Wedding 08.09.2010
NELSON jamaica
And again we find ourselves at Monday. Can you believe it? I sure can’t! I also can’t believe that we didn’t have a wedding this weekend! Now, don’t get me wrong, we love shooting weddings but it is definitley nice to get a little break once and while. It’s our one weekend off until mid November and it definitely left us feeling refreshed and ready to face the rest of the season (which is going to be awesome btw). I had three boudoir shoots on Saturday that were a TOTAL blast so special thanks to those ladies for making my weekend even better. B-shoots are the best! So with that, I’ll move on to the monday post that we have for you today.
Remember when I mentioned a few weeks back that we shot a SWEET wedding in the Santa Cruz Mountains? WEEEELL, that is what I’m sharing with you today. The wedding of Jamaica and Nelson. Well actually it was called a Love Party instead of a wedding by the couple. I thought that was pretty unique, and I’ll let them describe it for you in their own words:
“1. Our celebration will be bigger/longer/and more fun than the usual wedding. Think love! Think big! Think party! Calling it a wedding would just be inaccurate.
2. We are supporters of equal rights for all, including equality in marriage. We don’t feel right celebrating ‘marriage’ until it is a right that can be legally granted to everyone – including our gay and lesbian friends.
3. There are so many traditions/expectations/rules associated with ‘a wedding.’ We don’t subscribe to 90% of these and we don’t want these expectations to hold us back from celebrating our love and commitment in our own unique way with our community and family.
4. Turns out we are kinda hippies. What’s says love more than a love party?”
So there you have it, the love party was born! And a party it was indeed, but we’ll get to that, first let me tell you about the ceremony. (there is so much to say about this love party, so I apologize in advance if I go on and on and on and…….). They were married at the Sequoia Retreat Center in Ben Lomand. I have a slight obession with trees so obviously I was in heaven when we pulled up at the venue. The ceremony took place in a redwood circle and was the most unique ceremony I’ve ever seen. Jamaica and Nelson wrote it themselves and included aspects of who they are in everything. Each wedding party member had a reading, they did a Japanese Saki ceremony, they even had their guests marry them in unison so they were married by all their family and closest friends. To top it all off, the recessional song was Peace Train by Cat Stevens sung by the members of the wedding party!
The reception was off the hook with Virginia Reel and square dancing with a rockin Blue Grass Band,
The Dalton Mountain Gang. The food was grown locally and had my stomach doing some serious celebrating, AND the beer was brewed by one of the guests and it was to die for. Ok, sooooo, I could keep going but I’ll leave you to the pictures and might chime in here and there amongst the pics. Jamaica and Nelson, it was seriously such an honor to be a part of your love party. The love you share with each other and with those around you is amazing and something you don’t see every day. Thank you for being such an inspiration to us and we wish you the best in your commitment to one another! xoxo
Jamaica “created” her dress by finding the different pieces and putting it all together (with the help of lovely seamstress of course). This was much more of a fit for her than the traditional wedding gown. I loved it!
Jamaica and Nelson definitely have the vintage look going on so it was only fitting when Jamaica changed into her vintage reception dress.
