Canyon View Dining Hall Wedding – Shanti Duprez Fine Portrait Photography

Wedding Photography at Canyon View Dining Hall, San Ramon, CA / Arturo and Vanessa

Posted on October 9, 2013 | by Shanti

Holy cow, its almost been a year since this blessed day… I am finally catching up on some blogging. Since this day, I have also had the pleasure of capturing their beautiful baby girl too. Such a great couple and now such a great family!

Vanessa and Arturo chose a love bird theme that they integrated into all the details of their wedding day. The venue, Canyon View Dining Hall, is nestled into the hills of San Ramon. Coordinated by Tony White; from invitations, to decorations, to the beautiful flowers by La Martine Florals, it truly was all about these love birds.

I think my favorite part of this wedding was stumbling upon this beautiful golf course that was untouched by golfers during the sunset hour. And what made it even so much more perfect was the site of a bird house nestled into some foliage that made for the perfect backdrop for their amazing shots. Now I mentioned stumbling because this golf course was right below the venue, and seemed relatively easy to get to… unless you were a beautiful bride in a wedding dress and some heals… and this is why I love Vanessa… she simply kicked off her shoes and was ready for the adventure! Thank you Vanessa (and Arturo) for being such an awesome couple to get to know.

Portraits by Shanti DuPrez / Canyon View Dining Hall / Alpine Pastry / La Martine Floral / Filmtwist Productions / Golf Course Bride

Portraits by Shanti DuPrez / Canyon View Dining Hall / Alpine Pastry / La Martine Floral / Filmtwist Productions / Golf Course Bride

San Francisco Bay Area Vendors:

Wedding & Reception Venue: Canyon View Dining Hall, San Ramon

Officiant: Willie Vega from New Hope Church, Concord

Wedding Coordinator: Extreme Elegance Events by Tony White

Wedding Flowers: La Martine Floral Designer

Wedding Cake: Alpine Pastry, Concord

DJ: Hugo Gomez with NorCal D'J's

Wedding Videography: Filmtwist Productions

We had just the best experience with Shanti that we could have hoped for. Shanti’s photos are unbelievably beautiful and well-composed. She had an excellent balance between portraits of us and candid shots of our guests. Throughout the planning process, she was incredibly attentive to our silly questions and very quick to get us our engagement photos and wedding photos. She’s a pleasure to work with. While Shanti’s talents and professionalism are stellar, what really makes her stand out is her amazing personality. She was almost as excited as we were, which made us feel completely at ease when she was on the other side of the lens. We didn’t really think about how much this matters, and I’m glad that we ended up on the right side of surprised! I can’t recommend Shanti’s work enough. We were so pleased to have her as part of our special day.

Matt

I just wanted to thank you and Shannon so very much for making us feel like we had our friends their taking the pictures! You were very patient, especially when you first got there and none of us were ready and I was still sort of stressed from trying to finish the set up across the street! But after getting ready and starting to take pictures everything just fell into place. We had a number of people comment on Wow the photographer was everywhere. And you were.

We, Marty and I had almost as much fun as the kids did! The party/dancing didn’t end till I started blowing candles out at 1:30am!

Thank you very much for being professional and low key at the same time that worked for us perfectly!!

Cindy and Marty

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