Regla and Ahmed’s love story is the thing that movies are made of: Regla lives in Mexico and Ahmed lives in Cuba, and they’re both pursuing careers in music. Bonded by their love for music (and each other!), the couple has plans to live in Mexico together soon. But until then, they decided to embrace their love for the unique sights and sounds of Cuba with a gorgeous engagement shoot around the city captured by Sweetpapermedia. We love getting a peek into Cuba’s truly remarkable culture through these photos and illustrations documenting the couple’s love.
Ahmed and Regla remind me of Chico and Rita, a movie about two cuban musician who were bonded together by love and music. Backdropped by the nostalgic city of Havana, Chico and Rita’s story revolves around music, romantic desires and journey. They fell in love, got separated by fame and political unrest and Six decades later, he found Rita in Vegas and learned that she has been waiting for him for 47 years.
Ahmed and Regla’s story is comparable, both musicians, bonded together by love for music and… love itself. They currently live in a long distance relationship, with Regla in Mexico pursuing a music career while Ahmed stays in Havana following the same career path as her. Ahmed is working on moving to Mexico to be with his love and hopefully… it’s soon.
Their story is a good reminder of how love defies limits, it defies borders and that love is not measured by distance but by faith.
Their love is like a song that you can hear across oceans, its their connection, its what bonded them before and it will be their bond forever. Love is a music you never forget.
Congratulations to Regla and Ahmed on your engagement, and a special thanks to Junebug member Sweetpapermedia for sharing their wonderful engagement photos with us. Love this couple’s urban engagement shoot? Take a look at this urban adventurous Orlando sweetheart session!
Chloe and Sherrick’s Arizona ranch wedding was a beautifully executed event that combined the couple’s love for sophisticated fashion with the comfort of their family’s ranch! The couple lives in Los Angeles, so when they decided to have their wedding on a rural Arizona ranch, they reached out to the masterminds of BTS Event Management to help organize and style the wedding of their dreams. Chloe and Sherrick’s wedding blended modern details like ghost chairs, fuchsia accents, and hip hop music during dinner with the more rustic vibes that the ranch provided. We can’t get enough of the emotional moments that photographer Matt Lien captured of the couple’s day, including their golden hour couple portraits taken at the top of a secret vista overlooking the ranch.
The Couple:
Chloe and Sherrick
The Wedding:
Private Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
The most important thing in planning our wedding was the details! All the small things always amount to something bigger and a wedding is no different. I wanted the details to resonate with our guests and bring to life the vision I had thought about every night.
The best part of our photographer Matt Lien was the ability to capture everything and be present for every moment. One of those moments he impossibly captured was my dad, caretaker of the ranch, taking one last look from the front porch out at the ceremony venue and pastures beyond. After furiously getting all the final things in order that morning, after months of hard work and sweat, including laying grass down during a monsoon to ensure the ranch was green for the wedding, my dad is savoring a quick beer before hopping in his suit and enjoying the wedding. The wedding of our dreams does not exist without the transformation of the ranch he tirelessly worked for, and to have the perfect encompassing photo of him overseeing his mastery cannot be beat.
I work in fashion and one of my favorite things to do is plan out and envision my outfits. My wedding was no exception. Before trying on dresses I knew I wanted long sleeves. I couldn’t get the notion out of my head. I tried on 8 dresses before finding the one. I was in LOVE with the flutter detailing at the wrists. It had the luxe 60’s vibe that I had been looking for. My veil was so impeccably made. It really brought the whole look together and it made me feel like a goddess! The shoes though, those were my favorite. They’re a runway style and were sold out everywhere. I searched for 3 months and had almost given up until I found them!
The pictures of my dad giving me away to Sherrick gives me chills each time I look at them. Words truly can’t describe the emotion that was felt during that moment. I’ll cherish those photos forever.
After the ceremony we had a small window of time to take pictures before Cocktail Hour ended. The Ranch Hand, Adrian, suggested to Matt Lien that we take the Gator (which his essentially a golf cart tractor) up to the top of the mountain as the sun was setting. It was a secret vista that overlooked the entire ranch. You can imagine the difficulty level of stuffing a train, 5 inch heels, and a cathedral length veil into the tractor. The experience was unforgettable.
We were able to look at the ranch from angles that we had never seen, it was magical. We could hear faint music and laughter echoing from cocktail hour. For a moment we closed our eyes as we took a series of pictures, we were fully immersed in the moment and each other. It was unlike anything we had ever felt.
The best decision we made during the wedding planning process was hiring our wedding planners, Trista and Alex of BTS Event Management. We live in Los Angeles and we knew that planning a wedding out of state would be difficult. Especially a wedding where we would have to outsource everything.
We really wanted our wedding to have the traditional elements of a wedding, but wanted it to feel as though you had just walked into a chic party. With the wedding being at the ranch we knew that we needed to offset the rustic vibe. It was all about contrasting elements. This meant 50 Cent and Future playing during dinner, black, pink and gold accents, a TON of flowers, and of course, acrylic chairs. It became a running family joke that this was a wedding AT a ranch not to be confused with a ranch wedding.
Trista and Alex of BTS Event Management made us feel so at ease during the whole process. They helped us to completely transform the old chicken coop on the ranch, otherwise known as The Pollera, where our reception was. They even laughed with me when I would send them emails at 10pm asking if it was possible to source print napkins with botanicals and snakes like a Gucci print I found. Turns out… it wasn’t! We wouldn’t have had the wedding we did without them.
Matt Lien is an utter genius. I saw his work right here on Junebug when I was searching for a photographer in my beginning planning stages (things really came full circle!), and I was dead set on having him photograph our wedding after that. He has an insane ability to capture emotion. He captured our personalities and our family’s personalities so perfectly in every picture. He put us at ease on the day of and was truly a fly on the wall. He captured everything. The final product surpassed any expectations I had and evokes the same emotions in me that I felt that day.
If tree houses had a special place in your childhood, get ready to fall in love with this treehouse elopement from Liza Lente Styling! From the cozy pre-ceremony cuddles in bed to the moody first look photos in the woods to the sunset canoe ride across the lake, Ilka van Wieren Photography did an incredible job capturing every nuance of this styled shoot. We’re also obsessed with the bride’s off-the-shoulder lace dress from Wild At Heart Bridal Boutique and the dried flower bouquet Raket & Distels created to match the vintage vibe.
From the photographer: For us, the perfect intimate wedding day has to be an elopement where you can create the best adventure you can think of. So, this is the story of two people who are deeply in love and who want to get married while celebrating the simple outdoor life.
The ingredients for every bride-to-be: Get your soon-to-be husband in a treehouse like this, just the two of you, have a slow and easy morning, see the sunrise, make fresh coffee, jump straight back to bed, cuddle each other (and your coffee cups), and enjoy the quiet surroundings of the woods. When you feel it’s time for a little action, go wander in the woods to find the perfect spot to say yes to each other and celebrate with an intimate dinner! What’s not to love?
A big thanks to Liza Lente Styling for sharing this lovely treehouse elopement inspiration shoot with Junebug! If you want to see a real treehouse wedding for more dreamy inspiration, you’ve got to check out Daiane and Steven’s unique Atlanta treehouse wedding!
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