wedding

Doing the flowers for my friends’ weddings is a joy! It’s so fun to go to the Wholesale Flower Mart – pick out the best of everything and make something beautiful together that will last in their wedding photos forever. Margaret had a vision for her wedding that started with a whole bunch of olive branches…

Easter weekend is a lovely time for a bridal shower, especially if you’re honoring someone as great as Margaret! Spring is the air, everyone has pretty dresses, out-of-town family are visiting. For this shower, I planned an easy menu with plenty of options for the gluten-free guests. Menu Tea, lavender lemonade and champagne Spring crudités…

Rob and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary last weekend. A perfect time to share the results of having a painter, instead of a photographer, document our Sausalito wedding ceremony and reception. This was back in 2008, when Rob and I were still occasionally photographing weddings on weekends as a favor to friends. Rob was using…

Yesterday, I showed you the wedding paintings that Paul Ferney made for the preparations and ceremony at our 2008 event. Today, I’ll show you his photos from the reception. Starting with probably my favorite of all the wedding paintings: a small simple portrait in the window seat at the Sausalito Women’s Club: Along with our…

To finish up the recap, I have a wedding slideshow for you of all my favorite shots from our photographer and friends. I think it does well at telling the story of our day. Photos always seem to look so nice in that large, black-framed format. Click here to see the slideshow. And happy Halloween!…

Our caterer served chilled bottles of limonata to the guests as the evening wound down (Thank you Susan!). We weren’t around for this part, of course. It seems nice though. I like the cozy atmosphere in the photo of people getting ready to head home. I’m going to be gone tomorrow for a friend’s wedding.…

I’m a firm believer in the grand finale! Always best to end a wedding with a bang. Our guests were lined up outside armed with ribbon wands and plenty of birdseed (seriously, plenty. I was shedding birdseed for days). We ran the gauntlet armed with our overnight bags to our adorably decorated little Honda. And…

On to the second act of the show! This was the sing-along portion and a little more relaxed. We started with a version of Ring of Fire by our motley “band.” We had two guitars, one uke, one bass, one singer, a tambourine, a trumpet and a recruited friend on a shaking bean! Not the…

Per request from Lena in Norway, here are a few more photos of my dresses in action. The first and best dress was my great grandmothers. It’s made of three pieces of handmade Point d’Alencon lace from France. Can you believe that the whole skirt with train is one seamless piece?! I think you can…

Mmm….wedding cheesecakes from Carnegie Deli in New York. These were so tasty. We stacked and decorated them ourselves. My sister made the bird cake toppers and bought the vintage cake knife and server (pst…it’s actually a fish knife). The caterer had more cheesecakes behind the scenes to cut up and serve with a berry sauce…