Tag archives: wedding
For once Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey wasn’t the center of attention when he came to Montecito. McConaughey, 54, was one of 13 groomsmen at the lavish wedding of Matthew DeVorzon, son of Oscar nominated composer Barry DeVorzon and his wife Jelinda, to Crystal Daly at their charming estate, just a tiara’s toss from Our Lady […]
Montecito realtor Timothy Di Prizito is tying the knot in style next month at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with two days of nuptial activities. De Prizito, who has been in real estate for 18 years, is plighting his troth with Mary Becker Velardo, who also works with him at Coldwell Banker, and formerly worked […]
The Montecito Journal is pleased to announce the wedding of Jessikah Moran and Jacob Fechner. The couple was married in a private ceremony on Friday, December 16, by an officiant at the Santa Barbara Courthouse, where they read their wedding vows that they wrote for each other. The bride wore a long, white lace-over tulle […]
Eva Violet Van Prooyen and Kenneth Paul Kahn were married on Saturday, September 24, 2022, on the Santa Ynez Chumash Reservation. A double quartet serenade of strings surrounded the ceremony under the oaks on a historic Ortega property where the groom’s great “Tio Charlie” Ortega once lived. Officiated by the groom’s brother, Thomas Gomez, and […]
A planned equestrian fest went from bridle to bridal when Montecito real estate developer Xorin Balbes celebrated his New Year Mexico wedding to floral curator Truman Davies at the charming estate of Lily Hahn. The dashing duo, who live at the former Hot Springs Road home of Leslie Ridley-Tree, tied the knot in Tulum on […]
Our wedding was nothing that I expected and more than I could have hoped for: Jason and I were married in front of close family on a Wednesday, with a small reception on Saturday. And if I had to choose one moment to sum up the week, it was the time I snuck out of […]
Earlier this year, as the date of her May wedding was fast approaching and coronavirus cases were rapidly mounting, Anna Burrows did what any sensible bride to be would do: she postponed her nuptials until October. By summer, however, it became evident that a fall wedding would prove no more feasible than a spring one. […]
Sue Brooks has been selling ads for Montecito Journal for… gulp… more than 22 years. When she first joined us, she and her husband, Steve (remember Brooks Jewelers on Coast Village Road where the Sushi Bar is now, next to Montecito Inn?) had two little girls: Michelle and Jennifer. Well, those girls are all grown […]
It was clearly a mane event when Santa Barbara Zoo hosted its fifth annual Roar & Pour, a sell-out attracting 1,500 oenophiles and gourmands, raising around $100,000 for the popular menagerie. Some 300 of the party animals splashed out for VIP tickets, allowing them early entrance to the fun fête, avoiding the crowds and giving […]
It was quite the wedding at the Montecito Inn when prolific author Carl Boggs tied the knot with Laurie Nalepa, a dean at Los Angeles Valley College, in a ceremony presided over by Ford Roosevelt, grandson of FDR. Carl, who has written 23 books, spent much of his childhood in our rarefied enclave, just a […]
And I don’t mean just for Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan Markle. Having covered the British Royal Family for more than four decades, I was deluged with interview requests on TV and radio nationwide to bring my 40 years of expertise to the forum. The local ABC affiliate, KEYT-TV, had presciently booked me […]
It is no secret that most women dream of the day they can walk arm and arm with Daddy down the flower-littered aisle while wearing a long white dress and veil while the organ serenades the bride-to-be in her, hopefully, once in a lifetime experience amid their closest friends and family. However, the cost of […]
More than 100 of Gloria and Peter Clark’s friends gathered at the University Club to celebrate their wedding, which took place a month before. As they said on the invitation, “Nobody Saw This One Coming!!” John J. Thyne III officiated with best man Barry DeVorzon and two matrons of honor, Jelinda DeVorzon and Nina Terzian. […]
