The Nest

It's hard to believe that Amy Davis and Douglas Flanzer were engaged just six months -- their perfectly personalized destination wedding on Lake Tahoe looks like it could have taken a team of people years to put together, yet it took this super-organized duo hardly any time at all. "Doug was very involved and helpful in the planning -- I would not have married him otherwise!" Amy jokes.
 
The Bride Amy Davis, 30, retail buyer
The Groom Douglas Flanzer, 32, director of engineering
The Date May 21
 
The couple, who both grew up on the East Coast, met through a mutual acquaintance when Amy moved to San Francisco. They dated for three-and-a-half years before Doug proposed on a weekend at Half Moon Bay. Their weekend wedding was all about bringing together 140 family and friends from both coasts for a celebration that was as alive with color as it was with joy. "We wanted the event to feel festive," Amy explains. Inspiration came from an unlikely source: "I had seen shower curtains that were made of streaming colorful ribbons, and those inspired a lot of the décor," the bride says. Ribbons of all sizes and styles, though mostly in orange and hot pink, trimmed wedding day details from the bouquets to the tabletops.

 

Photos By: Geoff White Photography, San Francisco