Bianca x Bronson ||Wedding

You know you're a hardcore USC Football fan when you delay your wedding ceremony time just so you can watch the game. The wedding ceremony started at around 7pm. This gave us plenty of time to photograph Bianca and Bronson before the wedding. We headed for the Browers Museum to do the first glance. The architecture and scenery at Browers gave us plenty of nice locations to do our thing. I think doing the first glance is great because I have more time and freedom to do nice portraits of the bride and groom. Bianca looked stunning and Bronson was one cool dude.

2nd for: Miguel Pola

1st glace location: Browers Museum

Reception: The Hacienda Restaurant in Santa Ana

~Ari

When I walked into the room, I knew I would have a good time with these dudes because everyone was cheering for the USC football team. (USC whiped Ohio State 18-15 that day!) Wooot WoOOot!

Fight On. >V<

The first glance. Bronson was crazy nervious!

The Bowers Museum is a great place to get photographed.

It's not over until the fat lady puts her clothes back on! Don't quote me on this, but I think this statue is by Fernando Botero.

The toast.

Cake!

This is my fav.

Tags: Wedding photography at The Bowers Museum, The Hacienda in Santa Ana, Anaheim weddings, Double tree Hotel in Anaheim, Wedding in Rancho Capistrano, Orange County Wedding Photographer, USC Football Wedding

Arcie x Jun || Wedding

This is the cutest couple ever. They call themselves “His Sunshine” and “Her Sunshine.” You can tell that they really do brighten up each other’s lives. Jun is probably one of the chillest/coolest/illest dudes I’ve ever met. And Arcie is just a total sweetheart. These two truly do belong together.

On the wedding day, before the ceremony started, Arcie eagerly waited in her limo parked outside the church. I ran towards the limo to get a quick shot of her. As I opened the door to the limo, there she was, tearing up all by herself. It then hit me that this is it- this is the day she’s been waiting for; probably one of the happiest days of her life. For Arcie, at that point in time, nothing else really seemed to matter--only who was waiting for her inside that church, preparing to take her hand in marriage. I totally got chills after Arcie finished wiping off that first set of tears. Whoa, crazy. It’s moments like these that remind me why I love doing what I do.

Arcie’s walk down the isle was picture perfect. You see and FEEL her excitement and anticipation as her parents delivered her down the isle. Even more emotional was the father/daughter dance. The way Arcie tightly clinged to her dad and crying into his shoulder said it all.

Thank you for letting me be apart of your special day “Junarcie.”

Church location: St. Clements Church - Hayward, California

Reception location: Sunol Valley Golf Club

2nd shooter: Quan D Nguyen (Thanks for coming out to help dude!)

~Ari

Tags: Hayward Wedding, Bay Area Weddings, Suncol Valley Golf Club Wedding, Ari Wedding

Krstina x Ran || WEDDING

This was my first Jewish wedding held on top of the Marriott Hotel in Marina del Rey. The ceremony was on the helipad, overlooking the whole city. The view was breathe taking and the decorations were pertty amazing. I love it when I get to photograph a wedding that's filled with beautiful decor and good looking people. Krstina's wedding had all of this and more. I had a great time shooting this wedding with the one only Greg Bumatay.

Location: Marina del Rey - Marriott Hotel

2nd for : Greg Bumatay

~Ari