An Ebell of Los Angeles Wedding: Katie and Blake's Old Hollywood Evening
A real evening wedding at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles: a ketubah signed in the club rooms, a chuppah drowning in pink roses, and night portraits under the Wilshire Ebell neon.
The Ebell of Los Angeles is nearly a century of Hollywood history in one Italianate clubhouse: wood-paneled salons, a colonnaded courtyard, and a grand hall built for exactly the kind of evening Katie and Blake planned. Their February wedding ran glamorous from the first frame, an old-Hollywood palette of blush, gold, and deep pink, photographed into the night.
They found us on WeddingWire seven months out and planned an evening celebration: ketubah signing at 5:20, an indoor ceremony under a chuppah built from roses, and a reception that did not open its doors until half past seven. Winter evening weddings are a photographer's playground, and this one used every hour of the dark.
Glamour in the Club Rooms
Katie got ready in the Ebell's antique salons, and her portrait in the window chair, beaded gown, lace train pooled across the carpet, pink and ivory bouquet, looks like it was made in 1935. Blake's prep ran black-tie with a white waistcoat, grinning through the collar adjustments.
The details set the palette early: a blush suede invitation suite with a wax seal, a crystal bracelet, and glitter platform heels. When the venue itself is this atmospheric, we photograph details on its marble and wood instead of styling boards, because the building is the styling.
The Ketubah and the Chuppah
The ketubah signing happened quietly in the club rooms before the ceremony, witnessed and photographed in black and white, one of the traditions we love most for the intimacy it builds ten minutes before the aisle. Then the grand hall: petals scattered down the walk, towers of pink and fuchsia roses on white columns, and a chuppah so heavy with garden roses it looked grown rather than built.
Katie and Blake said their vows under it hand in hand with their rabbi, and made the walk back up the petal aisle to a room already on its feet. Indoor evening ceremonies at the Ebell glow like candlelight in photographs, and we light them so gently that the room keeps its mood.
Under the Neon
After dark we stole ten minutes in the courtyard for the hero image of this story: the two of them beneath the glowing Wilshire Ebell Theatre sign, their monogram projected on the wall behind. It is one of our favorite night frames in central Los Angeles, and it only exists at this venue.
Inside, the reception carried the glamour through: a gold-crowned cake washed in magenta light, sequin bridesmaids, chandeliers, and a dance floor under the grand hall's coffered ceiling. Historic clubhouse venues reward couples who lean into the era, and Katie and Blake leaned all the way.
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