Stolpman Wedding

I just arrived in Vegas for a little break between California wedding weekends.

This past weekend was Peter and Jessica's Wedding on the Stolpman Vineyard up near Santa Barbara.

It was, of course, amazing.

You may or may not recall my last visit up here in the fall when we did Peter and Jess's engagement photos...well, since then, the villa has been completed.

And let me just say, if you happen to be engaged to be married. And you happen to own a vineyard. And you have the option of building a massive villa-mansion to host your epic wedding. DO THAT.

It was a beautiful and awesome wedding party. I dragged everyone up a hill on the vineyard to get this picture. The girls were NOT HAPPY to be walking up a dirt hill in their spike heels, but it was worth it.

The boys were wayyyyy too comfortable busting out feminine poses.

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Funboys 2.0!

At the start of the ceremony, Peter walked down the aisle with his best friend, Baron.

The ceremony was in the backyard overlooking the vineyard. Stunning.

There was a super cute moment where Pete could not get Jessica's ring on.

These two are just adorable.

Since they both work in the wine business, and this wedding was all about wine. They ended the ceremony by drinking glasses of some super special $1500 bottle of wine after which they tossed the glasses out into the vineyard. It was so cute.

Congratulations guys!!!!

Crazy to think that this new villa is just the start of the rest of their lives. The future is SO bright.

Katie and Semmesey were present, of course. Love working a wedding when my besties are present!

The bridesmaids were a joy as well.

As the sun set, I noticed an incredible opportunity, so I ran and got the bride and groom. Dragged them out of the party and across the property under this tree on this barrel and staged this shot which I'm pretty proud of.

We LOVE sunset on a vineyard!

Oh...you want to see pictures of Funboys doing ladyposes?

OK.

Melanie & Willis's Wedding

In the great bridal spectrum, most brides fall into the average to below average category...they're the best they've ever looked...but it's still...meh......they're a pigeon disguised as a seagull.

The average DK bride is generally above average or top 10%. These brides radiate beauty, elegance, and general splendor on a daily basis. They are the flawless doves of brideland.

And then there's Melanie. The great white swan bride.



Mel was put on this earth to wear a wedding dress. Definitely a 1%-er.

Literally, when the doors opened and she walked into the room escorted by DK2 (her big brudder), there was a collective gasp.




(I've heard gasps before, but usually it's because someone trips and falls down some stairs.)

Megoon was a beautiful bridesmatron.



The ceremony was cute. The reverend yelled at the photographer for not sitting during his sermon.

"But I'm the photographer!" she whined...
He just shrugged... "Please sit."

Normally if I'm working, I HATE a strict rev, but in this case, as a guest, I grinned from ear to ear. The photographer had yelled at me when she accidentally backed her head into my camera while I taking a shot. "You have to keep at least TWO FEET AWAY FROM ME!!!") We could have been friends. But instead she chose to be enemies. Bad choice, lady.

Ahem.

Back to the wedding.

SO cute!






I just love Megoon's family.



DK2, what a hunk!



Between the ceremony and reception we had a 40-minute break. So Goon's brilliant brother and sister suggested we run to the closest CVS to get a print of an epic shot I had just taken at the ceremony.



Imagine the gleeful expression below except looking at the framed photo I had just given them. It was pretty much the same.



Oooh! There was a fun photo booth. I've decided to add a photobooth service as an an add-on to my wedding package. So easy and I can probably charge an extra 1K-1.5K. Woo!




I had also taken Mellis's engagement pic, which was prominently displayed. Yay....



Ohhhh after eating and dancing, there was a PIE BAR.



LOVES a pie barrrrr!!!!!!!!



The photobooth got kinda silly.



Oooh I think I may be shooting a Miami wedding for Hot Keith (below) and his fiance. Yayyyyy...



Loves fancy weddings leading to other fancy weddings!



Oh...I forgot to mention the entire day was INCREDIBLY SCORCHINGLY HOT.




But once we were drunky, it didn't matter.





Meg's mom got stepped on and rolled her ankle. Sadface. (I do love how DK2's mom seems to think it's hilarious though.)



Wheeeee!!!!



Air guitars!



Geek glasses!



The End.

Congratulations Mellis!!!!!

Napa Wedding!

Napa is beautiful. Bride and groom got ready at an inn overlooking a vineyard.




The actual venue for the ceremony and reception though was place called Tra Vigne.



Bride Arianna went to Brown. I did not know her there, but we have a lot of mutual friends and she found me through photos of mutual friends I had tagged on Facebook. Yay Facebook!






Arianna and Matt were quite possibly the chill-est couple I've ever photographed. Not that my other brides are un-chill. But they had zero demands, zero expectations (well high expectations, but I think they trusted me completely), and zero dramas.



At night the trees lit up around the venue and it became a wine-filled fairyland.




Petey Pablo and Katie Pablo were there...



As was Laku...



As were a ton of other Brown people!



Twas fun!




We LOVES Napa!