Published in Pride & Groom magazine

The managing editor of Pride & Groom contacted us a few months ago about their “Destination Weddings” issue and their interest in any LGBT couples we may have photographed at San Francisco City Hall.

Considering our last couple blog posts, we figured a third featuring City Hall couldn’t hurt.

We were delighted to offer them (with the consent of our couples) two recent LGBT couples who we had the pleasure of photographing. Both within the past year, Karen & Carrie and Stuart & Neil.

Carrie and Karen are a Bay Area couple and were just picking up their marriage license at the County Clerk’s office at City Hall and asked Mischa to meet them to get some “engagement” photographs while in the gorgeous and historical building. We highly recommend engagement sessions to our couples as it allows for a little practice in front of the lens before their big day and it was worth the drive for Mischa to meet them mid-week for an hour. We’re SO looking forward to their wedding in a few weeks in Carmel!

Here’s a couple of their favorites that didn’t go to print: 

Stuart and Neil are a couple from Scotland whose close friend, vacation buddy, and official witness, Claire, contacted us about a month before their wedding last Fall to arrange their wedding photography as a surprise. We met with them just before their appointment time and spent just under 2 hours with the couple (and Claire) before and after their ceremony to capture the photos.

Here’s some screen shots from the online version of Pride & Groom, we just received our printed copies in the mail and they are 100% glossy goodness. For the full online version, click here.

One of our sillier shots from Stuart and Neil’s wedding showed Claire, threatening to expose what these Scots were wearing under their kilts. It was used as the Table of Contents teaser image below:

Karen & Carrie are featured in the Newly Engaged section on page 6:

Stuart and Neil got a three page spread and write-up:

Text from the magazine reads:

“Stuart and I met in the year 2000 in one of Aberdeen’s few gay venues, The City Bar. He caught my eye as I was playing pool with a friend – he was sitting at a table, browsing through the gay papers while smoking a cigarette. The bar has long since closed, and Stuart’s stopped smoking, but we’re still going strong together. Our relationship has been as fast as a speeding…glacier. It was 14 years before Stuart proposed. If you think that’s bad, we only moved in together three years ago! We were having a meal at one of our favorite Aberdeen restaurants, when he excused himself to go to the bathroom. My cell buzzed shortly afterwards and it was a text from Stuart asking me to marry him. When he returned to the table, I of course said yes.  We’d always wanted to visit San Francisco and initially planned the trip to mark Stuart’s 40th birthday, but after the proposal it quickly became clear it was the ideal opportunity to get hitched, and our friend Claire offered to fly from Scotland to meet us in San Francisco and be our witness for the day. We had great fun having our pictures taken by our photographer, Mischa, even with our heavy wool kilts adding to the heat of the day. A Scot has no bigger pride than wearing his kilt abroad, and we even had strangers asking for photos when we arrived at City Hall. We then hired a stretch limo to take us on a tour of the city, accompanied by a couple of bottles of champagne.  Afterwards, at the restaurant Gary Dankos, diners at the table next to us struck up a conversation, and when we told them our story they raised a toast to us and gave us a round of applause. It was typical of our experience of such a wonderful city – friendly, welcoming people and we can’t wait to return. ”

We are so proud to have our photography featured in this publication’s second issue, and hope to have more LGBT couples discover us and be as excited to submit images and stories to be published in future issues.