This is the engagement portrait session that we did during my trip to NewYork in end of October. It’s a great trip to cover Cynthia & John’s wedding at central park. And after 2 days, we shot this portrait session. It was raining, but it didn’t turned down our passion at all. We had a lot of fun in the rain. Thanks Lulu & Giovanni for showing us the beautiful sites in the city. We really fell in love with central park and stayed there for quite a while. Then we took a cab to SOHO. It’s my first time to visit SOHO and I love it.

We moved into our new house in August. We should call for a house warming party when we moved in, but we have been shooting weddings every Saturday and engagement session every Sunday until last week. So finally, we got a weekend for ourselves and we can call for a house warming party.

We have about 40 friends showed up at the party. Thanks a lot for coming. It’s cold outside, but you guys made our new home not just warm, but very hot. We had a great time together and I hope all of you had some fun. We still have 3 extra large pizza leftover, it’s going to be my lunch and dinner today. We were worried that we might be short of drink. But with everyone bringing a bottle, we now have over 20 bottles of wine leftover. So we have to call another party next year sometime. You guys need to come again to kill it. Julia & I were so excited the whole night. We were so happy to see all of you and get some updates. We are happy to see that those party and clubbing lovers switch to much healthier activities like hiking in the morning. I will try to join you guys next year, but it’s tough for me, tougher for Julia, who normally wakes up in the afternoon. The party is in a very short notice, so some of friends are out of town and cannot make it. We will try to call the party again and catch up with you. And thanks so much for sending those warm words to us and we can feel the love.

I am sure Yilun had a good time, his sexy look can tell:

We are so happy that many of our friends love the furnitures we bought and ask us where we got them. Many thanks to Pandora, one of our best friend. She is the best interior designer and she recommended “Drexel Heritage” to us. We became a huge fan of “Drexel Heritage” and got all the furniture from them. We like their design: Classic. And hopefully: Timeless.

For Dinnerware & Drinkware, we are big fan of “Crate&Barrel” and their sister store “CB2″. We like rich color:

Look at Wade and little Wade, do they exactly look like the same?

Again, sincere thanks for bringing us a fun night. Hope to see you at New Year’s time.

It’s ethan’s 5 years birthday party. We were so happy to be part of the party and we had a lot of fun with these cute and lovely girls and boys. It really brought us back the happy memories of childhood. Let’s take a look of the fun time there:

Alexey & Sveta met up with us about 4 weeks ago, and we shot their engagement session 2 weeks after our first meetup, and now it’s their big day.  When we got to their ceremony and reception site, “Wow..”, it’s a big wow. We didn’t expect that they can plan such a beautiful wedding in such a short time. 4 weeks to plan such a dream wedding. Also thanks to Nicole Lisanne, the amazing wedding planner. Nicole put everything so well organized, and it was a great experience to work together with such an experienced wedding planner.

Ceremony & Reception site: Silver Creek Valley Country Club
Wedding planner: Nicole Lisanne
Wedding co-ordinator of the site: Risa Coler
Floral Designer: Precious and Blooming
Lighting Designer: North American Theater Technology Company
Bakery: Bijan
Let’s sneak peek the beautiful day for some photos, I am sure everyone is waiting to see the photos from here:
We started to cover the getting ready session at Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.

The cake is just amazing. It’s my first time for me to see a white chocolate castle cake, such a fairy tale cake:

It’s the big day for Liuyi & Michael. We are really lucky to be able to spend the day with them together, experience and have fun. We split the wedding day coverage into 2 session. We had a morning session from 10 AM to 12 PM to cover the civil ceremony at San Francisco city hall, then we had a great lunch break and did a portrait session in the afternoon and evening time from 3PM to 7PM. Liu & Michael were so excited the whole day. 2 days after the wedding, when Michael and Liuyi invited us for a great dinner, Liuyi told us:”Danny, I just realized that I had been laughing and smiling for the whole day, and there is only one expression for all photos: the smile. And I forgot to be cool”. Isn’t that great? Liuyi is so cute and we really love Liuyi’s smile, the happiness is from the heart and can impress people. Liuyi & Michael met us only 3 weeks ago, before my trip to New York. I was worried that they might be short of time for preparation. But they did a great job. Again, many thanks for our great makeup artist: Ann Ho. She did an amazing work as always. I couldn’t count how many weddings we collaborate together this year, but I am pretty sure, we will collaborate more the next year.Let’s start to sneak peek a few wedding day photos:

The morning session at SF city hall:

The afternoon and evening portrait session in San Francisco city