Even as the weather cools, there’s nothing more romantic looking than a garden wedding. There’s really no one way to decorate a garden for a wedding — you can go as elaborate as this one, at the Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, with flower arrangements and rose petals lining the aisle, plus hanging bowls of flowers along the sides. Most of the attention was paid to the aisle decorations, and the square-shaped arch is pretty simple.

Usually the decorations center on where the couple where stand, since that’s where everyone will be focused on. And not much is needed to do that in a venue like the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel — two relatively simple, though large, arrangements with some height is enough to frame the couple.

This next photo is of an archway that I’ve come to think of as a secret garden wedding. The way the lavender roses were wired onto this trellis look so natural, it looks like it could have been found in a secret corner of a somewhat wildly overgrown English garden.

This wedding took place at the popular La Venta Inn in the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The morning fog lent a kind of ethereal quality to the wedding. Even though it was probably somewhat chilly, I hope the wedding took place before the fog burned off. It would’ve made some genuinely beautiful photos. Usually, photographers have to frost photos in Photoshop to get this kind of quality.