“It’s what I’ve done all my life. I’ve planned parties, and I would say this is the best party I’ve ever planned,” the bride says with a laugh, reminiscing the week-long celebration.

Around 140 guests joined the couple on their special day, most of them family and closest friends. Also invited was a Filipino priest from Rome, Father Bonifacio Lopez, whom Lhuillier had known since she was eight. Still, there were a few kinks that Lhuillier did not anticipate.

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“I was really shocked when the fireworks went off as we were cutting the cake...we moved to the corner of the villa which was on the ocean. They had the cake there. I was telling my husband, ‘My gosh, this is really amazing!’” says the bride. “The fireworks
were so beautiful.”

Florist Andrea Patrizi also decorated the La Posta Vecchia Hotel with Lhuiller’s favourite flower, the carnation, to emulate the folds of her dress.

Lhuillier, who has a liking for pink dresses, fell in love with the voluminous dress she had seen on her cousin Monique Lhuillier’s coffee table book. Her father, whom she asked about wedding dresses, encouraged the bride to walk down the aisle in a pink gown.

She shares, “It’s not couture, but it’s not off-the-rack because we customised it quite a bit. The original dress had sleeves on [both] sides. We did a spaghetti strap so it could fit my shape a little bit better. We did a little customisation on the bodice by adding a corset. We got the matching shoes and the matching veil. I also got the tiara from Monique. My wedding dress was Monique, but Mark Bumgarner did all my other dresses: from the welcome party to the despedida de soltera and the after-party.”

For their first dance, the pair joined hands and waltzed across the dance floor while their favourite song Fall on Me by Andrea Bocelli and Matteo Bocelli was playing in the background.

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“It was the first big event after Covid for a lot of people, so you can feel the excitement and joy envelop the occasion,” she says.

“Everybody was smiling!” Looking back, the bride believes that her dream wedding turned out to be better than she had ever imagined.

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