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Golf, Tiki Bars, and a Palm Springs Wedding

·Palm Springs, California, United States·#travel#california#palm-springs#wedding#golf
Two people making hand gestures at a white-clothed restaurant table with other people and a red abstract painting in the background.

Down to Palm Springs for a wedding, which in practice meant a whole weekend of everything else too.

The first night was dinner with the group — big round tables, thumbs up all around — and then tiki bars, plural. One had a lava-rock wall and a giant clamshell fountain; the other had a sailfish mounted over the bar, which we posed with as though we had caught it.

Golf got squeezed in as well, out on a course with a pond off the tee and the San Jacinto mountains stacked up behind everything. Three of us in trucker hats trying to look like we belonged.

The wedding itself was in a garden — long wooden tables on the grass, string lights through the olive trees, red cups appearing as the evening went on. By dark it was all arms around shoulders and cans of beer, the mountains gone black behind the lights.

Two smiling people take a selfie with a textured wall decorated with shells and a white flower in the background.Two people embrace in a dimly lit room with a mounted fish on the wall and a potted plant.An evening outdoor party with many people in a garden setting, illuminated by string lights and featuring trees and palm trees.Three people laugh while holding red cups outdoors with trees and mountains in the background.Six people, three men and three women, stand closely together outdoors at night with string lights in the background.Three smiling people in golf attire stand on a golf course, one holding a golf club, with mountains behind them.A person in a golf swing on a tee box with a pond, green course, and mountains under a clear sky.An outdoor gathering with people mingling on a grassy lawn with tables set, mountains, and trees in the background.

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