Bay Area wedding stories
Real stories, photographed from the inside.
Find a story by the kind of celebration, the place, the venue, or the conditions you are planning around.
Guides explain a decision. Stories show that decision inside a real day—with weather, family, difficult light, a changing timeline, and people who were never asked to become models.
The work is the map
Browse by the kind of day you are planning, then follow the photographs into complete stories and the guides connected to them.
Featured stories
Start with a few days we keep returning to.
Wedding stories
Full wedding days, not highlight fragments.
See ceremonies, guests, weather, dinner, dancing, and the parts nobody could have scripted—held together as complete stories.
- City celebrations
- Wine country, ranches, and redwoods
- Destination and multi-day weddings
San Francisco City Hall
The ceremony is brief. The day does not have to be.
Civil ceremonies, private reservations, family, restaurants, neighborhoods, and the routes that turn City Hall into a personal San Francisco day.
- Civil ceremonies
- Dinner and the city afterward
- Coast and redwoods
Small wedding stories
A close guest list can still hold a complete wedding.
Hosted celebrations for roughly sixty people or fewer—with getting ready, family, a ceremony, dinner, speeches, dancing, and enough time for the gathering to become a complete story.
- Restaurants and city gatherings
- Private homes and gardens
- Coast and intimate venues
Elopement stories
Small days with enough room to become complete stories.
The coast, redwoods, city streets, film, changing weather, and a handful of people—without asking an elopement to imitate a large wedding.
- City and City Hall
- Coast and redwoods
- Mountain and destination
Engagement stories
Time together, with a camera nearby.
Engagement sessions built around a real place, something to do, and clear direction only when it helps.
- Neighborhood and city
- Coast and landscape
- Activities and shared rituals
Proposal stories
One precise moment, followed by everything that happens next.
The location and timing are planned closely enough to protect the surprise. Once the answer is known, the photographs can loosen into a real engagement story.
- The plan that protects the surprise
- The answer and what follows
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