00:00We coined him the Gorilla Groom because Andrew had an opinion for everything.
00:08Everything.
00:12We got engaged on August 26th of 2016.
00:16We actually went back to our original first date location, which is the South Street Seaport.
00:22There was actually a 22 push-up challenge that was happening at that time.
00:25And I said, hey, you know what, let's set up the camera, let's do it for Instagram like we normally
00:29do.
00:29On the South Street Seaport, we're going to have the background in this, it's going to be dope.
00:33And she started getting down and I was like, hold on, hold on, let me get down first.
00:37And when I got down to do the push-up, I pulled out the ring and she was like, what's
00:41happening right now?
00:42What's happening right now?
00:44And then at that moment I proposed and I said my words and that was that.
00:48From there, we had the picnic, had the drinks in the park, and then we went to an engagement dinner,
00:55a surprise engagement dinner.
00:56That's where all of our friends and her close family were there and just set the whole place off.
01:02She was, that's one of the greatest moments.
01:04That's what I love the most is her smile.
01:06You know, that's what I love the most.
01:08The smile that she got on her face, lit up the whole room and then set the tone right.
01:15My heart, my spirit, my future feels at ease with you in it.
01:22The typical groom, in my opinion, is a guy that just say yes, yes, yes, whatever you want, go ahead.
01:28Not my husband.
01:29We coined him the gorilla groom because Andrew had an opinion for everything.
01:36Yeah.
01:37Everything.
01:38It mattered.
01:39From the table set and from the knives, from the venue, like the jewelry that our bridal party wore, like
01:46everything.
01:47But it mattered.
01:48And as the bride, I took no offense to it because it was actually helpful because it settled a lot
01:55of my thoughts, whether should I do A, should I do B?
01:58Right.
01:58He had an opinion so it helped.
02:00The dress embodied old Hollywood.
02:03So once I told him the theme was we'll be old Hollywood, he then made sure that his tux went
02:10into that theme and we made sure that the girls, the bridesmaids and the groomsmen went into that theme and
02:15everything else just started falling into place.
02:18And credit to the team at Marina Del Rey as well because they really had a fantastic team there.
02:22Yeah.
02:22And the moment we pulled up, when we saw the water looking over the two bridges was, I was sold
02:29at that point.
02:30And the team at Marina Del Rey held us down and made us feel confident once we said, it's our
02:35day, we're going to let go now.
02:37And we're going to be.
02:38That was hard to let go.
02:39It was hard to let go.
02:40It was hard to let go.
02:40Type A personality.
02:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:42A plus plus personalities.
02:44We had a wedding singer that sang Ribbon in the Sky because that's one of his favorite songs.
02:50Mm-hmm.
02:50It was incredible.
02:53My walk was long.
02:55It was a long walk.
02:56I kept coming on steps.
02:57By the time I reached you is when the song actually finished.
03:01Like, I walked the entire song.
03:03I kept it in.
03:04She's mad.
03:05I didn't cry.
03:06I wanted tears.
03:09But we had the standard flow, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception.
03:14But we wanted to cut out the nonsense.
03:16For instance, we didn't do a garter toss.
03:18We didn't do a bouquet toss.
03:20We wanted time to party.
03:21Yeah, that's all.
03:22Honestly, that's all it was.
03:23We just want to get straight to business.
03:25Yes, we wanted to party.
03:26The food itself was incredible.
03:28So Marina Del Rey, they're an Italian catering company.
03:32The food was so good that we did three food tastings.
03:37We kept reading different people as an excuse.
03:40Our cocktail hour was the bomb.
03:43So we heard.
03:43Yeah, so we heard.
03:44But we knew what the menu looked like.
03:47They had sushi station, American station, Chinese station.
03:51Shrimp and shrimp and shrimp.
03:53There was so much food and we didn't taste...
03:56Not a lick.
03:57Not a lick.
03:58Wedding day, you get dragged.
03:59Hey, picture, picture, picture, moment, moment.
04:01So you're trying to create all these moments for memories,
04:04but then forgetting to stuff your belly.
04:14We're going to play Caribbean music anyway.
04:16We know everybody's going to grab a flag
04:19or grab something off the table and try and wave it in the air
04:21at every song that we play anyway.
04:24So we said, you know what?
04:25Let's piece it together with a whole environment,
04:28with a background to it.
04:29So that's where the Stilt Walkers came in.
04:31Each guest had their own specific flag.
04:34Yep.
04:34So whether you was from Trinidad,
04:35whether you was from China, Ecuador, Colombia,
04:37Jamaica, Antigua.
04:39Just gorgeous.
04:40Just seeing the United Nations.
04:42Waving.
04:43All at the party.
04:50I felt very proud.
04:52I felt very proud.
04:53I felt blessed.
04:54It was beautiful just to have our families that have witnessed it
04:58and to say that I'm actually at this point where I have the one that I've chosen.
05:02I have somebody in my life now to call my own for the rest of my life.
05:06All of those things really just came as a combination of emotions.
05:09And I was just like, wow.
05:12Wow.
05:13This is a big wow.
05:14This isn't a big wow.
05:14It made meWork.
05:16It's like a nature of your pain this is still not a society.
05:18Yeah, yeah.
05:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:21Your love and all.
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