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The pictures are finally here! We literary can’t stop looking at them and just couldn’t wait to share them with you! Huge THANK YOU to all of our wonderful vendors who made the wedding day just perfect:

Photography: Greg Gibson Photography
Florals: Edgar @ Flowers by Edgar
Jewerly: Yael
Catering: Elaine Bell Catering
DJ/Band: Mark Haggerty @ Denon & Doyle
Hair & Makeup: Gayle Parker
Video: HD Video Memories

Also, I want to say a very special thank you to my friend Rimma, who always was there for me through the year of planning and did an amazing job coordinating everything on the day of!

Greg, I can’t put into words how thankful I am for you being there and capturing every single moment. After more then a year of preparation and all the detail planning your art is all that we have left after our wedding day. The images are absolutely amazing, I love them all! We are facing a humongous problem of choosing what to print for the walls now :) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Both my mom and I got super emotional during the preparations, I’m so glad Greg was there to catch it all!!

My a-a-a-m-a-z-i-n-g wedding dress (if I can say so myself :)

The most handsome groom ever!

I spent nearly a year in search of a florist who would understand my crazy ideas. When I met Edgar, it was love at the first sight, he was finishing my sentences and knew what I wanted better that I did myself. H e spent HOURS working on my bouquet and created the most beautiful and unusual one I’ve ever seen. I’ll tell you more about it later, for now I’ll just mention that not all the flowers in the bouquet were real :)

Our first look. I’m so happy we did it, it was a very special moment for both of us and it took some pressure off the ceremony.

We fell in love with this site right away, I could just see us getting married there!

The ceremony, officiated by our dear friend Michael.

You don’t even want to know the amount of hiking it took to get this picture! We came back to the house right at the ceremony start time and my mom was absolutely terrified when she saw that my dress and feet are red from all the vineyard dust :)

Going alone with our vintage travel theme, the placement cards:

The dinner table covered in clouds of Baby Breath:

A beautiful toast by Mike’s brother Alex who witnessed Mike and I meeting almost six years ago:

Poolside dancing was fun! (and apparently looked really good through the lens :)

This outdoor fireplace was one of the reasons we fell in love with the venue:

It was a truly amazing weekend, thank you to everyone who was there for us!

“When are we going to see your wedding pictures?” is the question we get bombarded with almost every day. Skype, IMs, Facebook messages, emails, and people we see in person – everyone has just one question for us! :)

Well, we have just received the pictures and we’ll be sharing them on our blog very soon! But for now I am going to share something I’ve been waiting to post for a super long time – our save the dates and wedding invitations!

Because our celebration was to last through the whole weekend, we felt that it was important for people to reserve the weekend well in advance, so the save the dates were a must. For the style of the wedding, we wanted it to be elegantly vintage, but at the same time to also reflect our love for travel. And so… our save the dates were made in the form of vintage travel tags, had a magnetic backing, and were tea stained to give them an aged look:

And here they are all bundled up and ready to go to a post office!

Now… on to the invitations!! We really didn’t want to send out something that was just paper that might get tossed right away. To go along with the vintage theme, we made a tour of antique bookstores and came back with a whole bunch of pretty old books which would become an essential part of the invitations.

I absolutely loved that each book was completely different and that nobody would get the exact same invitation:

Our wedding invitation went into the hollowed part of the book to the right. Also on the right there was an awesome funky map with the location details hand drawn by our talented friend Stefan. The pocket on the left-hand side held an RSVP card.

Everything was cut, glued, tea stained and painstakingly assembled into super cute packages and I was happy to hear that our guests were super excited to receive them:

More of our wedding photos coming soon! We promise.

We were super excited to be contacted by SF Chronicle about their “On the Couch” column! It was a bit weird answering a lot of personal questions to a total stranger, but at the same time it was really great to see ourselves from another person’s point of view.

Here is the resulting article (click on the picture to read it on SF Gate):