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Jessie and Pete – Sofitel Suites Ceremony and Palace of Fine Arts Wedding Video Highlights

Kenny — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:12:33 +0000

We had a really busy weekend with back to back shoots! Our Saturday was filled with Jessie and Pete’s wedding where we made a return to the Sofitel Suites in Redwood Shores. The hotel is a very upscale trendy location with a man made lake which makes for a great view from the top.

Jessie and Pete Wedding Day Highlights from Kenny Moy on Vimeo.

Jessie and Pete started with a traditional Chinese wedding with the groom and groomsmen haggling for the bride. The bridesmaids like usual put them through some form of games to prove their worth! The ceremony was held at the suites and was a very private event with only family.

We then moved to the palace of fine arts for some wedding photos with the wedding party and family. We finished off with some portraits of the couple off in Crissy field. We ended the night with a reception at Koi Palace in Daly City. We were even able to squeeze this highlight reel and showed it at the reception!!

Here is our first wedding highlight reel with our new “fusion” offering. This incorporates both our video and photo work. More pictures to come soon! Enjoy!

Jessie and Pete – Santa Cruz, Ca – Steamer Lane Light House Engagement Photos

Kenny — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:12:24 +0000

It started off a gloomy typical Bay Area Feburary. Raining, wet, cold in the morning. As the afternoon came in, miraculously all the rain went away as if spring had arrived out of no where. Now, most of us who live here know it will rain probably until April so this was quite a surprise.

Jessie and Pete wanted their photos down in Santa Cruz by Steamer Lane Light house. Its a beautiful stretch of cliffs and beach just down the road from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The weather and scene was just phenomenal and made for some great engagement photos. There were many surfers out there this weekend as well as news crews to try and cover a tsunami as a result of the Chile Earthquake, but like Hawaii (and fortunately) it didnt hit our shores. So both counts brought masses of people out.

This was a change from our typical San Francisco engagement photo scene, so it was refreshing for us just to be somewhere else. We’re always open to shooting new locations and looking for beautiful scenery to add to our couples! Here are some highlights. Enjoy!

Their wedding is this weekend so keep an eye out for that coming soon!

Natalie and Jimmy – A Traditional Chinese and Christian Wedding Ceremony

Kenny — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:48:00 +0000

As a wedding photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area, we get to experience many weddings. One most dont have insight on unless you have participated in one (or you’re Chinese!) are traditional chinese weddings. Natalie and Jimmy had one over the weekend and being both Chinese and Christian had a mix of both types of wedding.

In the morning during prep, Natalie put on her traditional chinese long dress. With traditional Chinese weddings there is always a bartering for the bride. Bridesmaids will barter with the groomsmen to pick up the bride from her home. In this case there was some bartering and then some games in which to proove ones worth to the bride. As they passed the tests the awaiting bride was upstairs waiting for the groom.

We then followed a quick Chinese tea ceremony in which both sides of the family are poured tea and then exchange red envelopes for good luck. This is usually done for the brides family for mom, dad and siblings. Sometimes it extends to extended family but its all dependent on what your family follows typically.

When that side was all done, friends and family then were met at the church for a traditional church ceremony, and reception.

Great start to our first wedding of 2010! It was fun! Congrats to Natalie and Jimmy once again.

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Moy Photography Image of the Year 2009 Winner!

Kenny — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:57:10 +0000

The winner is…

Christina and Peter for an overwhelming 76 votes (that was almost half of all votes!). I want to thank all that participated and keep your eyes peeled for more work to be up throughout the year! Again the winner will be receiving a print of their choice!

A little about this shot. The picture was taken down by the Embarcadero, the background is of that ridiculously huge arrow shooting into the ground. The area has great scenery as you can clearly see all of the Bay Bridge from the San Francisco point of view and makes for awesome wedding shots! It was right around 3pmish and the sun was just looking over the buildings and I let Peter and Christina take over their euphoric wedding experience and captured it as I saw it.

Last days to vote for 2009 Moy Photography Image of the Year!

