When you step into these gardens in Walnut Creek, California you feel like you have stepped into another world. It is one of my favorite locations to visit and photograph year-round because there is always something in bloom and new places to treasure. Carlos and Ariana eloped the day before our portrait session and their big wedding was held the next year with friends and family, but they wanted to have some photographs of those first moments of marriage documented to live on their walls in their hearts forever. We played, danced, explored the garden, and had some laughs and tears. Find out more about the gardens here: Ruth Bancroft Gardens