San Diego Wedding by Erin Heart’s Court
I promised you guys that we had a great wedding coming up today. Well that was putting it mildly. Sent to us by the always swoon-able Erin Heart’s Court, this wedding is beyond inspiring, beyond gorgeous. The bride was an avid SMP reader (toot, toot) and has been sweet enough to stop by and share all of the behind the scenes goodness…which always makes the wedding that much more lovable.
From the gorgeous bride…
Sean and I met in 1996, if you can believe it — I was a tender 16 and he was just 20, and we were friends for a couple of years (though I had an enormous crush on him) before we started dating in 1998. We’ve lived in San Diego together, then Charleston, South Carolina, then San Francisco (where we live now). At the time we got engaged, my parents were living in Singapore (I grew up all over the place! Mostly Asia but also Europe and the Middle East), Sean’s were in Connecticut, and we were living in San Francisco; meanwhile, the majority of my extended family were in England, and a lot of our friends were in Charleston.
We had a million options for where to hold the wedding! I had always wanted a backyard wedding at home, and so we eventually chose Encinitas (about 30 minutes north of San Diego), where my parents were moving in April 2009 — this put a TINY bit of pressure on them (“So, uh, how was the backyard?” I’d ask casually when they were househunting), but it all worked out in the end. Still, they’d only been in the house 4 months when we held our wedding there! The ceremony was at a sweet little white chapel built in 1894 in nearby Carlsbad — it’s called St. Michael’s By-The-Sea, and I have to admit that I LOVED the name! — and the reception, as I mentioned, was in my parents’ back yard.
All this back story has a point, because we wanted to make our wedding about a couple of things: travel, distance, letter-writing, suitcases, maps, globes, that sort of thing (it kind of all fits together once you know our story!) Additionally, since Sean is American and I’m British, and we’ve got friends all over the country and the world, we knew a lot of people would be traveling from all over for the wedding, so the travel “theme” — although I hate to use the word “theme”; maybe “motif” is better! — seemed to work.
SO MUCH more to come!
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As always thank you so much for featuring our photography. You always do such a beautiful edit.
Who is her dress by? It is lovely
Such a pretty wedding, I love what I've seen so far!
Hi Courtney -- thanks for the compliment on my dress! It's made by Casablanca and it's style number 1816.
oh my oh my... this wedding is stunning already!
holly - would you mind sharing the name of that gorgeous script font on your programs??
I love holly burns - she is my fav blogger evah. Congrats Holly.
Hi Kelly -- Sean (my husband! Ha! Weird!) used a font called Feel Script throughout our wedding -- in the invitations, the programs, the menus, all the signs etc. Glad you like it!
Look at the way the car matches everything else! Super cute. Love her earrings too!
Holly and Sean are pretty much the best looking couple I've ever met. The creativity and design that went into this wedding blows my mind.
I can't wait to see more wedding photos.
Also from now on everything I do will be in Feel Script. I don't care if it is a rock n roll poster!
WOW, WOW, WOW! Love this wedding and steeling so many ideas from it! Gorgeous! Courtney and Erin are SOOOO talented! We can't wait to have them as our photographers as well!!
Brilliant. Beautiful. Am absolutely mad about their "motif". My fiance and I have chosen a travel scheme as well, and it's a challenge to design and/or find unique bits that are not silly or have loads of palm trees all over them.
Such a darling, sweet charm to this wedding. Would LOVE to see pic of guests with hats on! How I adore that about English weddings.
Lastly - she wore coloured shoes and jewels. LOVE LOVE LOVE that!!!
OH! What a fun surprise! Holly is one of my favorite bloggers, and it was a bit of a shock to see "familiar" faces on this blog. Lovely wedding!
Oh you lovely things you! What a gorgeous approach. Joy forever to you both.
WOW! GORGEOUS.
I want to see more.... Love it all
Beautiful wedding!!! Very inspirational. My best wishes for a wonderful life togethe!
Seriously AMAZING wedding.....oh the detail!! Love the colour, love everything! Congrats
Holly's smile says it all and it almost outshone the sun! I wish them all the best for a wonderful life together.
(Love the invitation your Hubby is holding!)
Dress is gorgeous!~ Where's it from?
Absolutely stunning! Every aspect. I love that Holly wore color :O)
L-O-V-E LOVE the shoes!!
Sharon -- dress is made by Casablanca, style 1816.
Where are the shoes from?! I love them!
Torrey -- I bought the shoes with the T-strap on super sale at Nine West just a few weeks before the wedding -- I wasn't actually looking for any, since I already had a pair (more on that in a sec), but when you see turquoise shoes, you can't pass them up! The original pair (which I wore on the day as well -- trading out when either pair started getting less comfy!) were Dyables (the style name was Erica) that I bought in white and had dyed at a place here in San Francisco. I brought in a piece of the turquoise paper we used for the programs, and they did a perfect job. The little white flowers on the front are actually just $2 hairclips I got at H&M and stuck right on there!
I came across this blog in a Google seach for Feel Script. I've been looking for a font to compliment it - Which did you use? Thanks in advance!
Terrific site, where did you come up with the information in this piece of content? I'm pleased I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.