Our wedding ceremony will be held at the Hakone Gardens in Saratoga. There will be more than enough parking for all our guests, but keep in mind that the parking will start being used by the public at the end of the ceremony.
The dress code for our wedding is semi-formal/cocktail attire. Ladies should wear cocktail dresses, and the gentlemen should wear a suit and tie or a sports coat.
The ceremony will be held outdoors in the garden area. The ceremony will only last an hour, but guests may want to consider bringing sunscreen and consider wearing comfortable shoes.
To keep our guests safe, we will place chairs 6 feet apart and ask guests to wear face masks. We will have hand sanitizer available and will provide masks. We are also limiting the guest capacity to 20 people, and all invitees will be local, with the exception of few immediate family.
After overcoming some technical hurdles, we are happily able to announce that we will be providing a livestream viewing of our ceremony for our remote guests! If you received the email to join our live stream, we will post a link to the Youtube livestream on this site on the day of our wedding, if not the day before. We hope to see you join us online!
The ceremony will start at 10 am PDT -- please arrive 15 minutes early to get situated. You are also free to come even earlier to walk around and explore the garden scenery. The ceremony will end at 11 am, which is when the Garden opens to the public. We hope to take a few pictures with our guests after the ceremony ends!
We will be having an unplugged ceremony. We want you to be able to really enjoy our wedding day, feeling truly present and in the moment with us. We're respectfully asking that everyone consider leaving all cameras and cell phones off. Of course we will be happy to share our wedding photos taken by our amazing photographer with you afterward!
While we are disappointed that we won't have a typical wedding celebration with all of our friends and family, we are hoping to have a formal reception in the future. We do not have any plans yet, but if you have any ideas for a future reception, please reach out to us and we'd like to hear from you!
We do not expect our guests to bring us gifts. However, we do have a registry available on this site that you may check out if you feel compelled to buy us a gift. We appreciate your generosity!
Please reach out to us at lisajacobsywedding@gmail.com. We will give you shipping information and any other details you may need. Thank you for your generosity and support!