Getting to know Camille and Patrick was fun and easy.

To start, they were instantly adorable and unerringly charming but still claimed that they would be a little “strange” for camera. From our first greeting at the start of our shoot, we got the sense that this wasn’t going to be true. We were right.

Outside of Camille’s amazing gown, there were plenty of signs that we were going to have a great time with them. We were struck by how much they enjoyed the transaction of affection with each other, and how they quietly reveled in the simultaneous give and take that necessitates. It was a subtle dance of hand placements and movements, small shifts of weight into and away from each other, and a gaze that slitted between flirtatious, nakedly passionate, and everything in between.

We traced this grace in front of the camera to their deep acceptance for one another. Camille told us of of a time she picked up Wrestlemania tickets for Patrick, and knowing nothing of wrestling prior, attended it with him and found the fun in the Undertaker doing a Tombstone Piledriver in a sea of 76,000 other wrestling fans. That’s love.

For our shoot, we made our way around The Embarcadero near the Ferry Building, and ended the evening at Pier 7 in San Francisco. There was a good bit of walking involved, but we were glad to do it. While we criss-crossed the area, the walk gave us time to learn about our shared affinities for early Bad Boy Records jams (Cupid by 112 on cassette single, anyone?), the joy of knowing that Boyz II Men are still touring, that Maui > Oahu, and that long pants have no place in any sort of island vacationing.

Camille and Patrick are what we love about this work: getting the chance to meet wonderful people with whom we might never cross paths otherwise. Many thanks to Camille+Patrick, we can’t wait for your wedding day!