Mission Bay Real Wedding: Maliwan & Matt

You know your city is cool when out-of-towners travel across the country to get married! In Molly and Matt’s case, they couldn’t resist the call of the ocean and planned a West Coast party for their destination wedding.

Maliwan Diemer, 33, and Matter Rivers, 39, met at a ballroom dance studio in Chicago, where they live. “We agreed to be dance partners and very soon afterwards we found ourselves being partners in life, too,” Maliwan recalls. After a surprise proposal while on vacation in Thailand, the two decided San Diego was the perfect spot for their wedding. It was a destination wedding for the couple and for most of their guests, who spent the whole weekend celebrating together by the beach.