This was our last wedding before everything got shut down in 2020. The first weekend of March, when we were still cautious yet did not know how serious this COVID-19 virus was. Kelly, Stuart and all of us are very happy that it happened before things turned upside down.
In fact, they were already married. They didn’t want anything fancy and their wedding ceremony happened somewhat spontaneously at LAX courthouse and got some awesome Vietnamese food to celebrate afterwards, they said. Then Stuart contacted me and said, “we're not huge wedding photo fans, most of them just are too self-serious or cheesy of the couple and the photographer fails to capture beautiful, well-shot images of the friends, family, guests attending the celebration - the 'reception' is often an afterthought, with all the candids being of peoples backs, blurred dancing shots, etc - we're very aware that the 'reception' is basically our whole party!”
I was so happy that we were on the same page about capturing moments in life and that’s actually what matters the most! Woohoo! #jackpot
Since we didn’t have any ceremony, we thought, WHY NOT having some portraits of Kelly and Stuart - who are the kindest, nicest, smartest people I’ve ever met - on the streets of downtown Los Angeles before the “reception” at Valentine DTLA?
YESSSS!
