Puerto Vallarta - an intimate wedding

Every time I am hired to photograph a destination wedding, I get extremely excited. There's nothing better than traveling to wonderful places for work. The love birds Bentia and Charles were from San Francisco. Sweethearts since high school, and co-owners of a famous restaurant Santung on Irving, they chose to have a intimate wedding in Puerto Vallarta simply because they fell in love with it.

The wedding was held in a secluded private beach of La Caletas. Accessible only by boat from the city's marina, it was once the home of a famous Hollywood director John Huston who made Puerto Vallarta famous with his oscar winning film "The Night of the Iguana" in 1963 with actors Richard Burton and Ava Gardner.

The ceremony began just before sunset, followed by an island buffet style dinner under thousands of candle lights and torch flames. There was no electricity in this remote beach! Behind it is a trail to the jungle where boars, ocelots, boas, and jaguars might be lurking in the dark. I felt like I am in "Survivors".

Here's a quote from John Huston of why he chose to live there, "I'm following a piece of old Irish advice in going to live by the sea: 'It stops old wounds from hurting. It revives the spirit. It quickens the passions of mind and body, yet lends tranquility to the soul."