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Jamie Frausto and Dan Maguire said they dreamed of having their wedding in La Jolla for years before the ceremony. (Roman Podria)<\/p>\nJamie Frausto and Dan Maguire had long dreamed of living in La Jolla. When they got married in Ellen Browning Scripps Park this summer, it sealed the deal.<\/p>\n
Frausto and Maguire eloped in La Jolla on June 10, 2026 with a ceremony including just the bride and groom, and their photographer and officiant. Their ceremony came nine years after their first date. Based on their experience with the ceremony, the two have plans to move to La Jolla later this year.<\/p>\n
The pair, who currently live in Denver, Co., met when Maguire was working at a cocktail bar in nearby Boulder. Frausto, then working in the area for a tech startup, would often visit on Fridays.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would pull up her laptop at the bar and work at the bar sometimes,\u201d Maguire recalled. \u201cIt kind of sparked up a conversation, I started to get to know her and I asked her out on a whim.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two got engaged in 2024, and a year later Frausto got to searching for a location to get married. While Frausto and Maguire had spent their whole lives in Colorado, they both felt drawn to San Diego and specifically La Jolla.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always come to California for my birthday, which is really close to our anniversary,\u201d Frausto said. \u201cSo I told Dan, \u2018we\u2019re already engaged. We\u2019ve been talking about La Jolla. Let\u2019s bring it to life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Frausto and Dan Maguire said they dreamed of having their wedding in La Jolla for years before the ceremony. (Roman Podria)<\/p>\n
Their criteria was simple: no big wedding venue or party, a small setup and views of the ocean. So Frausto wandered around Scripps Park and La Jolla Cove, scouting the area out for wedding spots. With Maguire back in Colorado, she sent him photos and videos of where they could elope.<\/p>\n
While La Jolla had long been a target for the two of them to settle down, they also looked at a handful of \u201ccontenders,\u201d she said, including downtown San Diego and specifically, Little Italy. Ultimately choosing Scripps Park for their elopement, the two wed in the small ceremony they had planned.<\/p>\n
Just not as small as they thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we were in the park, the crowd of locals started gathering around,\u201d Maguire said. \u201cWe had people yelling out of cars saying \u2018you guys look great.\u2019 It really reinforced that feeling of community we picked up while we were there. People were there, they don\u2019t know us but they supported us. It\u2019s really warm and welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n
That experience confirmed that La Jolla was the place for them. \u201cThe wedding was when we were like \u2018people who live here are so blessed and so lucky,\u2019\u201d Frausto said. \u201cI want that and we want that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair plan to move to La Jolla late this year and hope to soon develop strong camaraderie with their neighbors and the local art community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Frausto and Dan Maguire had long dreamed of living in La Jolla. When they got married in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,930,5184,14136,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-414947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-la-jolla","tag-la-jolla-light","tag-la-jolla-light-things-to-do","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}