Jacques + Walter's Poetry-Filled Redwood Forest Wedding // Pema Osel Ling // Watsonville, CA

Justin and I are heading back to Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center for another wedding tomorrow, so I thought it was time for a blog post about Jacques and Walter’s incredible wedding day last summer. I recently wrote a long piece for them. magazine about their nuptials that you can read here, if you’re so inclined, but I’ll keep this brief: this wedding moved me, not just because these two are friends of ours, and not just because marriage equality has only been legal for three years. They are a perfect match. Their families and friends knew it, too, and the atmosphere of this wedding was electric, the details and the styling were impeccable, the whole thing was wonderful and magical and adjectives upon adjectives upon adjectives. I’m talking custom-made blue suits, polka dot bow ties, a Boy Scout camp-turned-Tibetan Buddhist retreat-turned wedding venue, Golden Girls divinity candles. I’m so excited to go back to Pema Osel Ling this weekend to experience the redwoods and the stars and the wild quail all over again, and I’m thrilled to share these pictures of Jacques and Walter’s wedding.