We are Helena and Laurent, a couple of award-winning San Francisco Bay Area Wedding Photographers. We shoot documentary style photography and specialize in telling love stories, capturing authentic candid moments, and taking beautiful unposed portraits. Get in touch if you're looking for a San Francisco wedding photographer for your engagement photos, elopement, minimony, micro-wedding, or raucous wedding party.
We love working locally but we travel throughout California, the United States, and destinations worldwide in order to take awesome photos for rad couples.
We love working locally but we travel throughout California, the United States, and destinations worldwide in order to take awesome photos for rad couples.
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We are Helena and Laurent, a documentary wedding photography team out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
Really though, we're just two crazy kids in love, with a passion for telling stories and playing with our cameras.
Laurent is funny and talkative, loves his motorcycle, and he's a magician with computers - so he handles all the emails and works with all our couples.
Helena is thoughtful, patient, passionate about plants, and British gardening shows.
She is a perfectionist to a fault, so she builds our H&L presets and edits all the photos.
Really though, we're just two crazy kids in love, with a passion for telling stories and playing with our cameras.
Laurent is funny and talkative, loves his motorcycle, and he's a magician with computers - so he handles all the emails and works with all our couples.
Helena is thoughtful, patient, passionate about plants, and British gardening shows.
She is a perfectionist to a fault, so she builds our H&L presets and edits all the photos.
Put simply, we love love!
As San Francisco Wedding Photographers we're very proud of our diverse city.
We feel incredibly honored we get to share in the love of so many amazing couples and we are 100% committed to supporting love in all its forms.
Enjoy these amazing love stories below, all of them real weddings, elopements, and engagements.
The Best Reason to Elope During a Global Pandemic - Not only is getting married during a global pandemic still an option, we think it's a great idea.
Why not elope now and then just figure out the rest later.
As San Francisco Wedding Photographers we're very proud of our diverse city.
We feel incredibly honored we get to share in the love of so many amazing couples and we are 100% committed to supporting love in all its forms.
Enjoy these amazing love stories below, all of them real weddings, elopements, and engagements.
The Best Reason to Elope During a Global Pandemic - Not only is getting married during a global pandemic still an option, we think it's a great idea.
Why not elope now and then just figure out the rest later.
As documentary wedding photographers in the San Francisco Bay area, we get the pleasure of working with couples from a diverse group of backgrounds and cultures.
Each couple goes through the process of planning their wedding in their own way and the resulting event is always one of a kind - as unique as the couple.
After ~250 weddings we still find ourselves crying and laughing throughout the day because witnessing two people pledge their lives to each other is so moving.
And we get a lot of joy in documenting the many beautiful unique ways two people's lives and families merge into one.
Each couple goes through the process of planning their wedding in their own way and the resulting event is always one of a kind - as unique as the couple.
After ~250 weddings we still find ourselves crying and laughing throughout the day because witnessing two people pledge their lives to each other is so moving.
And we get a lot of joy in documenting the many beautiful unique ways two people's lives and families merge into one.
Big weddings aren't for everyone.
For many, a wedding is all about having tacos with friends in your backyard, or walking out to the ocean with your immediate family, or just on the cliffs saying your vows alone.
Whatever a wedding means to you, we love shooting elopements and smaller intimate weddings.
Whether you're getting married at San Francisco City Hall or a beautiful location of your choosing, we can capture your event with lots of gorgeous wedding photos.
The Best Reason to Elope During a Global Pandemic - Not only is getting married during a global pandemic still an option, we think it's a great idea.
For many, a wedding is all about having tacos with friends in your backyard, or walking out to the ocean with your immediate family, or just on the cliffs saying your vows alone.
Whatever a wedding means to you, we love shooting elopements and smaller intimate weddings.
Whether you're getting married at San Francisco City Hall or a beautiful location of your choosing, we can capture your event with lots of gorgeous wedding photos.
The Best Reason to Elope During a Global Pandemic - Not only is getting married during a global pandemic still an option, we think it's a great idea.
On the Coney Island boardwalk, against the Atlantic Ocean, Helena bought a chili mango and offered Laurent a bite.
Exactly one year later, against the Pacific Ocean, Laurent leaned into her as they sat on the beach watching the waves.
He asked her to stand up and she said "no way, what are you up to?"
He got on his knees anyway and pulled out a ring that had been in his family for over 100 years.
No sooner did he say "Will you." did she yell out the word "Yes!"
And just like that, with two questions against two different oceans and we were engaged to be married.
Exactly one year later, against the Pacific Ocean, Laurent leaned into her as they sat on the beach watching the waves.
He asked her to stand up and she said "no way, what are you up to?"
He got on his knees anyway and pulled out a ring that had been in his family for over 100 years.
No sooner did he say "Will you." did she yell out the word "Yes!"
And just like that, with two questions against two different oceans and we were engaged to be married.
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