Build time around the experience.
We start with the people, locations, available light, and real travel time. The timeline should support the wedding—not turn every transition into a photography deadline.
Wedding photography services


One place to begin
Full wedding weekends, a small dinner, a City Hall ceremony, or an afternoon together all need a different practical plan.
We are Helena and Laurent, a Marin-based wedding photography team working throughout San Francisco, the Bay Area, Wine Country, and the Northern California coast. We photograph on film and digital, with useful direction, room for real moments, and no need to perform for the camera.
Begin with complete wedding stories ↗Choose the shape of the celebration
Begin with the experience you are planning. Each page explains the coverage, priorities, photographs, and next practical step.

A complete day or wedding weekend, photographed through the people, place, pace, and everything that develops around the plan.
Explore full weddings ↗
A ceremony, the people closest to you, dinner, and a complete story without asking the celebration to feel miniature.
Explore small weddings ↗
Two people or a few witnesses, one meaningful place, and enough time for the day to become more than portraits.
Explore elopements ↗
An afternoon built around somewhere to go and something to do, with direction that gets out of the way.
Explore engagements ↗
A precise private plan for the surprise, followed by room to feel it and make photographs together.
Explore proposals ↗Wedding photography from the inside
The goal is not to make the wedding revolve around photography. It is to solve the photographs so thoroughly that you can stay inside the experience.
Before the day, we help make timing realistic, identify the people and transitions that matter, understand the spaces, and decide where direction will actually be useful. That preparation gives the wedding room to change without making the photographs feel accidental. When a portrait needs structure, we give it. When a moment is already happening, we do not interrupt it to make a cleaner version.
Film and digital belong to one finished story. Digital protects speed, darkness, and complete coverage; film brings another way of seeing color, movement, and restraint. With two photographers, one of us can protect the essential action while the other stays with reactions, parallel events, and the photograph that requires a little more risk. The result should feel beautiful without asking anyone to spend the day performing beauty for us.
That approach works at a large San Francisco wedding, a weekend in Wine Country, a small dinner in Marin, or an elopement on the coast. The coverage changes with the gathering. The standard of attention does not. The people remain the reason for all of it.
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What complete coverage protects
Good wedding photography is not simply a longer portrait session. It is preparation, attention, and enough room for the day to become more interesting than the schedule.
We start with the people, locations, available light, and real travel time. The timeline should support the wedding—not turn every transition into a photography deadline.
Family photographs and portraits sometimes need structure. We make that part clear and efficient, then return attention to the gathering instead of carrying a photo shoot through it.
Reactions, parallel events, weather, children, speeches, and the edges of the room make the finished story feel inhabited. For weddings around 115 guests, we strongly recommend two photographers so one perspective can protect the essential action while the other stays free to notice more.
The complete gallery becomes a memory bank. Prints and albums bring a few photographs back into daily life, where they can keep gathering meaning instead of disappearing onto a drive.
Complete wedding stories

Wedding story · Straus Home Ranch

Wedding story · Deer Park Villa

Wedding story · Foreign Cinema · Clarion Alley · Mark Hopkins Hotel

Wedding story · Mendocino Grove

Wedding story · Roblar Farm

Wedding story · The St. Regis San Francisco
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