Fall Wedding

So…. fun fact. I’m really really terrible at blogging. This wedding is long overdue to be posted. When I photographed it I was pregnant. A weird condition of this particular pregnancy was that even looking at the computer made me nauseous. Then 2 years have flown by so quickly that now the little stinker is 2. Yeah 2. So that brings us to the present.

Times have been a little weird ( or a lot) and now Im feeling nostalgic for a time where we had less to worry about and could pack as many people in to a wedding that we want. Also, Sacramento is in full blown 100 degree weather that is typical for this time of year and I’m longing for the cool mornings and cool evenings of a California Fall. Which brings us back to this wedding, that was in the fall in L.A at The York Manner https://www.theyorkmanor.com/. It was a beautiful affair. Full of emotion, love and laughter. It also had some of the most well thought out details to any wedding that I’ve ever attended. As a side note, I grew up with Josh and I love him and his family dearly. Josh and Ryan gave me the opportunity to photograph these moments in their life and also hired a second photographer for the party half of the evening so I could sit back and enjoy a little time on their day with my own family who came with me. It was an honor and a privilege.

Josh’s kids. Ryan got them both meaning gifts and surprised them while getting ready.

Ryans wedding part is both beautiful and fun!

There were so many details in this wedding. You are about to suffer from photo overload. Ryan was a Flight Attendant so they had this amazing travel theme throughout the wedding.

The Ceremony

Ryan made vows to Josh’s children as well. It was an emotional moment

They planted a tree together to symbolize their new family.

Look at this gorgeous venue! This property, (the grooms parents)almost burnt down in a wildfire 6 weeks before the wedding! A private vineyard, breathtaking views, nestled between hills in the Wenatchee, Washington. The grooms parents spent a very intense few weeks re-landscaping the property before the wedding.

This wedding took place over labor day weekend last year. It started with an amazing rehearsal dinner coordinated and styled by the merry makers at Merriment Party Goods. The dinner was supposed to take place outside, on the beautiful grounds surrounding the home. The weather had other plans for us. The wind decided to pick up and blow soot from the burned hillside everywhere! Luckily, Brianne the chief merrymaker, had a plan b…and c. So we ended up moving the whole party inside.As you can see, it urned out amazing.

There were so many handmade details from this wedding, the wooden bowl in the photo below was just one of many that were handcrafted, by the grooms father, as wedding favors for the out of town guests.

So we hoped that by morning the wind would be gone, and we would be able to hold the ceremony as planned over looking the vineyard and the valley floor below. However, we woke up to rain. So, once again on to Plan B. The ceremony moved to the indoors. We moved furniture and rugs, dried off the chairs, created an aisle and a new Huppah from scratch.

The ceremony, was beautiful and full of meaning and steeped in culture and tradition. Dina and Mike chose to have both a celtic hand fasting ritual and tradtional Jewish wedding ceremony. It was simply one of the best weddings I have ever had the privilege to attend.

The reception was held at Mountain Spring Lodge immediately after the ceremony.It was joyful and emotional evening. There was singing, laughing, tears and fun. Mike and Dina, now share the same wedding anniversary as his paternal grandparents. They shared their reception with them