Luxe Vintage California Barn Wedding at Park Winters

Melissa Baran
December 14, 2018
Categories: Real Weddings, The Blog, Vintage Chic

There are some things you simply cannot plan for when it comes to weddings. For instance, the perfect golden hour that shines through these captures by Aloha Fotografia. Or, the incredibly powerful way these two interact with each other. Can you stand it? Their love is so bright and bold, it’s hard not to stare. With the help of With Grace and Love Events, this day celebrated that love so beautifully.

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From Aloha Fotografia… Rayna and Lohan were just two single twenty somethings when they met each other in 2015 in Brazil. Rayna lived there back then and Lohan was spending part of his vacation in Goiania – his family’s city. They had been “virtually” introduced some time ago by a mutual-cupid-friend that had lived for a while in California and told Rayna wonders about this sweet guy that – according to her – had everything to do with her.

Then, while they were both in Brazil, they went out, spent time together in Rio, fell in love and decided to embark on this exciting yet uncertain love story. One that they didn’t know where would take them. They knew just one thing: their love wasn’t ordinary and even thousands of miles would not keep them apart.

After over a year of long distance relationship, multiple trips back and forth from one continent to the other, in 2017 Rayna moved to California to start a new life with Lohan. During a trip they took to Montauk in August of the same year, he proposed to her on a stunning afternoon during sunset – her favorite time of day. Of course she said YES! They both were thrilled they got engaged in such a special phase of their relationship and since that day, they started putting a lot of time and thought into the planning of their big day.

Their ceremony took place at an exquisite country luxury estate, with a Victorian mansion, several green areas and gardens, modern pool area, a charming dinner patio and a sophisticated barn. The layout of the property allowed the guests to transaction from welcome drinks – held at the front lawn of property, to the ceremony at one of the gardens, cocktail hour by the pool, dinner on the patio underneath whimsical lights with live acoustic music, and dancing in the barn.

The lovebirds’ concept for their wedding was an enchanted forest for the ceremony, with stumps intertwined with baby’s breath throughout the aisle. The altar was composed of a four post arch with lush greenery and flowers dangling and intertwined; several stumps were also placed throughout the base of the altar. The enchanted forest concept was carried throughout the rest of the event with wooden pieces, fine touches of tile pottery and several candles on the dinner tables. Candles, greenery and stumps composed the dessert table as well, carrying the enchanted forest feel into the barn.

Different types of Brazilian sweets were placed on the dessert table along with a beautiful cake and delicate flower arrangements. The bride and groom love how pictures are physical fragments of memory, therefore they created a seating chart with polaroid pictures from each guest. The final charming touch for the décor was a magnificent flower wall, in front of which all guests could photograph themselves with polaroid cameras and register their special moments; the idea was for them to take pictures, keep some and attach others on the newlyweds’ custom guest book with a special message for them.

Finally, the guests couldn’t leave before taking with them a special farewell treat, a Brazilian “Bem Casado”, translated literally as “well-married”, which traveled over 6000 miles to make their guests happier at the end of the night. An amazing team of vendors from Brazil and California were responsible in making Rayna and Lohan’s idea come to life and they could not be happier with how everything turned out.