No matter how small or big, simple or grandiose, reserved or lavish a wedding is, I always feel that rush, excitement and happiness when I capture those precious moments. The wedding of Paul and Christina is indeed exhilarating and just mind blowing. Though some of you may have already known the whole scoop through Style Network’s show, “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?“, here is a little overview for the others.
Christina is a wedding planner and has been with Paul for 7 years. Paul planned a surprise wedding, oooops, yes you are reading it right! Surprise wedding for a wedding planner bride to be (sounds like an ingredient for a disaster ?
). He haven’t even proposed yet but had already planned for their wedding. To make this plan work he got in touch with the fab and amazing celebrity wedding planner Ana Cruz of Ana Cruz Event Planning. Luckily, Ana Cruz is not only their wedding planner but also a good friend of Christina and Paul, so at least they have some things to start with since Ana already have some overview of what Christina wants for her wedding.
To really paint the picture more clearly, Paul wants to propose to Christina and get married the day after! that is the big game plan. Now imagine a wedding planner, not being able to plan for her own wedding and on top of that, from proposal to wedding day is not even a week time!
Another spice on this already hot event is that Style Network had chosen this wedding to be featured on TV. So to give more twist to all these happenings, they set up Christina to be on a fake reality tv show supposedly for event planners and that she would have a chance to win big cash! She had to supposedly compete with other planners in different challenges. All this time Paul told his parents as well as to Christina’s parents about his intention of proposing to her as if that was not overwhelming enough to take in for the family, he also told them about the plan of marrying her the next day and all the plans had to be kept secret.
So Christina had to go to different challenges and she got frustrated at first for not winning and at the end and last challenge Paul revealed to her that all of it was fake and was just a set up. Right there and then he also proposed to her and of course she said yes!! and he told her that the wedding would be the following day! Now you should watch for the re-run of the show as you could really see her confused and overwhelmed reaction. She went to see her gown which Paul and Ana had already preselected and amazingly it was a perfect match for her! Ana and Paul had already things ironed out for the most part and it was just a matter of Christina liking it or not but she won’t know until the wedding day itself.
During the wedding day, it was a nice cloudy afternoon and just perfect for an outdoor wedding. The venue was at the beautiful Grove Isle Hotel and Spa and I loved the set up with the view fronting the water, the bride had been wanting ever since that she would get married there but as 0f the moment she did not know and only thought she was having her bridal preparation there. As I went in the bride’s room to capture some moments, you could feel the mixed anxiety and excitement. All the family, bridesmaids, and everyone were just ecstatic and enjoyed the roller coaster ride that this wedding was up into.
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and Paul with his crew
he does look so excited on this one!
and just before Christina walked down the aisle I was able to capture this beautiful shot of her
Christina’s dad as he hands her to Paul with a “You better take very good care of her” look
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and the KISS KISS KISS!!
and on to reception for the first dance
and its party time!!
and this event was beautifully orchestrated by Ana Cruz cheers Ana!
better shot on this one
for the tasteful Lighting set up, plasma screens (where I was able to show the photos immediately on the reception) and cool DJs from The Party Pros with the head honcho Sean McCourt
gorgeous flower arrangement from Petals Panache by Bobby Kyser
Bobby and his crew
Photography by: Yours truly hahaha just having a little chat with camera guy from Style Network lol.
and want to thank my buddy Gil Purcil for helping me out on this shoot.
and a behind the scene shoot of the crew from Style Network with Ana Cruz
cheers!
- Jeruel Garado
786.413.7216
jeruel@jeruelphotography.com
Jeruel Photography, Wedding Photographer Miami,
. Alot of things have happened, some very exciting and some not so.
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