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Cinnabar Hills Wedding Rainy San Jose

Ask Guests to Keep Phones & Cameras Down If you don’t ask guests to put their phones away for the ceremony, I guarantee that when you come down the aisle you’re going to see iPhones instead faces. Guarantee it. Also, The WORST thing is when your photographer is ready to catch an important moment and […]

What Brides Should Know About… the Ceremony

You shouldn’t have to know what to do If you hire a great, seasoned photographer – taking photos will be just as fun as the other parts of your wedding day instead of something you need to get through. A great photographer will guide you through the process and be able to generate genuine smiles […]

What Brides Should Know About… Couple Portraits

Palm Event Caenter Winter Wedding Caili Chung Photography

For those that don’t know, a first look is when you privately see your groom for the first time before the ceremony. Here are both sides of the first look debate. Pros of a First Look: 1. If you do do a first look before the ceremony, we can do all/the bulk of couple portraits […]

What Brides Should Know About… First Looks

Muir Beach Wedding Photography Caili Chung

Recommended Allocated Time: 45 minutes Getting ready photos are usually taken at the hotel/home/AirBNB where people stay the night before. It’s a more-chill time before the action of the day really kicks off. Usually the bride and groom are in separate rooms during this time – bridesmaids are with the bride and groomsmen are with […]

What Brides Should Know About… Getting Ready

Mill Valley Wedding Caili Chung Photography

“What we have in mind for our wedding is something small and intimate but full of love!” That’s how Ingrid pictured her wedding when we first started talking. And that’s exactly how I would describe her wedding now that it’s finally happened. Ingrid and Marcos are an incredible couple and even better people. They’re that […]

Ingrid & Marcos’s Wedding at Piazza D’Angelo, Mill Valley

Palm Event Center Winter Wedding Caili Chung Photography

Recommended Time: 30 minutes Details are usually the first thing I photograph on a wedding day. For the rest of the day, my priority will be on capturing the wonderful people present. But during detail photos time, I get to do justice to all the work you’ve put into making your wedding unique. I love […]

What Brides Should Know About… Detail Photos

It’s been 1 year since I shot my first wedding. I was 18 years old and had just graduated high school. I had photographed my high school friends, but I had never photographed a couple and I had never photographed a wedding. I wanted to change that, so I posted to Craigslist saying I was […]

One Year Since My First Wedding

London Fashion Photoshoot Caili Chung Phototgraphy

Did you even go to London if you didn’t take photos here? The red phone booths, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace… Iconic But when you travel with Caili and her camera, you’re going to get a little more than most tourists. This day was as grey as I’d hoped London would be. We crossed a bridge […]

Jessica’s London Lookbook

Treasure Island SF Engagement Session Caili Chung Photography

This engagement shoot reminds me of the 20th Century. Just everything is so classy and timeless. From Ingrid’s pumps and curly hair to Marcos’s car— just EVERYTHING. And Ingrid and Marcos are absolutely wonderful. They make each other laugh so much. You get the best view of the San Francisco skyline from Treasure island, but […]

Ingrid & Marcos Engagement Session at Treasure Island

Facebook Bay Area Engagement Caili Chung Photography

“If we already seem like a married couple, it’s because we’ve been together for 11 years” -Brady ELEVEN YEARS!!!! Sarah and Brady are high school sweethearts, so they evidently must like each other a lot to have stayed together for all that time. They’ve been together through long-distance, through college, and through a move from […]

Brady & Sarah’s Engagement Session at Coyote Peak & Facebook