A Wedding Photographer’s Colorful Smoothie Themed Wedding!

Lauren Megerdichian
October 20, 2019
Categories: Real Weddings, The Blog
Tags: Skyscape

When one of the best of the best wedding photographers gets married – you know it’s going to be extra special. Cavin Elizabeth’s smoothie-themed wedding is just what our Sunday needed! The story of how their planner, Amorology, came up with their delicious wedding theme truly couldn’t be cuter. After a few messages back and forth on Ok Cupid, Cavin subtly asked for smoothie recommendations… and the rest was history. Amorology wow’d us (yet again) with their fruity creations, from a “Smooth Moves” escort display to colorful, edible table decor. Top it all off with the coolest most fashion-forward wedding dress we’ve ever seen, plus cheerful arrangements from Compass Floral and there you have it – it was truly a day to remember! Trust us, you’re going to want to check out the full gallery captured by Tenth & Grace… it’s an absolute MUST.

From the bride.. I, Cavin, am a wedding photographer and the owner of Cavin Elizabeth Photography, as well as the author of A Bride’s Guide to a Picture Perfect Wedding. David is a software engineer and the founder of Aventrix – a website that helps people discover fun events and activities throughout the US. We met online through OkCupid in 2012. For our first date, we met in Dupont Circle for beer and pizza and the location served as one of our signature cocktail names at the wedding. David and I spent every weekend together afterwards and the rest is history.

I love miniatures so much! David knew this and would often gift me miniature packages with handwritten addressing filled with tiny goodies for my birthdays. For the proposal, he suggested we visit Catalina Island as a 5 year anniversary trip. The first night, we were getting ready to have a picnic on our hotel balcony when someone knocked at the door to deliver three miniature packages. The first contained a miniature cat, the second a miniature kitten, and the third my engagement ring. It was a very meaningful and adorable way to propose and gave us the name for our second wedding signature cocktail!

We chose the Fairmont Grand Del Mar as our wedding venue as it was the closest thing we could get to Europe in San Diego. The Fairmont has gorgeous Mediterranean pink walls, Cyprus trees, and exquisite architecture. As a photographer, a variety of portrait opportunities was hugely important to me in choosing our venue. We also wanted to pick a location that would truly wow our guests.

Lastly, being entirely al-fresco topped our venue priorities list, as we wanted guests to experience the sunset and evening under the open skies. We booked Heather of Amorology to plan and design our wedding because she is excellent with color. She’s also skilled at creating a theme that honors the couple’s personalities and history.

Heather was drawn to the following story of our relationship and created a theme based on smoothies and fruit for our wedding: Since we met online, David and I messaged back and forth before meeting. A few messages in, David didn’t return one of mine. I decided to message him again (double message, so risky) under the premise of asking for smoothie recipe recommendations. He had mentioned smoothies on his profile and I figured that was a good excuse. I told him I would be making some that weekend and needed some ideas… He wrote back something about blueberries and once again we were talking back and forth. Just to be clear, I had zero intention of making those smoothies. Those were my smooth moves.

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