Last week we held a jump-for-joy worthy giveaway to celebrate one of our all time favorite destination locales, Napa Valley. You remember the one right?!? The one where one lucky SMP reader wins $2100 worth of products and services! To enter, all that we asked was that you leave us a brief comment telling us YOUR dream destination. We wanted to know if you could get hitched in any spot in the world, what would it...

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This is one of those … WOW … kind of weddings sent to us by Tiffany at Adeline & Grace Photography.  On their blog, Tiffany, remarked that she was literally on ‘visual...

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Pretty much any wedding in Napa is gorgeous, but when you combine the awesome wedding venue of Auberge du Soleil with a drop-dead gorgeous bride wearing a truly amazing Vera Wang gown … hmmm … fabulous!

One of our newest Little Black Book photographers, Wayne Yuan sent us Susan and Erich’s beautiful...

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We are all about Sylvie Gil today. First, it was a showstoppingly lovely, modern soiree at a Wine Country Inn. Next up, this incredibly sweet, utterly charming affair at Barndiva in Healdsburg. Sylvie is a genius behind the lens (check out the links at the bottom of the post) and really did a beautiful job with this wedding…managing to capture the pure love and...

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Little Black Book member, Gia Canali describes herself as a globe-trotting photographer and writer who, along with her husband and dog, calls Los Angeles her home. She is, in our opinion, one of the best … photographer and writer! Her blog is entitled, “Pursuing The Picture Perfect Wedding”...

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Mike ~ of Jensen Wedding Films ~ sent us this clip from a recent wedding he was filming …

from Mike … Rajinder and Justin held their fabulous wedding Saturday at The Pavilion at more...

Now on to the really gorgeous part of today’s real wedding…

all images by the wonderfully talented Lauri Levenfeld of Zoom Photography

From the beautiful bride…

When our guests arrived at the Silverado Resort in Napa they were greeted with a welcome box filled with Virginia peanuts, homemade sugar cookies, water, mints, a map of Napa’s vineyards, and a letter from Steve and me. The...

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Love, love, love this modern, Healdsburg affair that the ever-talented Sylvie Gil sent us. The venue itself is enough to make me book a ticket tonight, with its contemporary style and California chic vibe.

So much more to come!

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It’s so interesting to me, that you can have a really similar venue…a winery for example…and come up with two totally different wedding styles. It’s the reason that I always encourage you to find a venue that suits your personality and style, so that you can easily build a wedding around it. If today’s earlier wedding was easy going elegance, this next one is more modern and styled. And I LOVE it.

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I wanted to share a few more images and details from the Napa Valley wedding that Lauri Levenfeld shot…

More details from the bride…

During the ceremony, the officiant, a retired judge who is a family friend and who also happened to be my trial advocacy teacher in law school, remarked that our first encounter reminded him of the song “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific. This inspired our...

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