Sakura & Nathan: Backyard Wedding
Sakura and Nathan’s wedding took place on Saturday afternoon at Nathan’s family’s home in Garden Grove. The details of this wedding were planned to a T, with lots of bold style, handmade details, and cultural elements.
The style of the wedding was BW stripes with red accents. While some brides do a second dress for the reception, Sakura wore a white dress that showed her striped BW stockings and 3 different shoe changes (well, actually 4 if you count the ones she wore while getting ready). Her first set was a fierce red high heel with deadly spikes! Nathan wore a BW striped tie and red converse shoes.
Sakura and Nathan chose not to see each other until the ceremony; however, beforehand they wanted to do some formal pictures with the bridal party. Sakura had a mix of bridesmaids and bridesmen.
Rambo and Halo the “kids” with handler Amber. She brought them down the isle with her during the ceremony!
Team Sakura’s Bridal Party Wars! Guys: 0, Girls: 1
Sakura waited with her father in a BW canopy tent as guests arrived. I think everyone was pretty surprised when her sisters unzipped it and Sakura came walking out to a Muse song. Guests were seated at their tables as they watched.
More info about the wedding
- Site: Nathan’s family home in Garden Grove
- Desserts: A. Cake – Ebisu Roll
- Make Up: Amy Tervis
- DJ: Chirs Gagon
- Photo Booth: Oh!Snap
- Photography: SherriJ + Dawn Topete (thanks for the behind the scene shot below!)
@ 10:54 am
Oh man I love the stockings and the gnomes! So fairytale cute!
@ 10:59 am
These photos are amaaaaazing!! Love them, they capture the day so perfectly <3
@ 12:36 pm
Totally gorgeous – love all the stripes!
@ 4:22 pm
As always, great photos! And a nicely themed wedding!
@ 11:22 pm
What a great call by going with bright colors, they really make your photos pop!
@ 11:22 pm
Gorgeous photos of an amazing wedding!
@ 11:23 pm
These look amazing! Congratulations you two!
@ 12:36 am
Beautiful!
@ 1:49 am
You look beautiful Sakura!!! Such fun and adorable themes going on! I love it! 😀
@ 4:39 am
Okay, these are like, the MOST awesome wedding pictures ever, of the coolest outfits and folks. Your shoes ROCK, and Halo’s mohawk was combed, even!
@ 5:38 am
Beautiful photos, totally captured the energy and beauty of a wonderful day.
@ 6:58 am
Awesome photos. Awesome wedding.
@ 7:01 am
Gorgeous photos to top off a gorgeous moment!! xx
@ 7:26 am
Beautiful photos! What a perfect day! 🙂
@ 7:44 am
Fantastic photos! They really capture how amazing the whole event was.
@ 8:05 am
Great pics Sakura! It was an honor to be a part of your special day 🙂 thanks again!!
@ 8:10 am
These are beautiful photos! They came out fantastic.
@ 8:11 am
What great wedding pictures! LOVE the theme…looks like so much fun! Conragats, Sakura and Nate!!
@ 8:15 am
These are pretty amazing. Tuxedo Rambo is so stunning in high definition!
@ 9:05 am
Your photos are absolutely beautiful congratulation NATE & SAKURA!!!
@ 9:13 am
These pictures are amazing. They show just how stunning you both were on your special day. I’m so happy for you both.
@ 9:15 am
What a great wedding and amazing photos! Congrats! (and I think I’m the 20th comment!)
@ 9:55 am
These make me want to get married all over again 🙂
@ 10:15 am
Wow, these pictures are AMAZING! LOVE the wedding dress! 🙂
@ 10:16 am
Great wedding! Love you guys!
@ 10:24 am
It was a fun wedding! You looked beautiful Sakura!
@ 10:38 am
Congratulations! Amazing. I love, love the style you went with. It was very unique and beautiful at the same time. The style had Sakura written all over it, which I love her sense of style and fashion. Wishing you both only but the best.
@ 10:50 am
Beautiful Pictures of a Beautiful Wedding! One of the most fun weddings I have been to!
@ 10:56 am
These are the most amazing wedding photos I’ve ever seen! Gorgeous, creative and most of all – fun! I’ve seen so many manufactured, boring and stuffy wedding albums. So much personality and a real pleasure to look through!
@ 11:48 am
a-mazing! this was a super fun event, so glad I could be a part of it! congrats again!
@ 11:48 am
a-mazing! this was a super fun event, so glad I could be there! congrats again!
@ 1:56 pm
What a beautiful day this was. <3
@ 4:18 pm
I love the theme of this wedding – so very original and imaginative. And the Bosties – well, they just add the finishing touches
@ 5:37 pm
LOVE IT!!
@ 8:12 pm
Amazing photos! Congrats Sakura & Nate <3
@ 11:32 pm
Sherrie did a great job!! thank you so much for the great memory.
@ 12:54 am
Lived with these two for a while, brings back some good memories. These are some powerful images, it has captured a side of them that I’ve never seen. It could also be all the pajamas I was used to seeing, but the occasion really brought out the love inside them.
Love the vibrant colors, popping contrast and DOF. It’s easy to forget how interesting and carefully planned everything at the wedding was, with all the people and the activities to mind, so it’s nice to be able to look back in a relaxed state, taking it all in one photo at a time.
On a final note, it’s a shame that Halo looks disinterested 🙂 Maybe she’s holding back her tears…
@ 5:18 am
what a beautiful and personal statement to make on your wedding day!
@ 6:09 am
Congratulation!!
Sakura – chan is very beautiful !
From Japan
@ 10:24 am
My fave is bride peeking over groom’s shoulder, and I love the energy of the “Bridal Wars”, oh yeah and the ring shot on the army guys – very funny!
@ 10:42 am
Great pictures!!!
Your creativity on all the details really shined that day!!!
@ 11:04 am
Very cute & super creative wedding, indeed! Had a great time, THANK YOU Saku-chan and Nate!! Congrats!!
@ 1:28 pm
Congrats and welcome to the family Sakura! Thank you for allowing me to be part of it!