Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple!!! I apologize up front if I am rambling, this was a very special one to me! I knew Danica from OT grad school, and I was ecstatic when she chose me to be her photographer!!! It was even more amazing than most weddings because it was just two weeks after my first wedding anniversary, and it was 15-20 minutes from where I got married in Sonoma Valley!!! So, my husband and I happily flew out to California for me to shoot a wedding and also to celebrate our anniversary! It was absolutely the BEST of both worlds for me...I got to shoot a wedding, AND I was in California wine country!! We were blessed to get to meet up with the happy couple and many of their guests at one of their favorite wineries, Dutcher Crossing, where they stopped during a welcome bike tour. The night before the wedding I got to see where they were getting married, Kachina, for the rehearsal. What a gorgeous setting!! I was in heaven as I started to dream about the pictures I would take!!

The wedding day was just beautiful, at such a beautiful winery!! We started with a first look, then some family pictures before the ceremony. The ceremony was very special to me, with the officiant being another friend and also the groom of another wedding I was blessed to shoot. I can't explain how special weddings are to me, especially when I have friends that are a part of the wedding. I feel like I can't ever use enough exclamation points!!!! :) I had lots of fun catching up with friends a little, and meeting the fun guests during the reception! It was just an amazing day!!

Through all of the days, it was so awesome to see the love between these two. They are a couple that just obviously has fun together, and I hope you can feel that through the pictures. There was so much beauty through all of this, I could go one for a long time, but I will just stop and just say Happy Anniversary Danica and Matt!! I hope this day finds you extremely happy (and drinking great wine)!!