Dia de Los Muertos Wedding at Loreto, Mexico
Never in a million years would I have thought a wedding inspired by Dia de Los Muertos would be the wedding that tops all in my heart, but One Love Photography and this gorgeous couple just rocked my world. Set in Mexico, the wedding had the cool factor that comes naturally to few and is impossible to emulate, making it even more amazing in my book!
From the bride... I know it might sound cheesy, but we really wanted for our wedding to be a celebration of love. Not just our love for each other, but for all of our friends and family and an overall love for life. We wanted for everyone to relax and have a ridiculously good time in a beautiful location. We saw this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to have so many of the people we love most in this world in one place, we just wanted to enjoy that time together and be able to take it all in.
Andrew and I are makers, so we wanted to contribute in as many ways as possible to crafting the full experience and inviting our friends and family to take part, too. We made many of the decorations together, as well as the invitations… which was admittedly a big task. Andrew brewed beer to serve (that we drove down to Mexico with!) Our closest friends sang and played guitar in the ceremony, did my hair and makeup and even officiated. The treats were special, too—my grandmother made Vinetarte, an Icelandic wedding cake that I grew up with, and our friend Pat made giant bowls of spiked punch (which took a whole team of our friends to squeeze limes for).
One of the toughest things for me was deciding how to incorporate something for my mom into the ceremony (she passed away a few years ago from cancer). I knew she wouldn’t want anything to feel sad. We decided to make our ceremony programs as paper bags and my aunt and cousin spent a full day baking up my mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe so we could have one inside each bag.
We still can’t believe how everything just fell into place. There were points when it felt crazy with how much we were doing, but it all turned out. We had such a good time. And then, of course, there was my grandmothers playing beer pong against each other. Never saw that one coming.
Andrew and I are makers, so we wanted to contribute in as many ways as possible to crafting the full experience and inviting our friends and family to take part, too. We made many of the decorations together, as well as the invitations… which was admittedly a big task. Andrew brewed beer to serve (that we drove down to Mexico with!) Our closest friends sang and played guitar in the ceremony, did my hair and makeup and even officiated. The treats were special, too—my grandmother made Vinetarte, an Icelandic wedding cake that I grew up with, and our friend Pat made giant bowls of spiked punch (which took a whole team of our friends to squeeze limes for).
One of the toughest things for me was deciding how to incorporate something for my mom into the ceremony (she passed away a few years ago from cancer). I knew she wouldn’t want anything to feel sad. We decided to make our ceremony programs as paper bags and my aunt and cousin spent a full day baking up my mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe so we could have one inside each bag.
We still can’t believe how everything just fell into place. There were points when it felt crazy with how much we were doing, but it all turned out. We had such a good time. And then, of course, there was my grandmothers playing beer pong against each other. Never saw that one coming.