Friday, November 30, 2007

Monday, November 26, 2007

Debora and Prageeth

I don't really know where to begin with this wedding. First, it was my first time to Lexington, KY. I loved all of the Kentucky Derby hats! This store is in the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Lexington. The Creator of these hats is Anne Sawyer (866.478.4287), she provides many of the hats you see at the Kentucky Derby. In fact they did an interview with her last year on one of the morning shows with Al Roker. If you're looking for a unique Derby hat you should check out her shop! ...So this is where I started while I was waiting for Debora to come down to the lobby....




I didn't have the pleasure of meeting Debora and Prageeth before their wedding...so when she walked into the lobby I was stunned! She looked amazing! Not only did she look amazing but she really is a fantastic person on the inside too. Even though her outside ceremony had to be moved to inside the tent due to rain she was still all smiles the whole day.
















Debora's family is from Argentina, and they have some very fun and unique traditions. First is the cake pull. There is a string in this cake for each single girl. They all grab on and pull their strings at the same time. The girl who pulls out the one with a wedding ring charm on it is the next to get married. It was so much fun. There were other charms that represented all sorts of things like money, success, health...things like that.





Here was another surprise, Debora and Prageeth are professional ballroom dancers. Their first dance was a work of art! I can't possibly put into words how beautiful their dance was. It was probably one of the sexiest first dances I've ever seen!





Another tradition is to give each of the single girls a garter off of Debora. She had 30 garters on her leg, and the way it works is Prageeth removes a garter from Debora and places it on each single lady there! It was soooooo much fun. They played really fast music to make it really festive. I love that they really take care of the single ladies in Argentina (they tossed the bouquet too).



I had so much fun at this wedding, I am truly so happy for Debora and Prageeth and I wish them all the love and luck in the world!