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Hector and Eduardo’s wedding in Los Angeles proved that formal weddings can be cool, modern, and deeply personal! The couple’s industrial wedding at 440 Seaton combined larger-than-life DIY projects with sophisticated, timeless event styling done by Tasteful Tatters. Between gold accents, galvanized pipes, and tons of natural greenery, Hector and Eduardo’s décor featured all of our favorite industrial accents. We’d be lying if we said we didn’t tear up at the couple’s emotional ceremony processional photos captured by Joe+Kathrina!
The most memorable part of the day was when we walked up the aisle together. Walking up the aisle together symbolized to us union, equality, and a new beginning.
From the photographers: In front of their family and friends, with Macklemore’s song Same Love beating through the speakers, Hector + Eduardo came together at the end of the aisle and walked towards something they thought they’d never be able to do. Get married. And in front 300 of their loved ones, they declared their love.
Our favorite photo is the one where we are sitting in our victorian lounge accompanied by our wedding party. We’re all in black and white looking very serious and classy. We feel that the picture captures the classic and timeless style that were were aiming for throughout the planning process.
We wanted our guest to experience something unique and to have a great time, so we added some personal unique touches like our hashtag #hewedding, personalized napkins, paletero, a popcorn bar, signature drink menu and of course the late night LA street hot dogs!
Because we’re both of Mexican heritage, we wanted to keep the food traditional. For cocktail hour we had a paletero man, chips with guacamole and salsa, and fresh fruit with chili powder Tajin. For dinner we had birria which is a stew made of beef marinated with many spices accompanied by rice and beans. We couldn’t end it there so as a late night snack we surprised guests with bacon wrapped LA Dogs of course!
We did a lot of DIY! We made the invites, the gold animal place card holders, favors, wine bottle centerpieces, table number holders, and a huge 16 ft long drapery piece. The funnest DIY project for us was consuming the 60 plus wine bottles 6 months prior to make the spray painted wine bottle centerpieces!
Our advice: Hire a planner!! Having a planner takes off so much stress!! Our planner was awesome – she took care of everything the day of the wedding and during the wedding planning!
Compromise was the name of the game in James and Paul’s wedding planning process. While James wanted a 200-person wedding in Mexico complete with a street party and a tequila donkey, Paul wanted to opt for something a little more intimate and timeless. Enter Scotland’s gorgeous coastal area, Isle of Skye. The couple’s Scottish destination elopement was equal parts breathtaking and playful, and we can’t get enough of photographer Eric Rene Penoy‘s documentation of their day. Shoot Me Now Films captured every intimate moment of James and Paul’s elopement in a theatrical film, including the couple’s deeply emotional vows shared among the powerful winds and rain in the Isle of Skye. And, don’t worry, James got his giant Mexican-inspired wedding reception once the couple returned home to the United States!
The Couple:
James and Paul
The Wedding:
Isle of Skye, Scotland
The most important part of wedding planning was selecting a timeless destination that we could return to over the years and not have the fear of it being changed.
We were set on having our wedding outdoors, which is funny because we are not really outdoorsy people. We chose Skye for its timelessness, dramatic landscape and rapidly shifting climate–the lighting whether dark or bright was pure magic.
The most memorable part was the intensity of it being just us and the celebrant on a quiet beach truly away from the world. And of course the truly Scottish weather–from partly sunny and windy in the morning to full on horizontal rain and brooding clouds during our ceremony!
Since we eloped none of our family or friends were there, but Paul had a surprise in store for me! Paul collected letters from all of them–full of well wishes, love, and advice–and presented them to me during the ceremony saying that they were all here in spirit and we would read them later. We have all of them saved in a box at home now.
We wanted darker suits and classic white shirts with lightly patterned ties–we felt this would work well with the Scottish landscape. And, on the high chance it would rain, the darker colors were not affected by the wetness!
Our advice: Compromising is okay–even recommended, if you’re going to share a life together. I started out wanting a medium-big wedding 200 people in Mexico with a street party and a tequila donkey (yes, it’s a real thing!), but that would have been 100% my personality and none of Paul‘s. So eventually we decided on eloping and then having the big ol’ Mexican party for our reception back in the States.
Our photographer Daniel, our videographer Eric, and our officiant Leslie were phenomenal. Literally we started as strangers and left as friends. Even when the light was at its darkest and the weather at its wettest they did the impossible and got the shots which Paul and I can look back on for decades to come. More than just professional they were genuine and I can’t recommend them highly enough.
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