Mountain Terrace Wedding » Woodside, California

Ree and Osceola’s wedding day unfolded beneath towering redwoods at Mountain Terrace in Woodside, California, where Ree prepared with her closest friends before sharing an intimate first look with Osceola. The celebration was thoughtfully designed to strengthen community connections through meaningful rituals that honored their relationship with loved ones. As the warm summer day progressed, they exchanged heartfelt vows in a ceremony that perfectly captured their intentional approach to marriage. Afterward, guests gathered for dinner and listened to moving toasts that celebrated the couple's journey together before concluding with everyone dancing well into the evening as the coastal fog began to creep inland.

Their wedding day in Ree’s own words from their website commemorating their union:

“it was so much more magical than we could have ever imagined!!! it was spiritual, ancestral, playful, light hearted, divine, healing.. &it honored all of our parts..

​we jumped the broom and witnessed our mothers light candles to honor the sacred union. we read sobonfu some as the grounding guiding text for our love. we poured libations for the ancestors of our lineage. we shouted asè and heard briana ward’s echo. we laughed and smiled in awe and glee as bri stole the show with her claps and laughs and adlibs and giggles. we cried during speeches of uncles who remembered the father of the groom. alphius ward. father of osceola. proud ancestor sending flowers from heaven. 

 we held hands and sang delta hymns. we cut cakes and cut rugs and danced to the oldies of our childhoods. 

 it was the most perfect day. and even as we know that perfection does not exist, it truly was the most perfect day. because each of you showed up in love, as love, and welcomed us to do the same. each of you poured from your own altars of ancestral magic wisdom and curated a web of care that held us in this shepherding. 

​community came from far and wide to celebrate our union and it meant so so much to us.. to feel so deeply loved and held by so many beautiful souls, and to know that our love is so deep rooted in sacred beloved community, it was a deeply transformative experience.. 

​thank you thank you thank you to all of our beloved community who came from all over the country to honor this love.. #blackloveheals.. forreal.. in all it’s phases, in all of its forms..”

Vivian Chen

Documentary travel and wedding photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California.

http://www.vivianchen.com
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