On their 1533rd day of being a couple, Yang brought Xiaofei out to a beautiful San Francisco coastside view of the Golden Gate Bridge for a few selfies together under a colorful sunset sky. With the waves splashing down below them and seagulls flying off in the distance, it was here that Yang asked Xiaofei to marry him. [ read more … ]

Martina and Adam have been together for almost a decade, and they’ve already started a family together — the two of them and their pet bunny 🙂 Now that their wedding is coming up, we went into the beautiful outdoors for a winter engagement session. [ read more … ]

Long-distance relationships are hard (we would know!)… and certainly even more of a challenge in COVID times. So we have a ton of respect and admiration for those couples with the strength and dedication to make it work. Last weekend, R’s girlfriend was going to be in town for just a couple of days, and he had a beautiful surprise proposal planned out way in advance at this San Francisco lookout. We were pretty excited to have the opportunity to capture it all for them! And we even managed to sneakily record a video of the whole thing [ read more … ]

COVID-19 has really put a hamper on going out and on travel in particular, but love doesn’t stop and love doesn’t wait. Last week, Michael brought Lexus down to this perfect Golden Gate Bridge vantage point to surprise her with the question. But before they made their way there, he smoothly got Lexus to hop on a video call so that her family could see it happen. In a true reflection of the times, in these photos below you’ll see them both wearing masks during the proposal, and Lexus holding her phone for the video call. One of my favorite things about this proposal, by the way, is how the mask covers Lexus’s face, but her emotion and joy have no trouble shining right through it. [ read more … ]

Just over a year ago, we quietly hid in the (figurative) bushes as Jason and Xiaonan took a walk through the quiet and sheltered Muir Woods, until they ended up on one of the wooden bridges where he proposed (and where, of course, she said yes!). They decided to do something a little different and have an oceanside sunset engagement shoot, out in the open, under a warm sunset sky with the fresh ocean breeze all around them. [ read more … ]