Unsurprisingly, the couple were equally intentional when it came to wedding planning, deciding upon Alana’s father’s home in L.A. as their venue, and choosing October 18—Ross’s parents’ wedding anniversary—as the date. “We wanted to do it somewhere that meant something to us, so my dad’s house was a natural thought,” Alana explains. “Then we were trying to figure out what time of year we wanted to get married, and I just think that fall in L.A. is a beautiful time.”

Then came the dinner, served along tables decorated with moss and hydrangeas by Melissa Andre Design Co (in keeping with the woodland theme), which featured a Persian salad to start, followed by a choice of grilled branzino, hanger steak, and eggplant parmigiana as the mains, and the couple’s half-and-half chocolate and lemon meringue wedding cake for dessert.