Destination Wedding Guide: Napa Valley and Sonoma, California

California wine country's Napa Valley and Sonoma have all the ingredients for a destination wedding: sophisticated lodges, world-class restaurants, glorious scenery, and spot-on weather. And because wedding fantasies are, of course, stress-free, the best way to make them come true is to choose a resort that can host the entire shebang, welcome cocktails to day-after brunch. Here are five great resorts—already on Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice radar—that you, and your guests, will remember happily ever after.

MEADOWOOD NAPA VALLEY

Napa, California

Shaded by towering redwood groves, this 250-acre resort is part foodie mecca, part country club, and one of Napa’s top wedding spots (a heavily bearded Robin Williams married here in 2011).

Where is it? Though sheltered in a quiet valley, you’re only five minutes from the galleries and chocolate shops of downtown St. Helena; avoid the weekend traffic and it’s a 90-minute drive from the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Meet the staff: Meadowood’s wedding specialist, Lauren Bates, works closely with director of catering Jennifer Pike, who’s masterminded something like 500 weddings here over the past ten years.

The looks department: Emerald-green lawns, azalea gardens, and majestic fir trees—this is northern California at its most luscious. 

http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2012/03/destination-wedding-planner-napa-sonoma-california?mbid=nl_daily_traveler#slide=1BySALLY KILBRIDGE