Pakistani Wedding in San Jose

This Pakistani wedding in San Jose was pure magic and probably one of my all time favorite ceremonies ever. I love planned ceremonies and officiants can do a great job, don’t get me wrong, but one of the magical things about having a priest (of any religion) officiate your wedding is that he or she is used to giving weekly sermons or lessons or thoughts to an audiences and so I often find them intimate and touching and personal in a way that an officiant is not. The imam that led Priya and Dave’s ceremony spoke about love in such a touching and memorable way, and marriage even more so. I couldn’t hope to repeat his words with any semblance of accuracy and so I won’t, but when you get to the images of their ceremony, I hope you imagine all of the love and power of their families and each other and all good things in the world coming together to bless them. It was there.

Throw in Priya’s amazing dress/outfit and their cutest first dance on the lawn AND the fact that it was a lunar eclipse and we could see it during the toasts after the ceremony AND their epic dance party and I will totally consider this one a win. An auspicious wedding day for sure, and so much beauty for a photographer. Enjoy!