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Real Weddings Magazine Inspiration Board: Presenting Diane and David Feinstein
The Couple: Diane and David Feinstein
Wedding Date: April 17, 2010
Photography by Chuck Roberts Photography
Tell us a little about you and your beloved: Dave and I met in February 2007. I had just started working at the City of Fairfield as a Housing Project Manager. I met the Senior Planner, Dave Feinstein, my second day there, and we went on a field trip with two other co-workers to tour an affordable housing development in a nearby community. We had lunch on the way home and I learned Dave mom’s side of the family had lived in Bay Village, Ohio, for several generations; Bay Village happens to be the community right next to where I grew up my entire childhood, Avon Lake, Ohio. Dave had been to Bay Village, too, and I found it amazing what a small world to have that close a connection.
I also like the fact that Dave was fun and interesting to talk to. I guess Dave felt the same way because he managed to find opportunities to talk to me in the next few weeks, and we ended up going to the same dinner out party with co-workers at Lucca’s in Sacramento. Dave managed to subtly sit next to me and it was then that I began to suspect that, hey, he might be as fascinated by me as I was by him. We had lunch the next week before Dave went to San Diego on a business trip and I said in an email that he could call me at home if he liked while he was gone…well, he did, and the rest is history…I have never been happier!
What was the most amazing part of your day? Not a moment, so much as what the day symbolized. Our wedding was a joining of a couple but it was also a joining of a family, as I have two teenage children. They are both amazing kids who have truly accepted Dave and are grateful to see how happy he makes me.
I really enjoyed the fact that Dave chose to have my 15-year-old son Jared to be his Best Man and I chose to have my 17-year-old daughter Julie be my Maid of Honor. I couldn’t have been more proud! With the four of us comprising the wedding party, we designed a ceremony that would highlight us as both a new couple and a new family. Dave and I lit a unity candle (with a little difficulty, causing some laughter!). Dave and I also did a blended sand ceremony with Julie and Jared to show the unity of all four of us coming together as a family.
What else would you like to share about your big day? We had lots of friends and family members attend our wedding, but also lots of co-workers, since work was what brought us together. To symbolize that aspect of our relationship, we were honored to have the Mayor of Fairfield, Harry Price, officiate at our wedding. Dave and I knew right away that there couldn’t be a more fitting person to join us in marriage.
Ceremony Site: Old Sugar Mill
Reception Venue: Old Sugar Mill
Photographer: Chuck Roberts Photography
Wedding Planner: Dave and Diane
Caterer: TLC Catering
Cake: River City Cake Company
Flowers: Ambience Floral Design
Wedding Dress: Jordan Cashmere Dress; purchased at Downtown Gowns in Vacaville
Maid of Honor Dress: BM 1201 in Duchess Satin
Hair: Makeup Artistry and Hair by Ms. Lydia
Makeup: Makeup Artistry and Hair by Ms. Lydia
Invitations: Ordered through Chuck Roberts Photography
Ceremony and Reception Music: Camellia String Quartet
Honeymoon location: France
Any other of your wedding venors that you’d like to call out? We couldn’t have picked a better set of vendors – all of them. In particular, we’d like to thank TLC, Chuck Roberts Photography and Ambience Floral Design. Not only was TLC’s food fantastic, but they were a big help with colors and laying out the room. Chuck Roberts’s daughter Mackenzie is not only a great photographer (you get two excellent photographers!) but also extremely helpful in organizing how the whole event should flow. Finally, Katie at Ambience Floral Design seemed to know instinctively how to take our vision for what the our wedding should look and feel like and turn it into a reality that was better than we could have imagined. The Old Sugar Mill – a spectacular venue on its own – truly glowed that night thanks to Ambience.
First Dance Song: ”Always” by Irving Berlin
Any advice you’d give to our readers who are planning their weddings right now? Decide together what you both want and focus in on that. Oh, and interview several florists. We saw three in one day. Seeing the work of different professionals in such a short period really helped us focus on ideas we liked and ideas we didn’t. By the end of the day, we knew exactly how we wanted our wedding to look.
