A Napa wedding, July 27, 2019
Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens were married on July 27, 2019, in Napa Valley. The ceremony was held at Saint Helena Catholic Church in St. Helena, California. Afterward, guests made their way to Harvest Inn for an outdoor reception looking out on the surrounding hills.
The day later appeared in California Wedding Day, in a January 2, 2020, feature titled “Vineyard Vows: A Stunning Outdoor Wedding Reception at Harvest Inn in Napa Valley.” The magazine’s account remains the most detailed published description of the wedding, and the date is recorded on IMDb. For anyone searching for Philip Levens’s wife, or for Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens by her married name, this is the beginning of the story: a church in St. Helena, a reception among the vineyards, and a marriage that has now lasted into a new chapter in Florida.
The ceremony
Saint Helena Catholic Church sits in the town that gives the valley’s most famous wine region part of its name. It is a traditional setting for a wedding, and it was the setting Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens chose. California Wedding Day described the bride in a Marchesa gown and a one-of-a-kind veil with matching appliqués. The palette for the day was blush, cream, and red.
Those are the published details, and they are enough to see the shape of the morning: a formal Catholic ceremony, a carefully made dress, a color plan that carried from the church into the reception that followed.
An outdoor reception at Harvest Inn
Harvest Inn, in Napa Valley, was the site of the celebration. The reception was outdoors, with a “sea of circular tables” and a wide view of the hills, according to California Wedding Day. Guests were given bottles of Bulleit Bourbon and Woodhouse Chocolates as a thank-you from the couple, and the cake came from Flour and Bloom Cakes.
A highlight film by Amor In Motion Films was later embedded with the magazine feature. The couple’s own websites have also presented wedding video under the heading “Philip Levens & Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens Napa Wedding.” Photographer Apollo Fotografie published a gallery from the wedding weekend as well.
Taken together, the published images and the magazine recap describe a formal wedding that moved, as many Napa weddings do, from a church nave to an evening outside.
Two lives already in the arts
By the time of the wedding, both the bride and the groom had long public careers. Philip Levens, a television writer, producer, and showrunner from Lubbock, Texas, had already created Ascension and written and produced Smallville, South Beach, and Knight Rider. Carolyn Stotesbery, who took his name as Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens, had already appeared in Love & Mercy, Grey Lady, Agent X, and Castle, and had begun selling her own written work.
What followed
In the months after the wedding, Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens were hired to write Menace of Venice for Todd Garner’s Broken Road Productions, and they appeared together at the 2019 Austin Film Festival to talk about how they work as a team. Years later they left Los Angeles for Naples, Florida, a move they described in a 2026 Fox Business interview as a decision made, in part, on a phone call from the beach.
The wedding was the public start of that partnership. The facts are simple and worth stating plainly. On July 27, 2019, Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens were married at Saint Helena Catholic Church and celebrated at Harvest Inn. The pictures, the film, and the magazine feature are still there to be seen. The life they announced that day is the life they are still making.