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Real Weddings · Sonoma, CA

A College-Sweethearts Vineyard Elopement at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards

Alison & ChrisNovember 2020Jacuzzi Family Vineyards · Sonoma

A college-sweethearts vineyard elopement at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards is what Alison and Chris built for themselves in Sonoma in November 2020, just the two of them, married outside a Tuscan-style estate on a clear fall afternoon. They met in college and stayed together, and when it came time to get married they wanted the whole day pointed at each other: a short ceremony, a walk across the grounds for portraits, and a glass of wine to close it.

So the day stayed small. They arrived at the vineyard together, said their vows in a stone courtyard with the estate around them, and spent the rest of the afternoon the way they had always pictured it — unhurried, close, and entirely their own.

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Afternoon

Arriving at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards

They arrived at the vineyard together in the afternoon, then split off to get ready. Alison went to slip into her dress while Chris found a quiet corner to pull on his tie. There was no wedding party to line up and no guests to greet early, so the two of them dressed a few rooms apart while the Sonoma vineyard rows sat out the windows.

Alison's gown was soft illustrated lace over tulle, with an illusion neckline, long sheer lace sleeves, and a low illusion-lace back. She wore her hair in a loose updo and a warm blush lip, and she waited by a set of tall arched wood-and-glass doors with her bouquet in both hands: blush and mauve garden roses and cream lisianthus, run through with dusty sage-green eucalyptus and copper-painted dried leaves, gathered loose rather than tight. Chris wore a blue suit with a burgundy floral tie, his glasses, and a small white-and-dried boutonniere, and he stood against the estate's honey-colored fieldstone wall in the afternoon sun. Getting dressed for a two-person Sonoma vineyard day runs a different way — no schedule to keep for anyone else, a little time to themselves before they walked out to the vines.