An Adobe Mission Vineyard Wedding at Cline Family Cellars

Family, Friends, and the Mission Grounds

Portraits happened around the property afterward, working through the family groupings and the couple's own portraits with the gardens and the adobe walls behind them. The site carries its history openly: Cline's grounds are also home to the California Missions Museum, where a full set of scale models of all twenty-one California missions is kept on display, saved from a 1939 exposition auction and held together on the property ever since.

Sabrina and Wilson had the run of it, the eucalyptus, the ponds, the mission walls, for as long as the light held.

Lunch, Toasts, and Cake Under the Trees

Lunch was a buffet served with warm sourdough and sweet-cream butter, a Napa Valley greens salad, roasted root vegetables, rosemary potatoes, sage-butter pesto raviolis, braised short ribs, and sliced tri-tip, while the twenty-one guests settled in at the tables under the trees.

Toasts went around, and then the couple's own cake was cut and served to the room alongside cheesecake bars and mini strawberry shortcakes with coffee. The dancing followed, and the small crowd stayed on through the early afternoon before the day wound down.