Jen and Jason: Wedding

In this post, I’ll be covering the fabulous wedding of Jen and Jason, which took place last weekend in “one of the FIRST great Wine Country establishments”, the Auberge du Soleil.  And what a wedding!  When I first arrived and left my Prius with the valet, there was a gentleman about my age who immediately waved me over to the table he was sitting at by himself next to a fountain.   “You must be Kenneth,” he said calmly.  My jaw dropped.  Holy cow!  How did he know that?!  It turns out that the groom had mentioned to his friend before that we looked alike.  What do you think?

Eventually the guests were allowed to step out onto the patio where there ceremony would take place.  When I spied the overjoyed (or… hysterical) “bride and groom” at the altar, I wondered for a moment whether I had showed up at the wrong wedding… Luckily, it turned out that one of the young brides here was already married to the “officiant” in the photo, hehe.

After they had their turn, Steph and I took our best shot at the altar too, though we both wondered how amazingly embarrassing it would be if they started the wedding right at that moment.  Anyway, the sunlight was pretty harsh, so I should probably go back and adjust the highlight levels in this photo…

I’d heard that the famous Scott Robert and rising star Junshien would be shooting this wedding, and I had the opportunity to catch them in action.  In fact, my impression is that Junshien was the main photographer for the wedding.  Nice!  Wow, check out the double-team action!

Actually, it was pretty cool to watch them at work, and I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to distract them at least for a moment.   No, I did not just paste myself into the photo!

Okay, back to the wedding.   Here is the waiting groom.  Though if I was a better photographer, the Best Man would not have ended up looking like the center of attention.  Whoops…

The father and bride entered and a flood of sunlight poured in from above them.

Jen was seriously glowing.

Here are the camera people hard at work.  The periscope shots are always fun!

Ah, the vows… I have never been up this close at a wedding.  4th row!  =]

Fast forward to the fancy dinner!  My favorite course was definitely the baby fruit salad and white chocolate passionfruit mousse napoleon (okay, I totally botched up the name I’m sure).  Steph’s scallop was definitely at least 50% bigger than mine (photo enlarged to do it proper justice).

Finally, at the end of the evening, Steph had a MV high school reunion photo.  As I snapped the shots using a camera from each of the ladies, one onlooker commented, “Wow, Kenneth, that is a PARKING LOT of cameras!”

Overall, it was a beautiful wedding that was extremely enjoyable.  Thank you very much, and congratulations, Jen and Jason!  You were made for each other!  =]

For more photos, check out http://niftyken.stanford.edu/gallery/v/Weddings/wedding_jenjason/