We were given a great opportunity today. A month or so ago I entered the two of us in a wedding shoot. Jay and I both thought it would be fun and a reward since we didn't have professional photos done for our wedding. My cousin knows the lady who has the photography studio. The lady was looking for a few couples to photograph to use for her portfolio. Luckily enough we were one of those couples. A few requirements were that you were responsible for your attire (dress, shoes, hair, makeup, nails, tux, etc). In return you are given the chance to be a part of the experience at the destination location and the edited photos. Sign us up! You can't beat that.
Today was the DAY!!!! Our location she selected was at the Palace of Fine Arts. A beautiful place. The water pond and backdrop of the dome was gorgeous. As it turns out, today was a really good weather day too. Our photographer was so awesome. Sharon had a good personality and you could tell she knew what she was doing. To top it off she had good humor which is always important especially since Jay like to kid around a lot. I think we meshed well with her. She had tons of ideas. Posing us here, taking pics from there. It was so cool. A little bit into the shoot a lot of tourists came "Asian tourists" at that. At first one of them came over and started taking pictures. I didn't really know what to think. He didn't ask or anything, but lone and behold we let him take a few snapshots and be on his way. After that some more started taking pictures. I'm a really photogenic person and I love the camera but this kind of make me uncomfortable. Here we are posing for our photographer having a good 'ol time and then snap..snap..snap. They even tried to be sneaking and put there cameras down by there waist and take a few as we were walking to a different area. I felt kind of bad for Sharon also. She put all her time and effort into setting this up and then you have these people who think they can rain on her parade and steal some shots. There should have totally been some photography police there to fine them. At one point Sharon asked one of the men who were snapping some photos if they had asked us for permission to take the pictures. The guy hurried himself along mumbling something. I don't think he spoke English. After that we weren't bothered again.
The photo shoot was amazing. I'm so glad we got this chance again. It was like our wedding day minus the stress. And it was just US. To top off our afternoon, we left the photo shoot and decided to go to dinner. Yes, we were still in our photo shoot attire! As we drove through Larkspur we couldn't help ourselves and had to stop at our fave restaurant The Melting Pot. We got there literally as they opened the doors. The hostess immediately asked if we had just got married. Oh how we couldn't help it but say YES. She told us to pick any table in the restaurant. Of course we chose Lovers Lane. Once we were seated we were greeted by the manager with complimentary champagne. The hostess took our picture with the champagne, printed it, and gave us the picture in a melting pot frame. It was so nice to get special treatment. Next were our drinks. The manager brought us a citrus cooler (Jay's choice) and creme brulee martini (my choice). We ordered the Big Night Out in France (right now for the menu selection is French inspired). Everything was delicious as usual. For dessert we were giving a platter written in chocolate "Congrats on your special day" with a lot of hearts and strawberry decoration. This concluded our day of wedding festivities. An amazing experience! <3
With Love,
Mrsbefons
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