Thanks for Melissa and Sharon bringing us to the family party to celebrate Melissa’s graduation. It’s such a special experience for us. Our first meeting with Melissa and Sharon was at Santana Row, where they told us their plan to have a portrait session for Melissa, a family group photo session and dinner afterward. We were very excited about this special project. For us, it’s a completely different experience from wedding coverage.
One week before the party, we visited Forbes Mill, the restaurant for their dinner party in downtown Los Gatos and explored some photo spots there, just as we did for wedding rehearsal.
The photo session started from 2PM at Melissa’s beautiful house, we really like the backyard with lots of green trees:
The Mom and Daughter are just like 2 sisters, both of them like smiles a lots:
Then we went to downtown Saratoga for a portrait session for Melissa. This is my first time doing senior portrait. Thanks to Melissa being so easy to work with and so natural in front of the camera. We really love these portraits:
We were able to get to Memorial Park on time. And when we got there, most of family members are already there. It’s a great group photo session and thanks to the perfect weather. The whole background is so beautiful that it does’t look like a real park.
Melissa and her lovely twin cousins from Ohio. Melissa’s uncle brought the whole family from Ohio to Bay area to attend Melissa’s graduation family, that’s so sweet.
The dinner recption started from 6:30pm, so during the cocktail time, we did a few portraits in downtown Los Gatos:
The dinner was at Forbes Mill Steakhouse, Melissa’s favorite restaurant. Their Pear Googonzola salad and filet mignon are gorgeous, and we will come back again for sure.
After the dinner, we had a few evening portrait shots in downtown Los Gatos:
Thanks Melissa for giving us such a special experience and wonderful day. We had a lot of fun and all your family members are so nice. We really enjoyed being with them. We end up more than 1000 photos for the day and hopefully the 2 DVDs of all the images will reach you by Wednesday. You may have a hard time picking your favorite photos. We will meet you up again after your tirp to florida disneyland. Have fun there. And I will update this blog post after editing more photos.
