Erik & Julianna
A ceremony in the sunken garden of one of the most photographed buildings in California, and a recessional walked through a corridor of family throwing white petals.
The way it felt.
They came back up the aisle through a tunnel of raised hands and white petals, both of them laughing, family pressed in close on both sides. The whole thing lasted maybe fifteen seconds and it is the heart of the film.
The reception carried on into the evening around a tiled fountain, cross-back chairs and blush florals against all that white stucco. It is a compact, unhurried kind of wedding day, and the courthouse gives it more grandeur than any amount of styling could.
On Santa Barbara Courthouse.
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is a 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival landmark and one of the most photographed buildings in California. The Sunken Garden gives a ceremony an enormous lawn framed by arcades and palms, and the building's white stucco and red tile hold warm afternoon light better than almost anything we film against. It is a public landmark, so the day moves around the building's rhythms rather than the other way round.
