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Clockwise from top: A strawberry mule. Charred calçots and asparagus by COMPONERE FINE CATERING. A smoked duck appetizer. The BASH PLEASEproduced affair featured a live-fire station. KYLE THORPE and ANNA GRAHAM, wearing MARTHA MEDEIROS. Opposite, clockwise from top: The couple cuts into THE SOLVANG BAKERY cakes. A place setting by MARIGOLD. A vineyard view from the communal dinner table.
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Anna donned an ethereal Martha Medeiros gown. “It was Martha’s first custom dress in the United States,” Anna says. “The lace was handmade by a group of women artisans from Brazil’s Alagoas village. They worked on the lace for 18 months and it took three months to put the dress together.” Anna carried a brooch that belonged to her late grandmother in her dried, white wildflower-inspired bouquet. At the cocktail hour, the 170 guests enjoyed bites of beet-cured kampachi, morel and ricotta toast, halibut ceviche with candied lemon and vegan chicharrones, with tomatillo, avocado and Fresno chile pepper and sipped spicy mezcal margaritas. Dinner was served on a stunning 200-foot-long communal table decorated with local citrus and lively, naturalistic bouquets that San Francisco florist Marigold loosely placed within handformed ceramic vases. After the newlyweds’ first dance to Coldplay’s “A Sky Full of Stars,” they cut into three cakes from The Solvang Bakery — chocolate, vanilla and red velvet. Before the party disbanded, guests were treated to gourmet sliders with a side of fries and glasses of espresso martinis — a fittingly delicious end to the night. “From day one, we knew our guests would be in for a culinary treat,” Anna says. • CAROLYN MEERS