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This Wedding was Brimming with High School Spirit—And 10 Wedding Cakes!

Monday, August 3, 2020

They say let them eat cake. And that’s exactly what these high school sweethearts delivered for guests on their wedding day: 10 cakes—one for every year they’d dated. But the bride had been piecing together her big day at Rancho Las Lomas …

Why This Big Sur Destination Wedding Was Worth the One-Year Delay

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Corey and Joy must have the patience of saints—they took a rain check on their wedding for almost a year! The couple’s original date was in 2017, but stormy weather made the venue in Big Sur inaccessible for months. They agonized over …

Alpacas and Snow Were Just The Start of This Whimsical Australian Wedding

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Ara and Jorge’s Australian wedding included only 60 of their best mates, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t alpaca punch. In the country where they first met, the couple said “I do” at The Grounds of Alexandria, a former pie factory turned …

Breana and Kirk’s Romantic Irvine Wedding

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Kirk’s plan was as concrete as can be: Disguise his proposal as a weekend birthday celebration in Newport Beach. Following a surprise horseback ride, he took Breana to the coast to watch the sunset. “As the sun went down, he asked me …

Aundre & Jennifer’s Glam Riverside County Wedding

Thursday, July 11, 2019

New Year’s Eve has become an auspicious date in Aundre and Jennifer’s love story. It’s when they first met, on MySpace (“Yes, the dark ages,” Jennifer acknowledges), and it’s when Aundre popped the question five years later—so of course they chose it …

Chris & Haley’s Lush Temecula Wedding

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Haley ensured no detail was overlooked on her wedding day: her slate color palette for something blue, her mom’s 25th anniversary earrings for something old and something borrowed, and, well, her husband for something new. Consider also the bouquet, which was bound …

Alex & Alexa’s Rustic Boho Temecula Wedding

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Alex and Alexa’s journey to the altar had its fair share of big gestures. For starters, he proposed using the Jumbotron during an Anaheim Ducks hockey game. “He got down on one knee and everyone in the stands starting cheering and clapping,” …

Matt & Saundra’s Vintage Hawaiian Palm Springs Wedding

Monday, June 3, 2019

Right after she said “yes,” Matt and Saundra heard the usual wedding planning warnings right and left, like “The day goes by so fast; it’s done in an instant!” Which is why Saundra answered her gut suspicion—Why not make this last all …

Emily & Pierre’s Glamorous Melbourne Wedding

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Emily had the dress-shopping experience some brides only dream of: None at all. Her jaw-dropper was a bespoke piece by Tanya Didenko, only the latest in a series of stunning dresses the designer made for Emily after her appearance on The Bachelor …

Aly & Jason’s Mid-century Meets Tropical Palm Springs Wedding

Friday, May 3, 2019

You might recognize Aly and Jason from The Style Guys, the lifestyle and fashion blog that catapulted them to E! network fame—and true to the moniker, their midcentury-meets-tropical nuptials were stylishly Palm Springs. The Calgary, Alberta couple—who met in a bar (or …

Carlos & Kevin’s Mid-Century Masculine Palm Springs Wedding

Monday, April 8, 2019

Don Draper said that “advertising is based on one thing: happiness,” which Carlos and Kevin must have had in mind while planning their “midcentury masculine Mad Men-chic” wedding celebration. The Avalon Hotel & Bungalows Palm Springs, with its Old Hollywood aesthetic, was …

Alyssa & Cannon’s Elegant Italian Wedding

Friday, March 29, 2019

Florence, Italy To whoever said a bride never wears her wedding dress twice, we officially have a one-word reply: Scusi? Alyssa slipped into her Anne Barge gown for a destination wedding in Italy, and again for her reception a month later in …