The Homestead Is The Sweetest Wedding Venue in Oak Glen

We’re back at one of my favorite venues on the planet with this spring Oak Glen wedding at The Homestead at Wilshire Ranch! This wedding venue in Oak Glen never fails to delight with the sweetest rustic elegance, overflowing garden, and mountainside reception views. I’ve been a photographer in Oak Glen for over a decade and it’s still one of my favorite venues. There is such a magic to this place that makes every wedding I’ve photographed there so special and unique that never fails create once in a lifetime memories for my incredible couples.

To top it all off, the staff at The Homestead is the best around! I LOVE a well run wedding and I especially love a wedding where the couple doesn’t have to worry about a single thing on their wedding day. That makes each wedding at The Homestead a joy to work.

A Long Awaited Wedding Day

F and J were ready to start the new adventure after seven years of dating. They met in college and held off getting married because to finish school. J told me that she knew F was the one when they sat in his truck eating pizza while still wearing their Pizza Hut uniforms. F told me that he still loves it when she just looks at him and smiles, J still makes him super nervous and happy. They’re the cutest!

These two both love enjoying the moment, especially because they both have high stress jobs as a therapist and special-ed teacher. That desire to live in the moment, especially on their wedding day is what first drew them to my work. They also love to laugh and as they got into my website they were drawn to the authentic emotions and laughter in my portfolio. J told me above all else she wanted genuine smiles and laughs from my wedding day, not “posed” picture perfect moments. They had me at genuine.

F & J are also Disney lovers and wanted a Mickey and Minnie included as a theme throughout their spring Oak Glen wedding at the Homestead at Wilshire Ranch. There were antique Disney elements everywhere and even had Mickey ears for all their guests! In fact, when we went to run amuck in the street at sunset they had their ears on and it’s my favorite. They’re also huge foodies which was another reason they chose The Homestead (can we say tacos and beer!?!!?)