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Engagement season is upon us and with that recently engaged San Diego couples will start to research possible wedding venues! Wedding photos: Glorietta Bay Inn + Coronado Community Center are two of my favorites! In this particular wedding the bride got ready at Glorietta Bay Inn while the groom got ready at a house on Imperial beach and the ceremony and reception was at Coronado Community Center. To see another wedding from Coronado Community Center click here. To another bride get ready at Glorietta Bay Inn, click here.

The Glorietta Bay Inn is a great place to take getting ready photos! The light at the entrance of the lobby is beautiful!!! It gets a little darker by the staircase so you have to adjust your settings properly or use flash. The staircase is beautiful though! Brides usually rent the garden suite. Plenty of props to work with for the bridal portraits and bridesmaid portraits.

The groom and his groomsmen got ready at a house on the beach at Imperial beach. They were a fun group! Super comfortable and fun in front of the camera! They all had so much love for each other, it made for some great photos!

It was a little overcast, but the wedding photos still came out beautifully! Coronado Community Center has a great outdoor area for the ceremony with the bay as the background! Then you walk a few steps for the cocktail hour and reception. Everything is very convenient.

The couple opted out of the first look trend and went with the traditional moment down the aisle! Which I love! Since the cocktail hour and reception was so close to it was easy to do their formal portraits down the way. We got very lucky with the cherry blossoms!

  Could not say more great things about shooting wedding photos at the Coronado Community Center! As I mentioned I love having diverse backgrounds for your shoots and this place did that and more! We also used the Blue Watergrill Boathouse tower, Coronado Beach, and of course the famous Hotel Del for the getting ready photos.

Coronado Island has such a fun vibe, you feel like you are on a permanent vacation. So it is a great area for your wedding venue. I will say this, do keep an eye out for traffic, there are only two ways in to Coronado, through the bridge and through Imperial Beach. It was a beautiful wedding and the bride and groom could not stop smiling!

Ceremony took place on the grassy area right outside the Coronado Community Center. The cocktail hour was steps away at the outdoor patio. The reception was right next door inside the ballroom. So rain or shine, you are covered 😉 It’s such a relief when everything is nearby. That allows for more photo time and strips away the worry of having to get to places on time.  We did some formal portraits out by the docks too before heading over to the Blue Watergrill Boathouse. The views from the top were amazing!!

The reception party was so much fun! Great music and dancing!! Their first dance was beautiful! Bride and groom were not shy at all to get their faces dirty when it was time to cut the wedding cake! Nothing says forever like cake in your face 😉

The sunset was beautiful as well and naturally we had to snap a few shots there too! Sunset always seals the deal 🙂 There was so much love and the groom was totally in to taking as many photos as his bride wanted. WINNING!!