{"id":3772,"date":"2011-07-14T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2012-12-30T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T23:01:49","slug":"stanford-memorial-church-palo-alto-madera-restaurant-reception-menlo-park-karen-erik-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/14\/stanford-memorial-church-palo-alto-madera-restaurant-reception-menlo-park-karen-erik-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Memorial Church Palo Alto &#8211; Madera Restaurant Reception Menlo Park &#8211; Karen &#038; Erik Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Karen and Erik exchanged their vows during a late morning\u00c2\u00a0intimate ceremony the Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto on the Stanford campus. While the church interior is quite large with seating for many hundreds of guests, if you have a limited number of guests attending the ceremony, all of them can be seated on chancel just below the alter. After the wedding and photos around campus Karen and Erik went to the Madera Restaurant not far away in Menlo Park to enjoy lunch with their family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3773\" title=\"Stanford Memorial Church-wide angle view of wedding ceremony showing stained glass windows\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-01.jpg\" alt=\"Interior view of Stanford Memorial Church\" width=\"550\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-01.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-01-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3774\" title=\"Stanford Memorial Church Palo Alto Exterior View of archway and stained glass windows\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-02.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford Church\" width=\"838\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-02.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3775\" title=\"Bride's pearl earring photo taken while she prepares for wedding\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-03.jpg\" alt=\"Bride's earring\" width=\"838\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-03.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-03-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3776\" title=\"Stanford Memorial Church - gifts for the guest attending the ceremony on the chancel\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-04.jpg\" alt=\"Guest gifts on chairs\" width=\"838\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-04.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-04-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3777\" title=\"Stanford Memorial Church Palo Alto - lighting the candles on the alter\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-05.jpg\" alt=\"The candles are lit\" width=\"838\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-05.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-05-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3778\" title=\"Stanford Memorial Church which has 4 organs including the Fisk-Nanney that has almost 4500 pipes\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-06.jpg\" alt=\"Organist plays during the wedding ceremony at Stanford Memorial Church\" width=\"838\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-06.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-06-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3779\" title=\"Stanford water fountain splashes as the bride and groom pose in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-07.jpg\" alt=\"Water fountain Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA\" width=\"838\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-07.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-07-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3780\" title=\"Bouquet of red and orange flowers at the Madera Restaurant in Menlo Park, CA\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-08.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at the Madera Restaurant\" width=\"838\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-08.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-08-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3781\" title=\"Wine is poured for the wedding reception guests at the Madera Restaurant in Menlo Park, California\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-09.jpg\" alt=\"Wine for the the guests\" width=\"564\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-09.jpg 564w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-09-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3782\" title=\"Just married couple in holding hands as they walk through the Stanford University campus\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-10.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo with bride and groom holding hands\" width=\"838\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-10.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Stanford-Memorial-Church-10-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen and Erik exchanged their vows during a late morning\u00c2\u00a0intimate ceremony the Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto on the Stanford campus. While the church interior is quite large with seating for many hundreds of guests, if you have a limited number of guests attending the ceremony, all of them can be seated on chancel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,781,792,779,780,693,1849,699,64,694,1686,1685,2327,71,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}