Kenny — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:55:37 +0000

Moy Photography 2009 Image of the Year

Its down to the remaining few days for Moy Photography 2009 Image of the year contest! Again the winner will recieve a free 30×40 print of their choice. You never know whats going to happen in the last few days, tell your friends and family to vote now!

Moy Photography Selected As Weddingwire’s Bride’s Choice Awards for 2010

Kenny — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:50:33 +0000

This is the 2nd year in a row we’ve recieved this! Heres the press release from Wedding Wire. Thanks for everyone that has reviewed me this year and allowed me to recieve this.

San Francisco, Ca – 1/19/2010 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Moy Photography has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Wedding Photography in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Moy Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Moy Wedding Photography is among the very best for wedding photography within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at Weddingwire.com.

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Moy Wedding Photography 2009 Image of the Year Contest

Kenny — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:20:04 +0000

Moy Photography had a busy 2009 for wedding photography in San Francisco for us. At the end of every year Im going to start the Moy Photography Image of the Year Contest. What I’ve rounded up my 10 favorite images from all my weddings this year and posted them up for voting. I wanted to make the top 50 but then we’d never have a winner!s

We had over 20 something weddings in 2009 so there were so many wedding photographs to choose from making it down to a selection of 10 was really hard! If you have a personal favorite you think should belong then email me and I will add it to this poll. The winner of this contest will win a free enlargement print of up to 30×40 image of their choice!! So if you’re on this list, send this link out and get your friends to vote for YOU.

So cmon, help select Moy Wedding Photography’s 2009 Image of the year by casting your vote!

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Results will be published and voting ends at the end of the month!

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Momentville.com Best of 2010 Award

Kenny — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:30:43 +0000

Looks like Momentville.com has chosen us to be “Best of 2010″ due to the number of positive reviews we’ve had on sites like weddingwire.com and yelp! So we get this nifty badge that tells us we’re doing something right for the world of Wedding Photography in San Francisco! 2010 is shaping up to be a busy season, so if you’re looking for someone to cover your wedding photography we are definitely up to the task! Inquire about your date today by calling 415-412-6469 or emailing us at info@moyweddingphotography.com. Happy new year!

Annie and Chance – A Wedding Shoot Around San Francisco

Kenny — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:18:24 +0000

This is something we dont always get to do, mostly because a wedding day can be so hectic! Everything is always on some kind of schedule and people are always rushing from one thing to the next. With Annie and Chance we got the chance to actually go around the city to shoot their wedding pictures for a couple hours! Plus it was a beautiful day to boot!

We visited some of the typical wedding photography genres of San Francisco and explored some new ones while we were at it. Pier 1, Bakers Beach is no stranger to our work, but we were able to get to the ferry building a bit this time and even hopped on a cable car at Ghiradelli Square!

Well, this about wraps up our 2009 wedding season, keep an eye out for our best of 2009 and some sneak peaks of what to come for next year! It should be very exciting for some of the venues we already have booked for next year =).

Here are the highlights from this one

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Rujjira and Jerry’s Wedding – Menlo Park Presbyterian and Hong Kong East Ocean Restaurant

Kenny — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:35:44 +0000

The day started as chaotic as they come. An early morning rain with clouds looming, everyone frantic trying to get ready for the ceremony, and about a million things moving around trying to all come together to form Rujjira and Jerry’s wedding day. As crazy as it always seems, things come together and work out in the end.

As we always try to capture the day with our photographs our team split up this time. One to capture the bride, the other the groom for preperation. Hair, makeup, dresses for the girls and well for the guys, they tried to throw Jerry off the second floor (yes we do have pictures! ) but it was all in fun.

We then made our way to Menlo Park Presbyterian church where they said I do in front of friends and family, then we moved on the some pictures by the famous Legion of Honor where nature kick us out last time at their engagement photos due to fog! But not this time.

We got to Hong Kong East Ocean just in time to watch the sunset and took a picture at dusk, probably one of the most amazing scenes I’ve seen all year! Followed by a wonderful dinner and touching speeches by the best man and the maid of honor, we finished the night with some dancing.

It was an awesome time working with the both of you, Rujjira, next time you put your arms around Jerry dont choke too hard =) !!!

Congrats.. here are the highlights. Enjoy

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