This cross-town rivalry couple fell in love over a deadly combination: s’mores and hockey. At an event at Union Cattle Ranch for the South Bay group at Deloitte & Touche, where both had just snagged full time jobs in 2006, Masha (a UCLA grad) ordered s’mores with friends and happened to have an extra. She noticed Dustin (a USC grad) eyeing it hungrily, and, having spotted him a year earlier at a broom ball game for Deloitte interns and thinking he was cute at the time, invited him to have it.

Dustin, in the midst of a boring conversation, quickly accepted this offer from, in his words, a “gorgeous girl.” In spite of attending rival universities, the two discovered a mutual love for hockey and the night ended with numbers exchanged. Dustin asked Maya to an LA Kings game next week, and the rest is history.

The two married at La Venta Inn  in Palos Verdes this July. “It has the view of South Bay which is where we fell in love–that’s the significance of it,” Masha said.

Masha designed the details for most of her wedding, we baked a colorful cupcake tower of their favorite flavors and Dave and Sandy of Dave Richards Photography captured these stunning images below!

Masha and Dustin decided on a Hawaiian-feel for their flowers, and the girls from Mulberry Row worked with Maya’s budget to put together these beautiful combinations!

Maya and her mom designed all of the menus, placecards and stationery themselves!

Maya and Dustin chose purple and white as their colors to represent their birthstones (hers is pearl and his is amethyst). They used green as an accent to make the deep purple pop!

Dustin and Masha chose their favorite flavor, red velvet, for their cake topper. They filled the rest of the cupcake tower with peanut butter and jelly for the kids, chocolate blackout cake with salted caramel ganache in the middle and espresso frosting,  and strawberry cheesecake. Masha chose macarons to as topper for the bottom layer after browsing one of our lookbooks!

Masha describes her most stunning moments of the wedding as “the look on Dustin’s face when he walked down the aisle,” a slideshow put together by Dustin’s brother and played outside against this landscape, a poem written and read in Russian by Masha’s grandmothers, and a re-write of Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” by Dustin’s brother.

“It was one of the funniest things,” Masha laughs. “It was one of my standout moments. It was a really, really amazing day.”

Credits:

Photography: Dave Richards Photography

Flowers: Mulberry Row

Hair and Make-up: Beach Bridal Beauty 

Venue: La Venta Inn 

Invitations and Dessert Tags: Herself