featured | style me pretty | santa barbara wedding

Hello lovelies! We are just beyond excited that Style Me Pretty has featured A+D’s Santa Barbara Biltmore Wedding in their recent blog post! Check the post out here!

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Lovely vendors of the day:
VENUE // The Biltmore Four Seasons Resort, Santa Barbara CA
EVENT COORDINATION+STYLING // Lovely Jubilee
FLORALS // Seed Floral Couture
EVENT DESIGN // Throws Confetti
LIGHTING // Bella Vista Designs
DJ // Dynamic Mobile Entertainment
BAND + JAZZ BAND TRIO // No Vacancy Entertainment
WEDDING INVITES // Throws Confetti
PHOTOGRAPHY // Vivian Sachs Photography

a decade in the making

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It’s been 10 years for JE and we had a great time celebrating their 10 year anniversary at the Folsom Street Foundry. It was great to see some faces that we’ve had the pleasure of working with the past few years, as well as many new fresh faces! Here’s just a rundown of all the lovelies that we got to work with. All these photos are on JE’s website as well 🙂

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editorial | menagerie

We’re excited to share our menagerie editorial shoot, inspired by old world antiques, aged wood and metals, and taxidermy. The palettes of antique neutral tones with dashes of blush pink, amarillo and blue-greens go perfectly well with the vintage and lacy dresses.

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Hair + makeup // Joli de Jackie
Inspiration decor + design + custom invites // Charmed  Events
Antiques // Big Daddy Antiques
Taxidermy collection // Jon Weston
Dresses // Sonthai Gi
Models // Emily + David
Photo Assistants // Lanae Roxas

Featured | Green Wedding Shoes Top Inspiration Shoots of 2012

We were delighted to find one of our shoots from 2012 named as one of Green Weddings Shoes Top Inspiration Shoot of 2012.

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Here’s the official link to the GWS article as well 🙂

This new year is already off to a good start and we are definitely looking forward to more beautiful events and shoots this year! Cheers!

newsworthy | natalie and kylie

Congratulations to little Natalie, one of our model portfolio regulars, who just landed a gig with fabkids.com and Restoration Hardware after submitting photos from a session with us. It’s been a pleasure knowing and working with Natalie, her little sister and mother. Natalie and her little sister, Kylie, have been shooting their model portfolios with us at least twice a year since Natalie started walking and they’re landing gigs left and right from some of our photos! Super exciting for them and us!

Another one of Natalie on fabkids.com

Natalie in Restoration Hardware Holiday 2012

Natalie for Wells Fargo Spring 2011.

Here’s Natalie’s younger sister, Kylie, working her thing for Old Navy.

Kylie for Janie and Jack as well 🙂 What a cutie!

We’re so proud of these girls and super excited for what they have in store for us. Until our next session 🙂

featured | delighted magazine

We’re excited about Delighted Magazine’s new Fall 2012 issue today, featuring Clay and Stephanie’s wedding at Holland Ranch in Paso Robles. Their wedding was filled with details and pretty many things 🙂 Take a peek inside Delighted Magazine for more photos!

featured | eco-beautiful weddings

Just a little bit of the goodness that’s coming this week! This beautiful bouquet by DK Designs provided some inspiration for this issue’s Etsy Love Challenge. We can’t wait to see the Summer 2012 issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings with our two-page spread.  See the full issue here.

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featured | la petite peach

One of our favorite baby photos featuring Drew was published today in La Petite Peach. This baby session is one that we hold dear to us and we are excited that he is featured today!

When we first met Drew, his mom had mentioned Drew had congenital heart disease. Drew is such a ham and upon knowing this, made my heart melt. Hearing that such a precious little child have to endure such turmoil in such early stages in life is a little hard, not to mention the pain his parents probably felt during the whole event. I can relate, especially since I know that my parents had to go through the same situation with me. Good to say though, after seeing Drew and his family for a session before his first birthday, Drew is as rambunctious as any other healthy baby and still quite the cutie!

Here’s to Drew!

