wedding | sara + gregory

It’s one thing to fall in love with someone…

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love again before your eyes, and to feel a responsibility towards capturing that love on camera.
Well, Lacey captured every detail of Sara and Gregory’s day beautifully 🙂

They’ll be each others’ sunset.

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VENUE \\ Hillsborough Racquet Club – Hillsborough, CA
PHOTOGRAPHY \\ Lacey for Vivian Sachs Photography

wedding | maryann + kevin

Just a few of our favorite shots from Maryann and Kevin’s special day. They wanted a few snaps prior to their intimate dinner reception to remember their special day 🙂

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Photographs by Mark for Vivian Sachs Photography

portrait | luke and company

Family isn’t an important thing.
It’s everything.

Happy holidays, everyone!

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engagement | jessica + justin

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love, of generosity and of goodness. That’s why we thought it was sweet when Jessica told us how Justin proposed just a few weeks before Christmas last year. And now, we had the pleasure of capturing more memories for them just before the holidays.

wedding | carlyn + ben

We had a great time shooting this Moonrise Kingdom themed wedding for Carlyn and Ben. When they first approached us, it was hard to resist because we’re huge fans of Wes Anderson’s movies!

how deep is your seoul

A quick hiatus in Seoul sparked a fun-fact about couple pairing, but first some photos 😉

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Apparently, in South Korea, blood type is a big deal.

It doesn’t just deliver oxygen to the rest of your body—it determines your personality. People in South Korea are automatically stereotyped thanks to their blood type. While this belief originated in Japan, it has taken a firm hold in South Korean culture, and it might even make a difference in who marries whom.

There are positive and negative traits assigned to each blood type:

People with Type A are thought to be conservative and punctual, but they can be also obsessive, uptight, and a bit introverted. However, they think that cheating on their romantic partners is wrong and will thus be extremely loyal.

People with Type B are a totally different story. While they have some good traits like creativity and passion, they’re also willing to cheat on their partners, lazy, and impatient. There’s even a South Korean movie called My Boyfriend is Type B, a romantic comedy about a Type A girl who falls for a Type B boy and has to deal with his impulsive nature.

As for Type AB, they’re supposed to be cool and under control, but they can be elitist, harsh, and judgmental.

Type O means a person is ambitious and athletic. They want big things in life, and nothing is going to stand in their way. On the flip side, they’re pompous and egotistical, but once they decide to commit to a relationship, they’re generally pretty loyal.

So if you ever visit South Korea, you might want to figure out your blood type first—someone is going to ask eventually.

A special type of kindness

We all like “real” people.
Genuine people who have no need for pretense.
But to become one of them you must first practice kindness toward yourself.
Here’s why you should be kind to yourself.
It causes you to be more open to other people.
Kindness towards yourself gives you the confidence to open your real self to others.
But what does “be kind to yourself” actually mean?
It means you stop saying things to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a good friend.
It means you build yourself up even after you make mistakes.
It means you take time to appreciate what you like about your appearance when looking in the mirror.
It means laughing at your mistakes and loving yourself anyway.
This is a special sort of kindness.
 Of all the people you interact with in your life, there’s one person you have the most power to influence.
It’s yourself.
Be careful not to abuse that power.
Use it for good.
Kindness toward yourself gives you the confidence to come out of your shell.
As your confidence goes up, you will naturally allow others to see the real you.
The version of you who has no need to hide.
This is the most attractive version of you.
Because nothing dispels loneliness more than interacting with a person like that.
A person who is real.
Be that person.
It’s who you were meant to be.

portrait | dahae + erik

They say that when our bodies change from lifetime to lifetime, our eyes stay the same and you can recognize someone from a previous lifetime in this manner.

Dahae is one of these individuals whom this connection was sparked.
She was a bridesmaid for her friend, Michelle’s, wedding, whom we had shot a few years back in San Francisco. She went out of her way to offer a helping hand the entire day while sharing her hopes of one day meeting the man of her dreams.

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Well… she recently found the man of her dreams and is happily married.
She met Erik in Sweden and it’s quite fateful that their passion and work in music led them to each other. They tied the knot twice, once in Sweden and then in Korea.
It’s funny because we think it is again fateful that work brought them both out to San Francisco again so that we could catch up with her and her new hubbie, Erik.

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portrait | aidan

There’s something about being young that we must not ever forget, as Samuel Ullman puts it best:

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.”

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