Wow, well this is a first! Not two hours passed yesterday since we posted Becca and Anil’s wedding photos before the Destination Inspirations blog decided to feature it.

What a great site they have for anyone looking for wedding ideas:

 

We absolutely adore relaxed, intimate, and always warm wine country weddings and were excited to start our busy season with a wedding in Calistoga last weekend. We loved this site from the first glance, it is full of surprises and it lets you fall more and more in love with it the longer you explore it. Hans Fahden is located in the mountains right between Santa Rosa and Calistoga and it is a venue that has it all: Cabernet vineyards, a pond full of lily pads and koi fish, a beautiful wisteria covered tea house, and an amazing candlelit volcanic ash cave, just perfect for dinner. We’ve worked at this venue before and it never ceases to amaze us.

Becca and Anil live in Southern California so for them Calistoga was a destination. They did a fantastic job planning every single detail from so far away: everything was just perfect, and the day turned out to be absolutely beautiful. We have a ton of favorite photographs from this sweet wedding, here are just a few of them:

Becca’s beautiful dress was heavily guarded:

Do I even need to mention how much I loved Becca’s fabulous shoes?

Our handsome groom:

Hans Fahden has the most gorgeous ceremony setting: the area is surrounded by blooming flower beds and overlooks the overgrown Monet style pond:

Mike caught this moment at the ceremony, I absolutely love it:

After seeing this gorgeous cheese display, now I want cheese at my wedding too!

We loved shooting portraits in the garden around the pool – every branch was blooming and every turn opened new exciting photo backgrounds!

The cave goes deep into the hillside and is perfect for hot summer wine country reception dinners as it never gets hot:

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To view other gorgeous Hans Fahden Vineyard weddings photographed by Choco Studio visit:

Hans Fahden Vineyard Spring Wedding Photos

Hans Fahden Vineyard Summer Wedding Photos

Many years ago I fell in love with California for no other reason than it’s incredible variety. Variety of people, variety of foods, mountains, deserts, ocean and forests… It seemed one can never get bored here. I consider myself very lucky living here and think it’s one of the best places to be a wedding photographer – the overwhelming variety of people, traditions and venues keep us on our toes and always inspires us.

Well, here is just one more example of that. The last engagement session on our blog was winter-themed and was shot in the snowy Lake Tahoe area. For this one we went to one of the beautiful local parks where everything was screaming SPRING!

Liza and Andrew were awesome sports and really up for anything. Their wedding is coming up in just a few short weeks and we are greatly looking forward to it!

Natasha