Meredith, a lawyer from New York, and Alex, a regulation pupil from Maryland, met as college students at Georgetown College, whereas the pair had been working within the research overseas workplace. Sparks flew instantly, and the pair shared a primary date on the now-defunct Café Bonaparte (Lutèce is there now) in Georgetown. “We nonetheless bear in mind precisely the place we sat and what we ordered,” says Meredith. “Over time, we’ve got come again to Café Bonaparte and Lutèce to relive our first date—an evening neither of us wished to ever finish.” Seven years later, Alex proposed in a waterfront park at sundown whereas the pair had been vacationing in Charleston.
For his or her intimate November marriage ceremony, the couple wished a romantic, elegant, and basic vibe, achieved with the mix of candles and the room’s uncovered brick. The colour palette included lavender, burgundy, mauve, and white. Meredith’s favourite half was strolling down the aisle along with her mother and skipping the primary look in order that she and Alex may see one another for the primary time when the chapel doorways opened. “I’ll always remember the second our eyes locked as I walked down the aisle,” she says. Alex’s favourite half was the packed dance flooring, which he says family and friends hardly took a break from due to the band. One other spotlight: sipping signature drinks, consuming cocktail hour hors d’oeuvres, and recapping their mornings for a couple of minutes alone collectively within the lodge’s Chimney Stack room earlier than the cocktail hour formally began. On the reception, Alex’s school a cappella group—the Georgetown Chimes—carried out for visitors, after which Alex serenaded the bride with the music “So A lot in Love” by The Varieties.
Se the main points from their marriage ceremony day under.
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Amy leads Washingtonian Weddings and writes Model Setters for Washingtonian. Previous to becoming a member of Washingtonian in March 2016, she was the editor of Capitol File journal in DC and earlier than that, editor of What’s Up? Weddings in Annapolis.
