As promised a while back, we have some photos from Anita & Vivek’s wedding at the Palm Event Center!  The festivities started out on a Thursday night with a Sangeet at the groom’s parent’s house.  The first shot below is one of the many amazing performances at the Sangeet.  If you’re not familiar with Indian weddings, the Sangeet is a party thrown by the grooms family where the friends and family of the to-be-weds are asked to entertain the bride and groom.  The talent shown at the Sangeets absolutely amazes me!  I think if my friends and family had to put on performances we’d be lucky to have an off-key ‘Kumbaya’ and someone doing the Molly Ringwold…

The wedding itself followed on Saturday at the Palm Event Center.  Every detail was absolutely beautiful!  Anita showed incredible taste in all of her decisions about decor and then there was the food… OH MY GOD! Delicious!  Hopefully you can tell from the photos, that everyone had a great time at this wedding.  Want to see some more?  Check out the slideshow

Some of the details:

• Reception Venue: Palm Event Center, Pleasanton, California
• Wedding Coordination: Puneet & Tammy, Ajooba Events
• MakeUp: Nia of Exquisite Faces
• Catering: Tumeric
• Photography by: Lisa & James (of course)

We’ve got a TON of great stuff in the works right now, but we are so busy shooting that it’s hard to get new work on the blog.  So, until we can update more thoroughly, here’s a taste from Anita & Vivek’s wedding at the Palm Event Center.  And if you want to eat some AMAZING indian food while you wait, go to Tumeric in Sunnyvale.  It’s out of this world good!

One of the best things about photographing weddings in the Bay Area is that there is no shortage of beautiful locations to shoot.  Every year we still are asked to shoot at places we have never been before, so things stay fresh and creatively challenging.  This past weekend, Lisa & I, after years of waiting, finally had a chance to shoot at Nestldown.  Since we’re so excited about the photos from Kim & Jeff’s wedding, I thought I’d put up a teaser post of the images.  More to come soon…

Several times a year we are fortunate enough to be asked to shoot a wedding at BR Cohn Winery in Glen Ellen.  I’m not sure what it is, but we always click really well with our BR Cohn couples.  Maybe whatever it is in their personality that causes the couple to choose this laid back venue among olive trees and grape vines somehow jives with our own relaxed personalitites.  In any case, we love BR Cohn, and we had a great time shooting Katie and Jesse’s recent wedding on Fox Hill.  These two made great choices regarding their wedding design and budget. It felt that every penny was spent in a conscientious manner and anything that mattered to Katie + Jesse reflected great quality.  For example, instead of housing all of their out of town family in hotels, they opted to go through vrbo.com and rent a house in Glen Ellen (which is what Lisa and I often do when we shoot out of town weddings).  They also chose to get an AWESOME Model T hot rod which brought a ton of style per dollar.  One place they saved some money was on the cake by having Katie’s aunt doctor up a store bought cake.

I can prattle on about wedding details and logistics forever.  If you are curious about any of that, don’t hesitate to ask.  In any case, we hope you enjoy the photos!

We’ve had a great time shooting mid-week weddings this year at the San Francisco City Hall.  So much so, we’ve created a collection just for those couples who choose to not go with a big, elaborate, expensive, traditional wedding.  Check out our page on the San Francisco City Hall Wedding Special