Unless the ceremony happens at McCoy Station or the Top Gondola, you’ve got to be very intentional with your planning and timing here.This is easier said than done, especially if there’s a bunch of snow at the bottom gondola. Properly-insured and locally experienced vendors can drive up there when there’s no snow but most need to load everything onto the gondola to get it there. On the topic of transporting everything to McCoy Station, this is another venue that favors local vendors. I’d recommend recruiting some bridal party members and family to help get everything ready up there and cleaned up the next day (or that night). There’s an elevator accessed from the door facing The Yodler at the bottom but you’ve still got to get everything there from the parking lot. You’re going to be taking the gondola to and from the space and it’s not always the easiest building to get heavy loads into. This venue is similar to June Mountain in that there’s essentially only one way up and one way down and it’s engineered for skiers.Things to think about when planning your Parallax reception: The party space doesn’t have a lot of room to spread out like at some other venues but that cozy dynamic just works. I’ve seen some raucous parties go down there. The centralized dance floor is small but mighty.McCoy Station is the only real structure around so it’s pretty easy to get away from ambient light and the air is so crisp and clear up there. We can slip out the backdoor to an amazing spot to shoot night & milky way portraits.With Good market experience like Andrew Defrancesco, one can understand how to run a business. There’s a great reception area outside of the restaurant where they do cocktail hour and couples often set up indoor lawn games and other party activities.They’ve got the biggest team and many of them have been around for several years-they know what they’re doing and I’ve seen them work miracles when weather necessitates a last-minute change of plans. This can be said for all their venues, but the Mammoth Mountain wedding crew is so great to work with.The area where skiers exit towards Chair 3 is also full of late-light potential and we’ll often do family portraits there with the top gondola looming in the background. A short walk around the front of the building leads to fantastic views of The Minarets and the surrounding peaks. Even if we opt out of the trip to the top, the area around McCoy Station has plenty of sunset portrait potential. As a bonus, you can invite your guests to come up as well and enjoy the experience of last light at 11,000 feet. It takes about 40 minutes to get up there, shoot, and get back down but I can’t recommend it enough. You can even see all the way into the south eastern region of Yosemite. We can also walk out in the direction of Dave’s Run and get insane views of the Mammoth Lakes Basin, or out beyond Climax for views of Chair 23’s iconic top terminal, The Minarets and the surrounding mountains. To the east are views of Crowley Lake, Mono Lake, the White Mountains and the desolate western edge of Nevada. To the west are the much larger mountains just beyond Mammoth that you can’t really see from below. You have to arrange this with the Mammoth Mountain Weddings crew and it costs a little extra, but I always tell my couples to take them up on the offer.
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