Ok team, hold on to your hats. This morning we've got a Paloma Cruz wedding, shot by Pablo Laguia, with a Wes Anderson inspired vibe. I know, I know, it really doesn't get much better than that does it?! Well actually it totally does, as we can claim this gorgeous pair as our own - Emily and Joseph are Brits, who chose this Spanish dream team to bring their wedding plans to life. And oh my goodness we're pleased they did. There aren't really any words to describe how epic this wedding is, so I'll let the photographs do the talking, along with the report from the leading lady herself, beautiful Bride Emily... Are you ready to reach Pampas Grass Heaven? I thought so.
I don’t really need to say anything do I? We knew immediately we wanted Pablo Laguia to capture our day, we booked him in the day his diary became available for 2018. Him and his beautiful wife Ana were fun, relaxed, just amazing. Both Joe (a photographer) and I work day to day on photo shoots so were certain we didn’t want traditional wedding photos – NO GROUP SHOTS! He captured the energy of the day perfectly. Also on his recommendation we hired David Rodriguez to video the day, it's a spectacle - his work is stunning. He too was an awesome guy, incredibly friendly and jovial. It’s so important to have the right people to capture the day, if you don’t feel totally comfortable it’ll read in the images.
I was played down the aisle by our friend Myles on the guitar, an acoustic version of ‘Wild Horses’ by the Stones. Our friend Joe officiated, he was BRILLIANT. There were 2 readings and my dear friend John (accompanied by Myles on the guitar) sang ‘Tender’ by Blur. We hid instruments under guests seats so they could join in. It was ace. We were played back down the aisle to Talking Heads ‘This must be the place.’ I was very specific throughout the planning on what vision I had, Paloma grasped it immediately and elevated it to a level I could have never imagined. The flowers were brought in from Amsterdam! My bouquet was so beautiful I made sure to order a ‘stunt bouquet’ for throwing later in the day, I kept my flowers next to our bed and pressed some of the flowers to frame. We had one long banquet table, and Joe and I entered the wedding breakfast with smoke cannons to William Onyeabor’s ‘Fantastic Man.’ I’m music obsessed and spent months perfecting play lists and selections for every part of the day. We’d booked the loveliest DJ, poor guy had absolutely no creative freedom all day! Our cake was brought to life by the fantastic Caperucita Cupcakes. I asked them to make a Ziggy Stardust cake with leopard print inside. We did a balloon release, we used bio-degradable balloons and string which meant a lot of them went pretty limp but it was beautiful nonetheless. Song: ‘What The World Needs Now’ by Burt Bacharach. Our first dance was ‘You & Me’ by Penny & The Quarters, we chose this because it’s a song we adore but it’s quite short, we didn’t want too much mushy romantic stuff. Then we played Chuck Berry’s ‘You Never Can Tell’ to get everyone going again. My matron of honour was black and blue all down her right thigh the next day from bashing a tambourine along to the music all night.
Overall we just wanted everyone to get hammered, dance, eat, laugh. There was patonque being played, icons masks, everyone used the table foliage to fashion headpieces, our mate even brought his tattoo gun and a few of us got inked! My niece spent most the day either taking peoples money to reserve Flamingo rides or plotting (and eventually succeeding) to push the best man in the pool. We got loads of pizzas delivered in the evening and shots of coffee patron were going round on trays. BRITS ABROAD.