A very Astoria wedding
THE HEATHER RUPP & MIKE ANGILETTA WEDDING
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STORY BY DWIGHT CASWELL • PHOTOS BY JUSTIN KOEPPEN
alf our guests would be
from out of town,” Heather
Angiletta (née Rupp) told me,
“We wanted our wedding to be
very Astoria,” so people could see
the town we’d fallen in love with
and where we wanted to start our
life together.”
Heather and her fiancé, Mike, moved to Astoria from
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San Francisco in 2014. “It is so beautiful,” she says, “and the
people are cool.” They originally planned to have their “very
Astoria” wedding at the column—what could be more
Astoria? —but the column renovation sidetracked their plans.
The couple began, Heather says, “pounding the
pavement, walking around, talking to people. It was a fun
way to meet people and explore the town.” Eventually
they, “literally stumbled on this unknown banquet room at
Pier 39. We got nosy, asking who was in control of it. It
was exactly what we wanted.”
The room at this waterfront location was right out of
Astoria’s fishing past. Heather says, “It was a really neat
space, and I knew we could use that look.” It needed
work, though, to be a location for a wedding reception.
For that Heather and Mike turned to Evie Larson and
Jessica Newhall at Eventscape, LLC, who manage the
Red Building as well as creating appropriate ambience in
other spaces. >>