After shooting this wedding, there is no doubt that destination weddings are our favorite. This wedding was amazing for so many reasons. We love love love Isabel & Eli. St. Thomas wasn't too shabby either.
Their Story, by Isabel:
"Eli and I met at work my second year of college. It might not have been your classic “I-spotted-him-across-the-room-and-just-knew” love story, but when he still liked me after watching me model our store's winter outerwear for men (toboggan hat included), I knew I had someone special. We had so much fun together, and I remember thinking one evening, as we shared Chinese food and a game of Uno, that I had found the man I wanted to marry. By the end of that year, though, we realized our lives were leading in different directions, so we ended our relationship. But it was one of those loves that never really goes away – the kind where you always wonder, 'what if?'
When our paths crossed again three years later, we both realized that we were, in the end, better together. We picked up right where we left off, and in March of 2010, Eli proposed.
We decided to get married in the Virgin Islands with just our immediate families present. Eli had always wanted a beach wedding, and St. Thomas was beautiful and easily accessible. It also allowed us to focus on the parts of the day that were most important to us. Our wedding day was absolutely perfect – from the weather to the steel pan drummer to the phenomenal photographs – and we were so happy to get to share it with the people we love.
Back when we were dating in college, my favorite story to tell was that on our first date, the fortune under the cap of my Jones Soda read, “Your love life will be happy and harmonious.” I had no idea then just how happy it would be. I also had no idea that there would be iguanas at my wedding, but in the end, everything – from the reptiles to my husband – was so much more than I ever could have imagined."
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