Karen and Mark live in LA but they chose to have their wedding in San Francisco, so they really embraced the whole city theme and stayed at the historic Westin St. Francis and held their wedding at the iconic Cliff House. Karen and Mark are two of the most positive, intelligent (Karen is a Harvard educated and Mark is an educator) and kind people you could ever hope to meet and they definitely brought the sunshine to the city on that fog-filled day. They had an emotional first look at the hotel and then we walked with the family down to the cable cars and stopped at Crissy Field before heading to the Cliff House. Their vows had me in tears, and I love that Karen added a story about a day she spent with Mark when he helped her fix up her backyard. At the end of the day, after Mark had left, she realized that the garden was a metaphor for what Mark had done to her life, he had come in and made it more beautiful. Right after the ceremony we headed down to the beach and then everyone came out onto the balcony and watched the fog miraculously lift right before the sun dipped into the Pacific. That pretty much sums up the whole day; two positive people manifesting a bright and beautiful future together surrounded by their favorite people…and that is everything a wedding should be.