Real Wedding pt 2: Araceli and Andrew

To follow up on yesterdays ceremony and first look by Andrew and Araceli (here) I wanted to share their super fun cocktail hour and reception. For cocktails we brought in a wonderful Mariachi band to seranade guests while they enjoyed the bar and passed aps. Dinner was in the pavillion with large centerpeices of babies breath balls and pops of bright green runners. Guests enjoyed Timmie Metz (who I ALWAYS recomend!)  on guitar all night and dined on Airlies delicious food. Enjoy!

Guests found their seats off of magnetic frames with cards held up dainty magnets.  

Table numbers were written in Spanish to keep with the Mexican heritage theme running through the night.

 

Real Wedding: Araceli and Andrew

These two were so much fun to work with and they are a shining example of how much I bond with clients during their wedding process. I have made sure to stay true to keeping in touch and I am so excited that they have just bought their first DC area home! Araceli and Andrew came to me shortly after moving to the DC area from California and wanted to host a small intimate wedding for their closest friends and family. They knew nothing of the area and had a limited budget to work with, so I agreed to help them stretch it as far as we could.

After a bunch of venue options we settled on hosting the entire weekend at the Airlie Center from the rehearsal dinner and welcome cocktails to the post wedding brunch. We wanted to infuse Araceli’s Mexican heritage into the wedding so we order special paper picado flags, and had mexican wedding cookies for guests to take home.  We also made sure to have a grooms cake with Andrew’s love of zombies. I want to share their beautiful getting ready and ceremony photos today. We create babies breath bouquets for the ladies and Araceli wore a gorgeous dress from Betsy Robinson Bridal and to die for shoes by Valentino. Enjoy!

Their guest book was so fun! They collected photos of everyone from the wedding and we strung them up. Guest then found their photo and added to a page that had a special layout to which they could write in notes and leave funny quotes.