it all happened so fast, but what i do remember is our long limo ride to yankee stadium after the wedding and just enjoying the car ride with them.

without further ado, the highlights from their wedding.

Dress by: Jenny Lee (http://www.jennyleebridal.com)
Shoes: Jimmy Choo (http://www.jimmychoo.com)
Venue: The New York Botanical Garden (http://www.nybg.org)
Catering: Abigail Kirsch (http://www.abigailkirsch.com)
Band: Cafe Wha? Band (http://www.cafewha.com)
Flowers: Diana Gould Ltd. - Robert Peczka (http://www.dianagouldltd.com)
Hair & Makeup: Kim Sun Young (http://www.kimsunyoungny.com)
Calligraphy on the place cards: Tracy Joe (http://www.tracyjoe.com)
Engagement Ring: Harry Winston
Wedding Bands: Martin Katz

for their party favors, deborah made about a hundred miniature shoes, all different types and colors.  these were all handmade and i can testify to watching her sit there for hours on end hand making each one by herself.  she's a trooper!  

here's a few highlights from her sweet wedding at the piedmont community hall in oakland.  

dress: David's Bridal
shoes: Style & Co.
venue: Piedmont Community Hall 510-420-3081 
Supply Rental: C&M "Party Props" 925-934-3181   and Alameda Rental 510-522-2110
hair salon: Absolutely Fabulous Hair 510-658-4247
florist: Ruby's Garden (510) 595-5325
caterer: MJ by Design 510-969-4219
Cake: Nathan Cooper 510-847-3047
DJ: Richard Gascon
Video: Infinity Productions 408-720-0281

so the first half of the night was beautiful, elegant, touching, and very personal.  what you may not have known is that meg and rahul planned a costumed karaoke reception for their guests.  and not just any normal karaoke event, but one led by the most awesome karaoke dj in the world, DJ PURPLE.  major props to him for having every english song on hand, but also foreign hits that were in their native language!  yeah, we heard german punk/pop for the first time and some familiar indian hits.  it was as if all of their friends had been waiting for ages to have a proper stage to show off their guns and roses chops.  

meg and rahul had been telling their friends to bring a costume and their a-game.  the madness was brought and the rest is now history.  

meghul, you guys ROCK HARD.  

Dress--Amy Kuschel Bridal
Shoes--Franco Sarto
Green Florist--Emily Dreblow at SoulFlower
Green Caterer--Eric Fenster at Back to Earth
Karaoke DJ--DJ Purple 
Biodiesel Buses--Bauer's Transportation
Organic Wine--Organic Vintners
Hairdresser--Carla at HairPlay in Noe Valley

ingrid snuck off with the rings and came up with this cool shot

yup, that is meg's father in a tutu.  i heart him.

it was very hot and heavy at times

love this shot of her feet!  

you gotta love family

meg's mom bringing down the hammer!

this is why we've stayed away from nikon.  it does things to your brain.

anybody that wears red hot vinyl pants on their wedding day is my friend for life

DJ purple was the man.  he would rip on the sax when people were struggling with lyrics and bring up the energy levels

it was so good that we had to split the post into two sections, less ye be blinded by the glory of their wedding.  part two will include the reception alone.  here is their sneak peak pictures of what is to come of their reception post.  their ceremony was so genuine, hilariously informative, and very exciting to watch.  friends came up and made poems for them with costume changes.  another group changed the lyrics of a song to fit them and brandished a hundred cards with pictures and quotes on them.  rahul's father officiated for them in such a sweet and personal manner.  

not only that, but the whole wedding was GREEN!  we haven't written much about our love for greening weddings on our blog yet, but we're proponents of getting weddings as green as possible.  they bussed people in from san francisco on biodiesel buses!  which tackles one of the biggest problems with weddings not being green - the huge amount of traffic generated from traveling guests.  eric fenster from back to earth catered the shindig with some really delicious vegetarian cookin'.  say what?  a vegetarian meal for a wedding?!  we were so thankful the whole night, cuz meat make photographers all gassy and sluggish during the reception.  the list of green awesomeness goes on and on that i could just cry.  the vendor list will be forthcoming in the second post, i promise.  

this first post is the calm before the storm.  now we leave you to it.  

we never post formals, unless your formals look like this!  i hunger for fun formals.

wishing you guys all the best!

ten points to the person who figures out how i got her hair to do magic tricks!

love this series.

we're shooting luchen and andrew's wedding this coming saturday, so i thought i'd share some photos of their civil ceremony at the san francisco civic center.  their parents wanted them to get married on september 15th because it was a lucky day.  unfortunately, the day fell on a monday so they did a separate civil ceremony.  fortunately, that means double the party! 

waiting...

i love the look on both luchen and the baby's face.  

this will be our last post before we officially start our vacation today after the shoot.  so bye!

we are really excited about posting meg and rahul's wedding.  we think your eyeballs might explode from excitement.  in fact, we couldn't wait so here are a few sneak peaks!  

their wedding had a karaoke costume party reception.  jerry and i take up the mantle to spread costume party karaoke to the whole world.  here, pictured, is adam (the first one) or tarzan playing air guitar with a boa constrictor.  freakin' awesome can't even describe his performance.

this is the bride crowd surfing.  

Giovanna and Ray had all the elements that make a great wedding: a radiant bride, tons of helpful friends, hyper little kids, and dinosaurs!  i really really love dinosaurs so forgive me if there are lots of these crazy little guys in the following pictures. 

Giovanna trying to hold back the tears.  

Ray's father was showing them the lost art of tying a tie. 

the flower girl and her little friends.

kids were being sporadically thrown in the air the whole day.

the little boys stole the microphone away during the speeches to apologize for not doing their wedding duties

there were LOTS of little kids.  i thought this picture of a doll sitting next to champagne glasses was fitting... and strange.

some sweet captures by michael. 

shirley looks HOT.

if you show us your best moves, we'll put you on the blog.