Happy Friday, everyone!

featured | Green Wedding Shoes – PAN AM Inspired Wedding

Inspired by the hit ABC show, PAN AM, Frances of Charmed Events Group did a wonderful job creating an inspiration wedding based off of the PANAM era, capturing the airline’s main details, motifs and spirit. The color palette of sky blue, navy blue and yellow was one that we fell in love with after this shoot. Beside the color scheme, design motifs of stripes and hot air balloons added that dash of whimsy that would make hearts wither.

We were privileged to have the opportunity to shoot on the facilities of the Oakland Aviation Museum, where a myriad of vintage planes lounged, including one of only two authentic PAN AM planes that remain today (the other one is nearly dilapidated and sits in New Zealand – the one we shot on was the one they used during filming of the first Indian Jones movie – how exciting is that?!).

There were so many great images and we’re going to share just a few more of our favorites that weren’t in the feature 😉  Be sure to view more photos and read the feature here!

A short film by Viet Mac was also shot during this shoot, so get ready to “fly away with us” with all the design and details captured at the Oakland Aviation Museum!

It was such a pleasure to work with such a talented team of creatives!

featured | Reserve Your Best Angle! via Refinery 29

For a limited time only, Vivian Sachs Photography and huge global fashion blog Refinery29 are pairing up to offer the special peoples one awesome deal.
Check it out and take advantage of this SPECIAL DEAL soon before it’s gone!

“Hey kid, you oughta be in pictures…and we don’t mean on Facebook. We’re talking on non-virtual, real-life wall, in a frame, striking a pose that doesn’t involve tongues or someone throwing out a peace sign and looking serious about it. Don’t get us wrong: we love self-shot bar photos as much as the next person, but is that really how you want to remember yourself ten years (or ten minutes) from now? We’re going to assume not. So what’s the alternative? A personal photo shoot with Vivian Sachs, one of San Francisco’s premier photographers is what we call the ultimate alternative. And this ain’t no Glamour Shots—with her work featured in publications from The New York Times to Glamour Magazine, this gal knows how to take a picture with exactly the right mixture of style, authenticity and whimsy. Like you’d hang her shots on your walls even if you weren’t looking like a rockstar in them. So grab your girlfriends, your fam, your bf (p.s. if you’re engaged and haven’t booked your engagement photographer yet—uh, hellew!), or go solo. Whatever you do, make sure you snag this ultra-VIP offer because it’s not likely to come around again. Besides, don’t you want to capture this very special moment in this crazy thing we call life? Yes, we’re joking, but in a we’re-actually-serious kind of way.

Camera-shy? We’ve got a little something extra that’s sure to make you more comfortable. For a limited time, you can book a one-and-a-half hour photo session with Vivian Sachs herself for just $154 (normally priced at $350)! You can sport up to two looks in one location within twenty-five miles of S.F. and be as creative as you like when it comes to theme, props, etc. And if you want help in the hair and makeup department, Vivian can help––just contact her for a quote! When all’s said and done, you’ll come away with a keepsake CD of professionally edited, high-resolution images that you and your family and friends will want to plaster all over your walls (Facebook, living room, and otherwise). Besides, isn’t time for a new profile pic?”

love love love

Love is in the air.
We wrapped up our very first Vivian Sachs Photography promotional commercial campaign with a great crew yesterday! Below is a baby teaser of what’s to come:


Thanks to everyone who helped on the project for all their hard work and creative juice flowing antics! It was an awesome experience for us and we’re excited for the finished product!

Featured: Interview with 7×7 Magazine

When it comes to wedding photography, Vivian Sachs likes to get in on the ground floor, as in the engagement photo session. But these days, engagement photos—the pictures couples commission to announce the big event—have the rep for being outdated and somewhat tacky. Sachs, who specializes in pre-wedding photography that’s more sweet than saccharine, believes it’s time to take a new look at the old tradition.


Recently, 7×7 asked to interview us for our top 10 tips for the perfect engagement photos. We gladly spoke!

View the article here!