Some weddings feel like a big celebration. Rachel and David's felt like coming home. Tucked into the San Juan Mountains at Dunton Hot Springs, their intimate ceremony brought together 45 of their closest people for a weekend of campfires, hot springs, and the kind of love that fills up a whole valley.
Rachel got ready in one of Dunton's restored log cabins while David wrote his vows on the front porch of theirs — they could almost hear each other through the trees. The first look happened on a wooden bridge over the West Fork of the Dolores River, and I don't think either of them stopped smiling for the rest of the day.
The ceremony was held in an open meadow with the peaks as their backdrop. No microphones, no programs — just handwritten vows that had every single guest reaching for tissues. David's voice cracked three words in, and Rachel's mom was done for after the first sentence.
