Natalie and Clay met in high school. Natalie had transferred schools two years earlier but returned to watch her former class graduate at Sonoma Academy. When Clay stepped up to accept his diploma, she nudged her friend and whispered, “Wait…how have you never introduced me to HIM?!” Two weeks after their first date on Lake Sonoma, at Clay’s family home in Tahoe, they exchanged those three words: “I love you.” They moved each other into their college dorms - Clay in San Francisco, Natalie in Savannah - and navigated long distance for two and a half beautiful years. But long distance is hard, and they were too young to know how to make it last. They parted ways. Life continued, but neither truly let the other go. For the next ten years, they thought about each other - always with a sense of something unfinished. A wistful, bittersweet affection for their time together. They had time to grow…and time to figure out what they didn’t want…which, it turns out, was anyone else but each other. In February 2023, Clay sent Natalie a message: “Hey, how’ve you been?” Less than a month later, she had packed a suitcase and moved into his apartment in Reno. On March 28th 2024, Clay proposed at Vichy Springs, a place full of memories from their earliest days. The very next day, the doors of Truett Hurst Winery reopened, and together they began rebuilding the family legacy, side by side. And on December 4th 2024, they were married at San Francisco City Hall - just the two of them and their photographer (you’ll see the photos on this website!) because they simply couldn’t wait. Now, they’re throwing the celebration their younger selves could only dream of, and they can’t wait to share it with the people who’ve meant the most along the way.