When a Michael & Anna Costa wedding lands on my desk, I know it’s going to be a good day. They’re magnets for pretty soirees and totally in love couples, it’s true. And when they team up with a group of vendors like the lovelies listed below, it comes as no surprise that we’re left with a gallery as swoon-worthy as this one. It’s all right here, waiting to be perused!
From the beautiful Bride…Matt and I met outside a Coldstone Creamery in the fall of 2007, during an informal get-together before we started law school. (That Coldstone is now closed, but luckily, we’re not superstitious about chain ice cream stores.) We were in the same small group of 16 kids who had all our classes together for our first semester. We lived on the same block and became close friends right away. For various reasons, it took about two years for us to finally get together, and when we did, it was only with the help of two of our best friends, both of whom were in our wedding party.
Matt grew up in Santa Barbara, and I grew up in Los Angeles, so after we graduated, it made sense for us to move back to L.A. We both took the bar and are practicing attorneys, though Matt practices much more than I do. He works in-house, and I temp, but I’m mainly a novelist (I’ve written two detective novels, Follow Her Home and Beware Beware, both published by St. Martin’s Minotaur). We live with our basset hound, Duke, who is the droopy, lazy light of our lives.
He was not, unfortunately, involved in our wedding, though he did come in for some pictures, and we prevailed on our baker and wedding planner to allow us to display a basset hound cake topper not on top of the cake, but in a tasteful cloche next to it. We got married at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara, a nice walk from his childhood home. Our first date was actually right by the hotel, eating In-N-Out on the sea wall. My first visit to the hotel where I’d be married was to use the lobby bathroom during that date.
Photography: MICHAEL + ANNA COSTA PHOTOGRAPHY | Videographer: At A Glance Productions | Coordination: Ariel Yve Design | Event Planning: Ariel Yve Design | Floral Design: Tic Tock Couture Florals and Event Styling | Cake: Superfine Bakery | Lighting: SPARK Creative Events | DJ: PG Band | DJ: DJ Amara | Chair Rental: Chameleon Chairs | Linens: BBJ La Tavola | Music: Icy Hot Club | Photobooth: Genuine Photobooths | Rentals: The Tent Merchant | Rentals: Classic Party Rentals | Resort: Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis