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Real Weddings · Elk, CA

An Oceanfront Inn Minimony at Harbor House

Jillian & DanielJune 2021Harbor House Inn · Mendocino

Jillian and Daniel's oceanfront inn minimony at Harbor House was eight guests on the Mendocino coast in June 2021, a Pacific-facing ceremony with the water just past the cliff's edge. The getting-ready rooms, the lawn above the cove, one long dinner table — the whole day lived inside the same acre of old redwood and cliff grass.

Harbor House Inn was built in 1916, its bones old-growth redwood milled by the Goodyear Redwood Company. From the getting-ready rooms you could hear the water before you could see it. Daniel had the rings. Jillian had the dress on its hanger. Before anyone else arrived, they found each other outside for a first look with the Pacific behind them.

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Morning

Getting Ready at Harbor House Inn

Hair and makeup finished while the Pacific changed light through the inn's windows. The building had been standing on this cliff for over a century, its bones old-growth redwood, and the rooms had that settled quality old houses get. Daniel was somewhere down the hall with the rings.

Before the eight guests arrived, the two of them slipped outside for a first look. His face when he turned and saw her.

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Afternoon

A Pacific-Coast Ceremony Above the Cove at Harbor House Inn

They married on the lawn above the cove as the afternoon light went warm, the ocean stretching out flat and bright past the cliff. Eight people stood with them, the whole guest list close enough to hear every word. Live violin carried the day, and vows passed between them with the water at their backs.

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