had so much fun running around as the sun set in the most dramatic way possible behind the fog rolling over Sutro tower.

But before we made it to Corona Heights you will see that we started at their apartment in the Haight checking out the beautiful book K made for A when he proposed to her. They have an insanely romantic story. They met on a plane, but started off as friends keeping up a lively email correspondence on different sides of the country until they realized that they just had to be together. The book is full of all of their emails and photos of the two of them and on the last page, K asked A to marry him!

Enjoy the photos! When you see how cute these two are together you’ll see why I can’t wait to be their wedding photographer this coming October. (The couple requested that I abbreviate their names to just their initials when sharing their photos online.)

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So freaking excited for these two! They kept it sweet and simple with a private elopement in San Francisco's golden gate park and they also had an enormous amount of luck when they planned to get married on Wednesday when we had a break in the rain here in the SF Bay Area. It was such a joy to capture this moment ❤️
Just going to put this here... my first attempt at putting myself in front of the camera! Everyone else is doing it so I'm giving it a shot now too. ⁠
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This is from Christy & Dory's gorgeous wedding at Straus Home Ranch, in Marshall, CA. It is one of my favorite venues and this was a very special wedding. Even though this is a more serious moment there is tons of laughter that happens between these two. Christy has the most contagious laugh. I'm sure you'll be smiling when you take a peek. Check out the link in bio.⁠
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📍 Wedding Venue: Straus Home Ranch @straushomeranch⁠
💐 Florals + Planning: Three Summer Days Events, Ashley Babin @threesummerdaysevents⁠
🧀 Catering: The Girl and the Fig @figcaters⁠
🎵 Band: Lucky Devils @luckydevilsband⁠
💄 Hair + Makeup: Lea B Gorgeous @lea_bgorgeous⁠
Enjoy fleet week San Francisco. Hope you enjoy it as much as this mother of the bride!⁠
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The most memorable moments are the unexpected ones. We were getting lined up for family photos when we could hear the blue angels starting up (very loudly) and flying overhead. Emily & Will got so lucky they didn't fly over while they were exchanging their vows and only started up just minutes after they said "I do."⁠
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Also when taking this photo I was disappointed for a split second that I didn't have a long close up lens on me so I could get a better photo of the planes, but then I realized my wide angle lens was perfect for allowing me to get everyone's reaction to the planes just before they zoomed out of frame.