They Planned Their Vineyard Minimony from Iowa and Trusted Us with Everything

Eight People Who Made the Trip

Family photos stayed on the vineyard property, easy logistics when your wedding party fits around a single table. The Carneros afternoon light was doing what it does in June, and Viera Photographics got the portraits done while the wine was still being poured.

The property gave them more to work with than a single vineyard view. The Adobe Mission building, the eucalyptus groves, the lotus ponds. Cline's grounds have several distinct settings within a short walk of each other, and with eight guests the group moved easily from one to the next. For a couple who had never seen any of it in person until that day, the property kept delivering more than the photos had suggested.

Dinner at Cline

The reception was the same place as the ceremony, no shuttle, no move, just the vineyard and the eight people they'd brought with them. Cline's in-house catering ran the food, a team that knows this property every season. Sweet C's Cakeshoppe handled the cake.

They wanted a day they could enjoy without running it. That's what they got.

Cline is open April through October, and a late-June evening in Carneros has a particular warmth: the vineyard rows catching the last of the afternoon light, the eucalyptus holding the heat, the bay fog still a few hours out. For eight people who had trusted a shortlist and traveled from Iowa, the evening was quiet and held together, exactly the trust-the-planner vineyard minimony they had asked for from the start.