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Muir Beach Wedding Photography Caili Chung

Every time I photograph a wedding I get inspiration for my own future wedding. I notice what I do and don’t like, what has the biggest impact on how enjoyable the night is, and what seems less necessary. Through wedding experience as a vendor, I developed my own wedding priorities for when I was planning […]

Caili’s Top wedding priorities: Where to Save vs. Splurge

Emily is the cutest person. In addition to being super down to earth, fashionable and kind. She couldn’t stop laughing the whole time. She grew up in Salt Lake City and recently graduated from Rowland Hall St. Marks high school. She’d been attending this school since she was very young so her transition into college […]

Emily’s Downtown Salt Lake City Senior Session | Rowland Hall St. Mark’s

Mount Tam Bolinas Ridge Engagements Caili Chung Photography

Tram and Allen told me they were guests at a wedding I photographed in December 2017. I’m always excited to hear from friends of Alan and Courtney because they had such an amazing party. So far everyone I’ve met from their circle is not only sweet and caring and smart but also so much fun. […]

Tram and Allen’s Engagements at Mount Tamalpais

Casa Bella Bay Area Wedding Photography Caili Chung

Every time I photograph a wedding I get inspiration for my own future wedding. I notice what I do and don’t like, what has the biggest impact on how enjoyable the night is, and what seems unnecessary. Through wedding experience, I have developed my own wedding priorities. While this list is completely based on Caili […]

Caili’s Second Tier wedding Priorities: Where to Save vs. Splurge

Garden Valley Ranch Wedding Pink Sparkly

Every time I photograph a wedding I get inspiration for my own future wedding. I notice what I do and don’t like, what has the biggest impact on how enjoyable the night is, and what seems unnecessary. Through wedding experience, I have developed my own wedding priorities. While this list is completely based on Caili […]

Caili’s Third Tier Wedding priorities: Where to Save vs. Splurge

Hakone Garden Japanese Saratoga Wedding Caili Chung Photography

Ashley and Alex have a mutual love of Japan and a mutual love of cats. They celebrated both on their wedding day. They got married at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, a traditional Japanese Garden. All their flowers, from the bride’s bouquet to the boutonnieres, were origami prepared by the groom. Their centerpieces were various Pusheen […]

Alex & Ashley’s Japan-themed wedding at Hakone Gardens

Meadow Club Fairfax wedding Caili Chung Photography

Katie and Daniel are just incredible humans. On top of being so talented, intelligent, charismatic, and beautiful, they also threw the most drool-worthy event. Still, throughout their whole wedding day they really went out of their way to be welcoming, giving and sincere. The two really deserve each other. They got married at a Country […]

Katie & Daniel’s Mountain Wedding at Meadow Club

SF Golden Gate Bridge Caili Chung Engagement

Katie is just killing the wedding game. She dove head-first into wedding planning and contacted me the day after her proposal. Through the phone, I could tell that she was just beaming with excitement. Alex was down for anything. During this shoot, he was used as a human playground– carrying Katie in his arms, throwing […]

Alex & Katie’s Engagement Photos at Lovers Lane & Baker Beach

I knew Sam and Sam were absolutely incredible from our very first phone call. We talked for over an hour, and I loved how well they supported and built off of each other. Last weekend, I finally got to party with them at the celebration they had described to me months ago. It was even […]

Sam and Sam’s pink and sparkly wedding at Garden Valley Ranch

I highly recommend buying your gear secondhand. It gets the job done and is a lot more affordable. Facebook Groups for locals selling gear/Facebook marketplace are great places to start. If you can, meet up with the buyer and test out the gear before you hand over your money. But most of my gear is […]

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