Adam & Laura
A Jewish ceremony under a floral chuppah, a bluff over the Pacific, and a first dance under flowers that filled the whole room.
The way it felt.
The ceremony happened right on the bluff, vows exchanged under a floral chuppah with the Pacific running out behind them for the whole width of the frame. Adam and Laura's film was always going to open there.
The reception carried that same feeling indoors that evening, under a floral installation big enough to anchor the whole room, and it closed with a first dance that had both of them laughing halfway through. We stayed close and let it happen.
On The Ritz-Carlton.
The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel sits on a bluff above the Pacific in Dana Point, with a lawn built for exactly the kind of oceanfront ceremony Adam and Laura had. The light off the water runs soft most of the day and turns gold fast at sunset, so we plan around that window when a couple is marrying here. Indoors, the hotel's ballrooms give a reception real scale without losing the coastline it sits on.
