San Diego • Temecula • Southern California
Traffic sets the timeline, the curfew sets the end, and the light at five sets the tone. We learn your story and tell it inside those hours.
Weddings in Los Angeles
Traffic decides more about a Los Angeles wedding than the venue does. Guests coming from three directions on a Friday afternoon will not arrive together, and the ones who left on time will be the last to park. Build honest padding into the start. Printing a four o'clock ceremony and beginning at four twenty is normal here, and the couples who plan for it are the ones who are not stressed at the top of the aisle.
Downtown and rooftop venues run on hard noise curfews. Amplified sound often has to stop at ten, sometimes earlier, and the buildings around a rooftop hold neighbours who will call. That works backwards through the whole night: the ceremony start, the length of dinner, the last song. We keep the ceremony tight so nothing after it is squeezed.
The late afternoon light is the reason people marry in this city. From about an hour before sunset the light comes in low and warm off the west, and it stays usable longer than it does at the coast because of the haze. Photographers will ask for the ceremony to land in that window. If you can give it to them, do.
Parking counts as part of the schedule and almost nobody treats it that way. Valet at a hillside venue, a downtown structure that closes a level, a street with permit only signs after six. Tell your guests where to leave the car in the same sentence you tell them the time. Rehearsals are worth doing on the actual site if the aisle involves stairs, which in this city it often does.
A few of the places couples get married here. Ask us about yours.
A personal ceremony, thoughtfully led.
Everything you need for a ceremony that feels warm, personal, and unmistakably yours.
Starting at $595
Check Your DateYour story. Your vows. Your moment.
For couples who want a completely personalized ceremony experience.
Starting at $995
Check AvailabilityPrepare for the years, not the day.
Four sessions with us, the eight module Get Your Ship Together curriculum, and the workbook and book posted to your home before you begin.
Starting at $600
Start Marriage PrepPrepare for the wedding. Invest in the marriage.
The Signature Ceremony, Marriage Prep and vow coaching, prepared together. Marriage Prep runs on the eight module Get Your Ship Together curriculum.
Starting at $1,595
Begin Your ExperienceSignature
Prepare for the wedding. Then keep going.
Everything in The Marriage Experience, including the eight module Get Your Ship Together curriculum, and then four more sessions across your first twelve months of marriage, at roughly one month, three months, six months and a year.
Starting at $2,150
Begin The First YearAlso serving Pasadena · Malibu · Santa Monica · Orange County · San Diego. Destination wedding inquiries are welcome.
Twenty minutes, no cost, no pressure. We talk about your day and whether we are the right fit.