Anything that you would have done differently if you were given the chance? No, we truly worked together as a team to make this a memorable occasion for us and our guests!
Photos courtesy of Chuck Roberts Photography
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Save The Date..The Bridal Faire Presented by Carvalho Family Winery at Old Sugar Mill
You’re invited to to The Bridal Faire presented by Carvalho Family Winery at Old Sugar Mill.
Photo by Sarah Maren Photography, dress from Miosa, flowers by Flourish and earrings from Michael Greene & Co. Shot on location at Old Sugar Mill.
We had the pleasure of shooting at Old Sugar Mill a few issues ago for our cover model feature (and I did my Trash the Dress photo shoot there!) – so come see it for yourself at their bridal faire next week!
Here’s the 411:
When: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Time: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where: Old Sugar Mill at 35265 Willow Avenue, Clarksburg
Cost: $10, please RSVP to marnie@carvalhowines.com or call her at 916-744-1625
What You’ll Experience: Meet more than 30 top wedding professionals. See floral arrangements, table displays and lighting examples. Talk to event coordinators, DJs and photographers. Enjoy food and wine tastings and live harp music from Pamela Pamperin. Raffle prizes will be awarded every 30 minutes!
We’ll be there handing out complimentary copies of Real Weddings Magazine along with our Cover Model Entry forms! We hope to see you there!
Blog Post by Editor/Publisher Wendy Sipple.
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We’ve been blogged!!
Ok, we’re such suckers — we LOVE being blogged!!!
My friends Brandon and Kami from Sound Image Entertainment just emailed me to let me know about a wedding that they just posed to their blog…and it mentions Real Weddings Magazine!! Love that!
So I ventured over to their blog and got to check out their clients Tyler and Alicia’s wedding, shot by the talented Jodi Yorston (who just shot our cover model finalists shoot for our next issue of Real Weddings Magazine) at the Carvalho’s Family Winery at Old Sugar Mill.
We love this location — it was the locale for our cover model finalist photo shoot for the current issue. And, it’s close to my heart because I did my “trash the dress” shoot with Sarah Maren Photography at this location too!
Brandon and Kami are wonderful people, amazing wedding professionals — thanks for sharing Tyler and Alicia’s wedding with us — it looks like it was a lot of fun! I loved the songs that they chose for their wedding, particularly the theme from St. Elmo’s Fire. Congrats to you Tyler and Alicia on your wedding!
To learn more about Brandon and Kami and Sound Image Entertainment, check out their Web site: http://www.soundimagedjs.com/.
Blog post by Wendy Sipple, Publisher/Editor.
Now, the rest of the story!
Ok, now that you’ve heard my crazy wonderful wedding story, I have to admit something: while I had a blissful wedding day, the one item that I always wished I had, was the traditional gown. I loved that my husband was so thoughtful to buy me a gorgeous ivory silk suit for my wedding day, but I never got to experience the wedding gown.
When I told my girlfriend Sarah Maren (yes, of Sarah Maren Photography, sarahmaren.com — fabulous new Web site by the way!) about my wedding story, she suggested a “Trash the Dress” photo shoot. After many months of trying to grow my hair out just a little longer (I loved my snazzy short ‘do, but I really wanted to be able to have some fab hair goodies to go with the wedding dress — yes, I know I’m vain, but hey, if I’m only getting one chance to do this, I wanted to make it just right), the timing was just right. So in mid-October, I got all guzzied up as a bride once again, but this time in a fabulous wedding gown.
My hair and make-up was done by the amazingly talented Raquel at Image Provocateur in Roseville (vip-cat.com). Talk about feeling glamorous! Yowza!
Sarah, along with her husband Dustin (sarahmaren.com), was amazing and so fun to work with! Frankly there aren’t enough superlatives to describe just how amazing these two are — they directed me in just the right way to get the best possible shots. I had so much fun and felt so glamorous — I felt like the quintessential bride. I cannot thank you guys — and everyone else who contributed to my special day — enough for everything!
