Wine Country weddings!! Jenny and Coleman tied the knot at the BR Cohn Winery in Sonoma, Ca. Moy Photography was lucky enough to work with this Hollywood couple. This was a destination wedding for the two, and boy was it an awesome experience for the couple’s friends and family as well as Moy Photography.

The wedding photography was definitely beautiful up there in the wine country away from foggy San Francisco. Unfortunately for us San Francisco wedding photographers, the weather has been pretty cold this past summer. But once you’re out of the city, weather is just great, which makes for great pictures.

Here are the highlights.  Congrats Jenny and Coleman!

Cathy and Bobby Wedding Day Highlight from Moy Studios on Vimeo.

Earlier this year we did Bobcat’s enagement photos and they came out great.  There was no disappointment here because their wedding video came out just as great and what an awesome wedding!

The wedding took place at the Hyatt in Santa Rosa.  It was an outside ceremony with a beautiful area for a wedding.  The reception had a candy bar which we always enjoy =).  The decor was very nicely done.

   Congrats to both Cathy and Bobby.  Enjoy the highlights

Carlin and Vince actually came to us via several different referrals which was kind of strange.  We had done Connie’s wedding earlier last year and apparently they are friends.  At the same time Vince found us through one of our assistants or what not.  Both of them ended up contacting me but didnt know it so I thought it was two seperate weddings!   I had to ask if they were each others fiances and they did not realize they had both contacted me.  Anyway it turned out all good, and here is the story of their day.

We started off a Chinese tea ceremony at both Carlin’s and Vince’s parents house where the bride and groom paid their respects to their elders and recieved gifts from family for this special occasion.  The wedding party graciously helped and assisted them with tea and putting on the gifts.

After the ceremony was done we went to Treasure Island for a wedding party photography shoot.  We recently started using this area for some engagement photos but this was the first wedding party we ever took and there and the results were pretty spectacular!  The weather was great (at least on the photos, but the bridesmaids will tell you it was FREEZING!). 

The night ended at Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae with the reception.  Great wedding and lots of fun for us.  Congrats to Carlin and Vince again.. enjoy the highlights!

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Can someone tell me what was going on with 7-10-2010?  There must have been 10 other weddings going on when we were shooting on location that day, but that didnt stop us from getting our photos of Soraya and Gerardo’s wedding.

Soraya and Gerardo were preparing at different locations so we split our team up this time.  It trial by fire for two our newest members to the Moy Photography team, Alistair and Kenny Chow.  They didnt crash and burn so everything came out great!  Both bride and groom had an army of people helping them get ready and as well as goofing off!  Gerardo and his groomsmen were very animated and definitely showed they had a lot of fun.

We started off at Soraya’s hotel room, and Jay went to Gerardo’s place for preparation.  We ended up meeting at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City, where the ceremony was held.  Definitely had alot of fun taking that huge group picture in the church.

We then headed to San Francisco to the Legion of Honor for some group wedding pictures we must have waited in line for 30 minutes to use the location.  There were at least 4 other weddings coming up for photos, it was insane.  We closed the night at Crowne Plaza in Foster City, with dinner, dancing and wine.  The venue was set with accent lighting, and a huge head table that encompased 2 levels of people!

It was a lot of fun for all of us, especially for our two new guys.  Congrats again.  Here are the highlights.  Enjoy!

We spent the entire afternoon working with Jennie and Dan traveling around the shores of San Francisco.  We picked an alternate location from the norm and decided to go to fort point.  We’ve been trying to travel to new sites and give some new perspective on other sites of San Francisco for engagement photos.  Fort Point is an old civil war fort right underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.  Since roof access is available we took our lovely couple up there to do some nice portraits.  The fort has a solid concrete spiral stair case that has very interesting lines and makes for great pictures!

We then moved on to Pier 1 in San Francisco and finished off our day with them at Stow Lake where they changed into their Dragon Boat jerseys.  They brought their paddles as well for some of the engagement photos.  This is how the couple met so they definitely wanted some pictures of how that all unfolded. 

We’ve got a video in the works with them and this time its an interview style fusion piece so keep your eyes out for that and their upcomming wedding in October!  It was a hell of a day, thanks for working with us Jennie and Dan, cant wait to shoot your wedding!

Enjoy the highlights!

Ya vast mateys!  Theres TREASURE OUT THERE on them islands.  Actually there isnt.. its  a bunch of land fill that the Navy built out ages ago and now only the coast guard remains.  BUT, it provides a hell of a view for the bay area.  Awesome views of the skyline of downtown San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, and Golden Gate Bridge.  We took Cathy and Bobby out there for an awesome engagement session.

Of course we end up on the beach as Bobby proposed to Cathy on the beach and it was something that was very special to them.  So ahoy! More beach photos.

Fantastic couple to work with, and I cant wait to work with them again.  We’ll be doing their wedding this August so keep an eye out for their wedding later on.

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco can have endless possibilities for photo shoots.  This time we decided to do our engagement shoot starting at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.  Sharon and Tyler met working in a lab at Kaiser, so if you’re wondering why there are lab coats in a “dream sequence”, thats why.

They are a beautiful couple and they came out with an awesome set of pictures.  We stayed so late at Bakers Beach trying to finish up our photoshoot that we got kicked out by the cops!  Cops are no fun!

Keep an eye out for their wedding photos this Sept, it will be here before you know it!

Enjoy!

Yanina and Tony Wedding Hightlights from Moy Studios on Vimeo.

A while back we posted Yanina and Tony’s wedding day highlights.  I finally got around to editing their wedding day highlight video.  We were able to get them from start to finish so we got the full story on video as well as photo.  It was an incredible day for everyone!  Their locations were great especially the Palm Event Center.  Great setting, mood and a remote location.  Anyways please enjoy!

One evening I decided to call Vy up and say hey Vy, dont you live 20 blocks from me?  Lets do your engagement shoot uhh next Saturday!  Vy and I have been friends for a while and I know shes getting married next year so I figured what a nice gift to give to a friend!  So I called the guys out and we decided to do a set of engagement photos as well as a video!  We picked Golden Gate Park and Marin headlands as our shoot locations.

The waterfall at Stow Lake is always an awesome place to shoot.  Its one of the few waterfalls in Golden Gate Park and its a great place to walk your dog.. well except when they freak out and fall into the water and get all dirty in your car on the way back.  Theres nothing worse than a wet stinky golden retriever named Sophie but I digress!

We then moved onto Marin Headlands but our time was cut short due to weather.  The storm rolled in @ 50 degree weather with -10 degree windchill and a sandstorm.  Yeah it sounds like Im making it up but ask Vy and Telemachus how many times I said INCOMING when the wind blew up all the dust and sand into our faces.  Anywho, great e-session.  If you want to see the video highlight visit our video site at Moy Studios here.

We were invited back to shoot the Linux Collaboration Summit again this year by the Linux Foundation.   This collaboration summits Linux has are for all the great Linux minds to get together, share and develop Linux.  I have a huge tech background so listening on their keynotes and market perspectives are always interesting, plus I get to photography them! 

It was held at the Hotel Kabuki  in Japantown, San Francisco and was a fairly large group of people.  Something like 500 attendants.  They even gave away the Google Nexus One phones to everyone attending!  Everyone who was a paid attendee that is.. (that means I didnt get one =(… )

The after party was much closer this time at Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Restaurant.  Great atmosphere for events and even weddings!  They even had guitar hero going on upstairs!

Great event, and if you havent seen the highlight video, check it out here on our Moy Studios site.  The video can be viewed here.

Enjoy