This couple held their sweet little ceremony and reception at The El Dorado Kitchen in Sonoma, CA, (the perfect setting for such an intimate gathering!), and coordinated by the talented ladies at ASavvy Events – I love working with them!  I had so much fun with these two, they had such a sincere and strong love for each other and their beautiful family!  * You’ll find a cute updated story on this wedding below….

* I loved the story of how Kelly and Yoshi came together so much that I asked her for it one more time so I could put on my blog : ) And I can’t believe the collection of world travelers they had at their wedding, what an amazing family!!

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“Yoshi and I met as exchange students in Tokyo over 10 years ago. We’ve always been in touch off and on over the years but then he got in touch again about 3 years ago and we just kept emailing so often that it became multiple times a week. We were living in different cities at the time. He then invited me to go with to his friend’s wedding in San Francisco so we re-met in San Francisco. We just got along so well. And so we began a 1.5 long distance relationship between Vancouver and New York.

Finally I was able to get a transfer via work to the bay area and he moved out here to be with me- 4 months later we were engaged!

90% of the guests were from out of town
Family came from Vancouver, Ottawa, San Francisco, and Tokyo
Friends came from New York, Washington DC, Spain, Cambodia, Singapore, Germany”

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Yoshi’s 9 year old nephew gave a speech at the reception, his notes are below in Japanese – so sweet!! Congratulations Kelly & Yoshi!!!!