Okay, where to even begin with Angeline and Rohun.
I guess at the beginning… We met up for brunch at Coupa Cafe in downtown Palo Alto. I got French Toast, Brad got… okay, you don’t actually care what we ate (and I don’t remember). Well we had a great chat, and I remember immediately thinking, “damn, these people are awesome.” When they emailed to officially book us, I’m pretty sure I jumped out of my chair. So stoked for their elaborate bay area Indian wedding complete with a western ceremony. Of course we were nervous. It was the biggest wedding we had shot!
However, a few months after their engagement session, I found out I was pregnant. And my due date was EXACTLY on their wedding date. Cool, cool, cool. No big deal. Brad would shoot the wedding with a second photographer, and we would pray that I didn’t go into labor on my actual due date. But we had backups upon backups.
As it turned out, that didn’t really matter anyways. Covid, heard of it? Angeline and Rohun were absolute champions with the alterations to their wedding day. June 6, 2020, they got married in their backyard with about 1% of their actual guest count. Brad photographed while I cuddled our three-week-old Emily in their garden.
And then exactly a year later, we finally got to celebrate the way that Angeline and Rohun deserved to be celebrated at our favorite bay area venue, Ardenwood Farms.
Here’s a little background
“She is from Wisconsin, he is from California, they met and fell in love in Ohio. We met in 2015 while we were both at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, we both also worked for the University’s Department of Residence Life as graduate staff members. Normally dating your co-worker is not a good idea, but in our case it was the best idea!
“In 2016 after dating for about 9 months he moved back to the Bay area to start medical school, while she stayed in Cleveland to finish her PhD. In March of 2018 he visited over his spring break to help support her before in the week before she defended her dissertation (it is hard to function during that time, let alone plan meals and run errands!). They took a break and went to a favorite place of theirs, The Farm, a large plot of land owned by the University that has trails, ponds and forests. While walking through the snowy paths the stopped at a dock on a pond and he got down on a knee and proposed. She cannot remember what he said, but she does remember saying yes!
“In May of 2018 she moved to the Bay area to start a job as a geology professor. A week later he moved to Southern California for his med school rotations. In early 2020 he moved back to the Bay and they got to be in same place! Right after the wedding they both moved to St. Louis and are happy to still be together in the same place.”
They definitely thought their engagement session was a necessary part of their wedding story. “It really helped us loosen up and learn how to take non mom-with-camera-phone-insisting-on-taking-too-many-pictures pictures together. We got a good idea of how pose and let our love show through in images.”
And a little advice for couples planning their weddings: “Roll with it. Your wedding will be beautiful regardless of the bumps in the roads and changes you have to make. At the end of the day the details are not what is important, the people who are there to share your joy are.”
And now for the photos
Some personal touches were included in this wedding. “The memorial table was for our deceased family members to be “present” and remembered. The flowers around the fountain were different bouquets all given to us by family friends. The chairs we sat on and the cloth Angeline walked under were the ones Rohun’s parents used in their wedding. The ring on Angeline’s right hand belonged to her great aunt, the earrings were Rohun’s grandmother’s and the tikka (forehead pendant) was Rohun’s mom’s that was worn on her wedding day.”
LUNCH BREAK 
Great pictures ! ❤️❤️