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“Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.” – Joan Didion Recently, I had the opportunity to capture a magical engagement session in the breathtaking Marin Headlands.  The Headlands is short car ride over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and through a very long tunnel with […]

When Allison and Aaron contacted me about moving their wedding date, I thought it was Covid-related because that was the type of email I was getting back then. In actuality, the change was due to a 5000-miles-away relocation from California to Ireland – to a quaint little town named Cloughjordan, nestled in the countryside.  The Irish […]

They are both graduate students at UC Berkeley studying the archaeology and history of Ancient Greece. A wedding isn’t something they had time to plan for, but with the help of family and friends, this very sweet and romantic DYI backyard wedding was born. These two were so happy celebrating on a family friend’s farm. A perfect […]

When your wedding in Mexico was cancelled due to COVID, these two came up with a Plan B. Like so many others, they had to change their course and do a hometown wedding in San Francisco. But before their wedding day, they wanted to celebrate their engagement with an engagement session. I can’t think of a better reason to finally peel yourself out […]

  Planning a wedding is stressful. Add a global pandemic to the mix, and let’s just say 2020 isn’t what any of us expected.  Usually during this time of the summer, so many couples are getting hitched and I’m neck deep into the wedding season. Instead, here we are – five months into the COVID-19 […]

  With its lush foliage and stunning light, The Presidio is always a favorite location for an engagement session. India & Mitch agreed, so we spent the afternoon hiking the grounds to find the most stunning backdrops for their engagement shoot. India and Mitch come from different states, but met and fell in love here […]

When Amber and Josh told me about their San Francisco City Hall destination wedding, which would include a two-hour trolley tour around San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge, I thought it sounded like a pretty great day! They wanted their wedding to incorporate all their favorite things: architecture, food, and the city where […]

This is the story of Alexa & Paul’s Foggy summer wedding at The Mavericks Event Center in Half Moon Bay. As is typical in the summer on the coast of California, the fog made an appearance on their wedding day. But the cool air was no match for all of the warmth of friends and family […]

These two are getting married in Spain and wanted to represent where they created a life together. So we headed over to beautiful Land’s End for their engagement session. Summer in San Francisco is pretty cold, and Karl the Fog always appears correct when my sessions start – it never fails. So even though this time […]

Looking back on 2018, I feel so honored to have been a part of so many special celebrations. Thank you to all of my clients who trusted me to capture and witness such beautiful moments in their lives. I was able to photograph weddings at some new places and check them off of my bucket […]

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Jennifer Michelson, THE Photographer

Hello! I am Jennifer, and I am the girl behind the camera. I am a San Francisco-based Wedding, SF City Hall, and Family Portrait Photographer with over 15 years of experience capturing over 350 weddings. 

Passionate about - TELLING YOUR STORY.
I believe life is not ordinary or flawless – and there is beauty in that. All of my images are hand-crafted from start to finish, and my heart and soul go into the creation of them.




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