Cupertino Wedding

Cupertino (IPA: [kuptino]) is a suburban city in Santa Clara County, California, USA, on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 50,546 at the 2000 census.

Notable natives and residents of Cupertino include Primus drummer Brian Mantia, actor Aaron Eckhart, and basketball player Kurt Rambis.

Cupertino in the 1800s was originally a small rural village at the crossroads of the Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road and Stevens Creek Road. Back then, it was known as the West Side and was part of the Fremont Township. The primary economical activity was fruit agriculture. Almost all of the land within Cupertino's present-day boundaries were covered by plum, apricot, and cherry orchards. A winery on Montebello Ridge overlooking the Cupertino valley region was also operating by the late 1800s.

Soon, railroads, electric railways, and dirt roads traversed the West Side farmlands. Monta Vista, Cupertino's first housing tract, was developed in the mid-1900s as a result of the electric railway's construction.