Today I have a wedding that is super stylish and elegant and comes from Long Island in New York. Jackie and Chris were married on 29th April at The Foundry in Long Island City. The wedding is a great mixture of DIY, elegant sophistication and modern touches. Both Chris and Jackie took a very hands on approach to the planning and on the day organisation, pitching in with friends and family to get the venue ready and looking amazing. The fresh greenery worked so well with the crisp white table clothes and added a super modern and clean look to the decoration. Mix in a delicious BBQ for that traditional Texan flavour to honour Jackie’s hometown. Big thanks to Danila Mendikov for the images and Bespoke Moments for the submission.

How they met 
We met at a nonprofit America Needs You. It?s for mentoring first generation low income college students. I hit on Chris 3 times before he understood I was asking him out. The rest is history…
The proposal

Chris got my two cousins to fly to New York from Houston. He asked them to pretend to meet us on the highline, and as we were waiting for them he got on one knee with a personalized flip book of characters of Chris and i doing everything we did that day (going to the Gagosian.. walking down the high line)..

Planning the wedding 

We split up researching vendors. We tried to keep things simple and under budget but there were a few things that were so important we had to splurge on. Dino bbq is one of ...