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  • Engaged couple kissing on the rocks at Rodeo Beach at sunset
    Love Stories

    Dreamy Palace of Fine Arts and Rodeo Beach Engagement

  • Aerial image of an elopement couple lying down on the rugged rocks of the California coast
    Love Stories

    Intimate Garrapata State Park Elopement

  • Intimate couple standing forehead to forehead among cherry trees
    Love Stories

    Engagement at Los Angeles Arboretum

  • intimate lgbtq couple posing at conservatory of flowers
    Love Stories

    LGBTQ Couple Session in Golden Gate Park San Francisco

  • maternity session. intimate couple kissing while kneeling on the beach as a wave crahses into them.
    Love Stories | Maternity

    Sunset Maternity Session Baker Beach

  • just married couple kissing in the desert
    Elopement | Love Stories | Weddings

    Western Elopement in Joshua Tree

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  • On here to share the sweetest proposal! These high school sweethearts have been together for 10 years and are finally tying the knot! 🤍💍 Their friends and family came out early to help set up (and clean up!) their proposal site. Her sister blind folded her in the car until she arrived to a sweet surprise. Most memorably, search and rescue was conducting a training but gave us the okay to set up, and they actually finished in time to witness the big YES themselves 👏 👏 Congratulations Azariah and Bayron!! Love this engaged era for you 🥂 Cheers and happy dances 🤍 Floral Set Up • @bloomsby_diana
  • Don’t know where to start with your elopement planning? 🤔 Pick an emoji and follow the line to four different elopement timelines to get you started 🥰 Your elopement day can be simple and lowkey, or totally adventurous. It can be a short 5-minute affair, or a multi-day excursion! The beauty of elopements is that the focus is on you and your partner, and so your timeline will be built around how you want to spend your day. You can do what you want, eat what you want, and keep it private just between you two if you want 🎉 While these are jumping off points, I’m here to help you customize your timeline to your specific locations and activities so that your day feels completely authentic to you both 🤌🏽🤌🏽 Inquire through the link in my bio and let’s get started 💛 #sanfranciscoelopementphotographer #bayareaelopementphotographer #elopementtips #weddingtimeline
  • A small wedding that’s large enough to hold all of your people 💛 A small wedding in the big city you fell in love 🏙️ A small wedding that celebrates a grand moment in your lives 💍 Intimate weddings don’t minimize what your wedding day can be, they enhance the emotional experience of getting to be present with every single person you chose to be there. A ring-warming during ceremony passed to all the guests. Tying the knot (literally) with fabric representing your combined family heritage. A reception with only seats, no charts. Gretel and Wilson held a celebration that truly embodies what it means to include the community that guided them to this place in life. • • • The Dream Team: Photography • @marjorietherese.photography Coordination • @dreamsonadimeeventsandweddings Reception • @plantconnectionsf Dress • @blueskybridal PS - Peep the last photo because these are our friends too 💛
  • Will you edit my photos? Yes! 🥰 But... Here’s a question you’re probably not asking: How and when do you use AI in your business? 🤔 Artificial Intelligence has been around for decades, under names like Machine Learning or Speech Recognition. I don’t claim to be an expert because I’m a photographer, not a software engineer 😅 But when I refer to being “anti-AI,” I mean Generative AI. You know... the models that create those slop flyers, deepfakes, and even entire Internet personas? It’s important to know how your photographer uses AI and decide if that aligns with your values. Here is a short list of how AI is never used in my practice: ✍🏽 All the words on my website and social media are written by me. If I sound like AI, you can thank my college writing programs. 👀 I actually read your emails, and reply with my own hands. I don’t use AI summarizations, suggestions, or voice-to-text. 📸 Visuals on my website and social media are photos taken by me, or are visuals designed by another human. ⛅ Timeline planning is rooted in experience, not ChatGPT. However, I recognize that AI can be an assistive tool. Here’s a very honest admission of how I use AI in two cases. ✂️ AI culling can be helpful to sort images and assess the best, in-focus, eyes-open frame. However, I never trust it blindly and will still quickly put my eyeballs on each RAW just to make sure. 💻 A complicated distraction removal, but only after I’ve exhausted other tools. I might use techniques like combining images, clone stamp distractions, or even do a face swap. I won’t ever default to the generative AI removal tool if I can do it by another method. So when choosing your photographer, keep in mind that you are selecting human expertise to do the hard work of planning your session and guiding you through your experience. The time you waited for your gallery reflects the time it took your photographer to select the best images and make them look amazing 🫶🏽 I hope this post was helpful in understanding how I navigate my photography business in an actively evolving technological hellscape. I mean landscape ✌🏽
  • Hi everyone!!! 😊 It’s been a hot minute since I last posted something to the feed! I feel like over the last 1.5 years, life was definitely happening for me which made it more difficult to consistently show up on the feed. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t busy with photography! Here’s just a handful of moments that I absolutely loved. Engagements, elopements, proposals, and other celebrations. Life, lived. If you found me during this more quiet time on social media, I appreciate you so much!! Thank you for making magic with me. And shout out to the photographer friends who encourage and inspired me to keep making art even when I was mostly “offline” ✨ I’m happy to announce I am booking 2026 and 2027 engagements, elopements, and intimate weddings 🥂❤️ Reach out soon if you’d like to work together!
  • You got a fast car, I got a plan to get us outta here 💨 • • • • • 🏷️ tags + keywords #elopementphotography #arizonaelopement #adventureelopementphotographer #wildyinlove #unscripted #californiaelopementphotographer #southwestwedding #antibride #desertelopementphotographer adventure elopement, arizona elopement photographer, desert elopement

MARJORIE THERESE

Marjorie Therese is an elopement photographer based in California, dreaming up incredible elopement experiences preserved through emotive imagery. All love stories are welcomed and celebrated.

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