Erin & Kevin // A Mill Valley Wedding ft. The Outdoor Art Club

I think about memory a lot. It’s strange to me that, for the most part, memory seems to work a lot more like a snapshot of a moment rather than the rolling camera that is our life. We live in a video but remember in pictures.

One of the nice things about having some down time is that I get to go through a bunch of old work. Years have passed since this little wedding in September but there are two images that immediately come to mind when I think of it. The first is the amount of people wandering Mill Valley on the day Erin and Kevin were married. A wedding day is stressful enough, adding in a ton of traffic and some time delays due to an art festival can definitely heighten things. More importantly though is the second image, one of their family and friends. It’s a group of people bustling about trying to “keep their shit together”. Not from the crowds, or the schedule running a bit behind, but from a place of pure love and joy at watching two people close to them come together. Here’s a few images, just as they appear in my mind, from back in 2018 at the beautiful Outdoor Art Club in Mill Valley.

Kendra & Jordan // A Berkeley Wedding ft. The Brazilian Room & The University of California Botanical Garden

As Jordan read his vows during the ceremony there was a moment, on the quiet hilltop in Berkeley, that he was drowned out by motorcycles passing by below. At first he tried to power through it but the attempt didn’t last long. His parents, respectfully sitting in silence moments before, burst out laughing. The crowd joined in. Life doesn’t care about your plans, and that’s what makes this whole thing enjoyable. Here are a few snips from that day in the beginning of November, at the beautiful Brazilian Room.