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Featured: Dani + Kelly on Huffington Post!
January 24th, 2012
Ann & Tanner: Sonoma Winery Wedding
January 24th, 2012
As Ann and Tanner’s Sonoma wedding photographer, we moved into the tented pavilion at the always gorgeous Viansa Winery for their reception. Their wedding colors of pale yellow, cream, and off-white paired perfectly with the elegant and larger than life white tent nestled here in the lush Sonoma, California’s wine country.
Ann + Tanner: Viansa Winery Wedding
January 23rd, 2012
Viansa Winery in Sonoma, California is one of the most beautiful locations in all of Northern California. Viansa Winery describes their location best, “Viansa sits majestically upon a hilltop, providing breathtaking views of Sonoma Valley, vineyards, olive groves and wetlands. When you visit Viansa, you will feel like you are in Italy. All of our buildings and surroundings are Tuscan inspired. As in Italy, here at Viansa it is all about the marriage between great food, great wine and great people.” You can imagine how ecstatic we were when we arrived at this Viansa Winery oasis for Ann & Tanner’s wedding day! We loved being able to peek over the grapevines to catch some seriously incredible views of the landscape.
Ann and Tanner chose Viansa Winery for its destination wedding feel, which also created a more intimate setting for their selective guest list of 50. Ann was quite a DIY bride – creating all of the floral arrangements and decor herself with the help of her family and friends! She gathered a lot of her inspiration from poking around Anthropologie stores and collecting vintage vases and just drawing from her own personal style. Their wedding colors were a palette of pale yellow, soft cream, and off-white, pairing perfectly with the soft lusciousness of the Sonoma County landscape.
Ann was such a fun bride to work with! We loved sharing a laugh with her and her family before the ceremony.
Tanner and his mother sharing a quiet moment minutes as the ceremony begins inside the intimate Viansa Winery wine cellar.
Ann was absolutely gorgeous as she made her way down the aisle. The sun trickled through the doors into the wine cellar just perfectly to capture everyone’s entrance into the cellar for the ceremony.
This wine cellar room created the cozy and personal feel Ann was looking for. The best part about this smaller venue is that all guests in attendance feel included.
Following Ann and Tanner’s wine cellar ceremony everyone made their way towards Viansa Winery’s lovely white tented pavilion for dancing and reception fun! We also took some amazing portraits of the couple and their wedding party against the breathtaking backdrop of Sonoma County’s landscape.
Tinywater Studio News: Thoughts & Prayers, Please!
January 20th, 2012
If you’ve called, emailed, or visited Tinywater, then you already know our amazing studio manager and client concierge, Donna, who works so hard to keep us all on task and keeps our clients happy. We are so thankful for everything she does for us!
We are asking everyone for prayers for her husband, Ron, who after having hip surgery had sudden complications due to pneumonia and has been in the hospital ICU the past few days. Let’s all send our thoughts their way and hope for a quick recovery. ♥
lauren peterson
- donna, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time.xx,lauren erik
Maia & Alex: Vintage Sonoma Wedding Portraits
January 18th, 2012
When Maia and Alex approached us at Tinywater about shooting their wedding, they said they loved our personal, intimate approach and vintage wedding photos. We knew that with the ideas and location they had in mind, it would be a match made in heaven! Joining the lovely couple at Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness Center in Occidental, California, we were able to capture vintage wedding photos of the couple atop the “rolling ridgetop grasslands, rugged canyons, oak woodlands, and redwood groves hosting fields of colorful wildflowers” throughout their big wedding day.
The fog began to roll in just as Maia and Alex’s traditional Jewish ceremony came to a close. The fog diffused the light just perfectly as we snapped some of our favorite vintage wedding photos and couple portraits of the day.
Maia looks so lovely in this light! It also helped that she was the epitome of a glowing bride on her wedding day. We had so much fun taking both posed and candid portraits of her throughout the Ocean Song property.
The mix of soft brown grassy fields, lush green forests, and wildflowers throughout the Sonoma landscape allowed us to take a variety of vintage wedding photos all within a walk of each location.
Maia and Alex were great to work with, and we couldn’t wait to play around with some portraits including their bright blue vintage car.
We couldn’t stop giggling with these two, it was more like play taking these couple portraits! The large boulders sprawled across the landscape was a fun texture to play with as a backdrop to these vintage wedding photos.
The best part of being a Napa wedding photographer is capturing real love between two people. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
As the fog settled in, so did the chill in the air. After the lovely traditional Jewish wedding ceremony and couple portrait session, we slowly made our way out of the wildflower fields and into the cozy Ocean Song barn for Maia and Alex’s fun vintage reception. We couldn’t have asked for a better couple to spend the day with at one of our favorite locations in Nothern California’s wine country!
