Margaret Manson and Jared Hanson met as so many creative Bay Area types do: at Philz Coffee.
Manson, a freelance copywriter, was doing the work-from-Philz thing that day; Hanson just happened to get a nail in his tire and was waiting on a repair nearby. And so began their first date: After chatting a bit at the cafe, he asked her out to lunch; they spent the next couple hours at a restaurant around the corner. Two years later, he proposed on their deck in the Berkeley hills post-New Year s Eve fireworks.
The couple wanted a wedding that would be authentic to themâno hotel ballrooms that would feel like a disconnect.