private estate micro wedding at Wind and Sea Big Sur, Jessica & Sean at Wind and Sea Estates

Real Weddings · Big Sur, CA

A Private Estate Micro Wedding on the Big Sur Cliffs

Jessica & SeanOctober 2022Wind and Sea Estates · Big Sur

A private estate micro wedding at Wind and Sea Big Sur is what Jessica and Sean chose for October 2022 — twelve people on a six-acre point off Highway 1, with the whole property theirs for the day. The morning ran slow and close. The ceremony went out on the deck at the very edge of the land, and dinner came at one long table built out over the water.

Sean's father stood up as their officiant. Two young nephews ran the day at the ankles of it. And the marine layer sat low and grey over the coast the way it does out here, softening everything it touched.

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Morning

Getting Ready at the Wind and Sea Estate

Jessica's gown was a clean backless slip with a long veil and a row of small covered buttons down the spine. She got into it with her people close, while the Big Sur pines and the coast sat just past the glass of the estate's living room. When she came out to meet the family who had made the drive, the whole room threw their hands up. A man clapped by the wood stove, a woman turned in a floral dress, and a nephew in a little grey vest craned to see. Downstairs, Sean waited in a navy suit and a paisley tie, a white boutonniere pinned at his lapel.

Before the day gathered, the two of them slipped out to a quiet stretch of the garden for a first look. The coastal scrub and a curving rail stood behind them, and the ocean lay somewhere below the fog. Jessica came around with her white-and-green bouquet — garden roses and dahlias, a touch of blush, trailing greenery — and for a few minutes it was only the two of them.