Newlyweds Hope Wilson and Dave Cronkhite recently tied the knot at one of San Diego's most revered churches, Founder's Chapel on the University of San Diego campus. In 1954 the chapel was completed and the altar was consecrated. The beautiful chapel features a white Botticino marble altar and matching altar rail from Italy, gold leaf on the ornamental wall – the reredos – behind the altar, 14 stained-glass nave windows and a rose-white Tennessee marble floor. It is quite breathtaking, and it conveys an strong sense of religious sanctity.
My clients asked me to shoot a combination of spontaneous and traditional styles. And since Hope had majored in cinematography, she asked me to shoot with film cameras instead of digital. It was fortunate that I still had some film cameras so it wasn't much of a problem. Afterwards however I spent a lot of time and money having the negatives scanned so that I could create the magazine style album the couple wanted. I also found that scanning the negatives exaggerated the film grain, which I found unattractive. Although I only crossed over to digital two years ago, I am now quite enamored with it.
After a moving ceremony and full mass, the couple jumped into Hope's dad's restored 1965 Mustang and drove to Estancia La Jolla, for their cocktail reception and dinner. The Estancia is a new ranch-style hotel just west of UCSD on Torrey Pines Road. It's high-end and stylish in a western dude-ranch kind of way. I think the hotel's designers knew that the Blackhorse stables had originally occupied the land that the hotel was built upon.
After a delicious dinner the band The Pelicans entertained everyone. Coordinator Kristin Garuba from Pink Papaya did a fabulous job of organizing, almost invisibly behind-the-scenes. Kristin can be reached at (858) 842-1202. For information regarding weddings at Founder's Chapel please contact Darlene Polak at (619)260-2229 or mpolak@sandiego.edu. For information regarding having a wedding at Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa please call (858) 550-1000
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