Corey and Chris – San Francisco

I must tell you San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world and I thrilled to shoot there this weekend. I flew up a couple days early to meet up with some other photographers. Thursday night I had dinner with my good buddy Peter Atherton and on Friday lunch with new friends Ed Pingol and his wife Monica. Friday evening I attended the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. The weather kind of scared us, it was overcast and really, really windy! After dinner I went out with Jake a former groom of mine to meet up with some of his friends. We went to this awesome bar which happened to be an old ‘Speakeasy.’ We had a reservation and we had to have a password, you would never even know the bar existed from the street. The clandestine entrance was a tiny unmarked door on the side of a black wall, no sign, nothing! Anyway, the password was “milk-toast”, for those of you not familiar with the term. Milk toast is actually a dish with buttered toast served in milk , but in the country we subtitled cornbread for the toast and then sometimes added black pepper and onions. It really is yummy with good cornbread! So the expression “milk-toast” came to be know as a softy or pantywaist… Back to the bar. The ambiance was awesome; a super high ceiling covered with stamped tin, romantic chandelers, dark wood, mirrors, and molding ran throughout the place. The drink list was huge featuring a special concoction nightly! The most fascinating thing to me was a second bar which entrance was hidden behind a bookshelf built into the wall. Appropriately enough the bar was called the ‘Library’. The Library had a total different vibe with books to the ceiling, chill music, no seating it was definitely a place to socialize.

Saturday the weather cleared up for us but it was still a bit windy. The wedding took place on Treasure Island which is on your way to Oakland across the Bay Bridge. It’s a phenomenal view of the city! We started in the city at Hotel Union Square with the girls getting ready and the couple first meeting, then went down Powell St. to shoot with some cable cars and final over to Sixth Street, sort of a “skid row” type area to get some colorful graffiti art before leaving to Treasure Island. Check out the gallery below, these are the shots I pulled out at the reception. My favorites are: shoes, Corey in the hotel hallway, girls with the brick wall (that was my hotel room by the way, check out before I turned it into a studio HERE), guys walking in the road, and couple with SF skyline #58. Enjoy!