A celestial celebration 🌕✨
Erica & Rob’s wedding at Swallow Creek Ranch was something out of a dream — a warm, pristine day with white-capped waves in the distance and a soft coastal breeze in the air. After 14 years together, they stood with their children, surrounded by family and friends, and promised forever.
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The ceremony was heartfelt, the setting surreal, and the full moon rose like a quiet blessing over the evening. A day filled with meaning, memory, and love that’s stood the test of time. 💛
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Wedding Vendor Team 
Venue: Swallow Creek Ranch @swallowcreekranch 
Catering: Chef Cordelia Catering @chefcordelia 
Florals: Farmermaid Flowers @farmermaidowers 
Ociant: Isabel Mason (friend) 
Beauty: Makeup by Janet @muajanet Hair: @ianmaxion
Cake: AutumnCakeDesign @autumncakedesign 
Entertainment: DJ Shawna @shawna_mox 
Photography: SLOtography @slotography 
Wedding Coordinator: Wild Coast Rituals @wildcoastrituals 
Rehearsal, Decor + Desserts: Mia Rudd (bride’s sister) 
Rentals: SLO Party Rentals @slopartyrentals 
Bar: TBD

2 hrs with Corina+John on wedding day

What magical sequence of choices and fates have led me to a place in life, where I might be invited into celebrations like these…each unique, and then some profoundly so, (like yesterday with Natalie & Jaron), leaves me in a daze of gratitude. If you’re like me, and you get a contact high from Joy, perhaps you may be best served to start up a wedding business on a whim…and then, maybe, just maybe, you’d find yourself attending some of the world’s greatest weddings featuring its most excellent natural creations (human & landscape). It may sound quite enticing, it may not, but whatever it is, it is work.

17 years in, each Sunday, I wake up thoroughly exhausted and what drags me out of bed…well, it is literally my daughter (Juniper, 4, a blessing for another post) but if it weren’t for her, I’d still by crawling to my computer to see what my camera absorbed from the night before. And if you’re like me, these images may incite some kind of feelings, maybe invite in a particular mood, and I hope that, (like mine), it’s a good one.

If this sounds like a level of commitment you don’t care to add to your life, at least during this go-round the sun, just follow along ;). I’ll continue until I lay down my camera and I…thanks for the constant inspiration, all you beautiful people.

This week, I’d like to spotlight the uniqueness, beauty and love of Natalie & Jaron <3.

Vendors
Venue: @madonnainn1958
Photo: @slotography + 2nd @juneauwongphoto
Catering+Bar: @madonnainn1958
Film Photobooth: @farmtoframes
Tattoo Bar: @indigotiger.tattooclub
His Suit: @addictedbespoken
Her Dress:
Line Dancing Instructor: @dancinwithjoslyn

17 years of weddings, and I encountered so many firsts last night watching the magnificent Natalie & Jaron dance thru their wedding day with glee and looking so fly doing it…(more to come). Among those firsts, a couple of stick & poke artists serving up on-demand tattoos and this, a vintage Portrait Photographer taking back their rightful spot as the “Photobooth” at the wedding reception. And just when it couldn’t get any cooler…line-up and line dance. If you didn’t know what the Madonna Inn was built for, it was this. Congrats newlyweds, and thanks for throwing an unforgettable party and adding us to the list! <3 (us being me and my date, @djdamiancamacho).