Lan and Joe

When Lan and Joe's wedding day came around it was a wonderful blend of cultures.
The day began with a traditional and colorful Vietnamese tea ceremony, celebrating and honoring the joining of their two families.
Later the ceremony was at one of my favorite locations....the San Gabriel Mission. I love the Spanish heritage of California and this beautiful mission is perfect as a photographic background. With it's old, crumbling stonework, rustic wooden doors
and sculptural wrought ironwork it really lends itself to classical and evocative imagery.
As a photographer, inspiration doesn't simply come from what you see. The intense heat from the afternoon sun and the sound of a train whistling on nearby tracks added to the feeling of being in an old frontier town in a different time.
Hopefully Lan and Joe will feel as though their wedding photographs are "timeless"!