Villa Cetinale Elopement: An Elegant Lemon-Themed Destination Elopement in the Heart of Tuscany There is a particular kind of couple that finds their way to Villa Cetinale. They have usually been to Italy before — have walked Siena’s medieval streets, have sat with a glass of Chianti watching the Tuscan hills go golden in the […]

Italian Inspired Wedding Venues in the US: 7 Extraordinary Places to Say “I Do” Without Needing Your Passport Italy does something to people. You stand in a Tuscan vineyard as the afternoon light turns the hills gold, or you sit in a Venetian courtyard listening to water echo off stone, or you walk through a […]

Cielo Farms: A Tuscan-Inspired Wedding Venue Hidden in the Hills of Malibu, California There is a moment on the drive up Mulholland Highway when the landscape shifts in a way that feels abrupt and complete. The coastal highway energy falls away behind you, the road narrows and winds into the Santa Monica Mountains, and the […]

The Colony Estate: A Grand California Mansion Wedding Venue Between Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Malibu There are venues you visit because someone recommended them, and then there are venues you encounter and immediately understand — in your bones, before you have even finished walking the grounds — that this is the kind of place […]

Bodega Los Alamos: One of the Best Wine Country’s Micro Wedding Venue I have been driving through Los Alamos for longer than I can remember — it sits right along the route between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, and for years it was the kind of town you blinked through rather than stopped in. […]

Villa and Vine: The European Courtyard That Makes It One of the Best Micro Wedding Venues in Santa Barbara I was on my way to a venue tour when I first came across Villa and Vine. A colleague had mentioned it in passing as we were discussing the evolution of Santa Barbara’s wedding venue landscape, […]

Santa Barbara Inn: Oceanfront Elegance and One of the Best Micro Wedding Venues in Santa Barbara There is a moment that happens at every wedding I photograph at an oceanfront venue — a particular stillness that descends in the hour before the ceremony, when the Pacific is doing what it does best and the light […]

Santa Barbara Historical Museum: A Historic and Romantic Choice Among the Best Micro Wedding Venues in Santa Barbara There is a particular quality of light that falls through the pergola of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum‘s main courtyard in the late afternoon — warm and slightly diffused, catching the edges of the adobe walls and […]