A Bluff-Top Micro Wedding at Timber Cove on the Sonoma Coast

The Micro Wedding on the Timber Cove Bluff

The ceremony was out on the bluff, by the red bench, with the ocean behind them and chairs set in a symmetrical layout for the fourteen. Kevin's brother, Ryan, stood as officiant, he walked in first, then Kevin came down with his mom, Shannon, on his arm. Melissa walked last with her dad, Dana.

The vows ran on the edge of the coast, close family in every chair, the wind off the Pacific steady through every word, the sound of the ocean the only thing past the chairs and all the setting anyone needed.

“Fourteen people on the edge of the Sonoma Coast, the ocean just past the chairs.”

Portraits on the Cliffs. Sonoma Coast Bluff Ceremony

Family photos and couple portraits came right after, out across the resort property while charcuterie and champagne boards were set in the Commune Room. Timber Cove has given its cliffs to artists since the 1960s, the sculptor Beniamino Bufano built his landmark Peace Statue there, ninety-three feet of obelisk rising off the rock above the water, and that same coastline was the landscape behind Melissa and Kevin's portraits before the light started to turn.

One Long Table in the Commune Room

Everyone came back into the Commune Room for a mini cocktail hour, then dinner at one long table, six chairs to a side, two on the ends. The first dance came first, then Melissa and Kevin's own toast, then a plated dinner. Dana gave the father-of-the-bride toast, and the dances kept going from there: Kevin with his mom, Shannon, then Melissa with her dad.

They cut a champagne cake from Sweet C's Cakeshoppe, textured in fine lines, with a strawberry compote inside. The night ended out on the coast with sunset photos on the bluff before the last light went.