Southern Weddings

What did you do for New Year’s Eve 2008?  If you’re Libby + Jimmy, you got married.  And if you’re friends or family of Libby + Jimmy, you attended their smashing reception that carried on well into the New Year.  Why have a New Year’s Eve wedding? For the lovely bride and groom, it was a perfect long weekend for guests wanting to travel to this destination wedding in Florida.  Wedding details include: wedding coordination by {Wonderful Weddings}, bride’s gown by {Peter Langner}, groom’s suit by {Brooks Brothers}, flower decor by {Flourish Floral Productions}, wedding cake by {The Pastry Studio} and photography by {Garrett Nudd Photographer}.

How did the two of you meet? Tell us your story. Libby: We met at a Greek (fraternity and semi-formal event) at UC Berkeley, when Jimmy was 21 and I was 19 years old, when Jimmy danced up to me during the song Red Red Wine. A month later we recognized each other at a popular undergraduate bar, KIPs, in Berkeley and realized we had mutual friends and also that we got along fantastically. After a few months as friends, I asked Jimmy to a Sorority Dance party and seven short years later we would be engaged. We moved across the bay to San Francisco after Berkeley and lived in the Marina and North Beach for three years before Libby left Jimmy behind to pursue a career in entertainment in LA. In a rare case of a successful long distance relationship, after a year Jimmy moved to Newport Beach to join Libby where we lived on Balboa Island.
Describe the proposal: Jimmy: I proposed to Libby in the summer of 2006 on her 26th birthday after we had dinner and drinks over-looking the ocean at Las Brisas in Laguna Beach. I took her down to a secluded cove at sunset and gave her a USB device key chain which she assumed was her birthday present. Before she threw it into the water I told her to look at the end of the key chain and attached was the ring. I then got on one knee and she said Yes.
A date we’ll always remember: On our first date we rented bikes in San Francisco and rode across the Golden Gate Bridge to Tiburon where we had lunch at SAMS. We then took the ferry back to San Francisco and had dinner in North Beach at Rose Pistolla.
Why did you choose a New Years Eve date? New Years Eve worked out perfectly because we could make a long weekend out of the wedding since many of the attendees were flying across the country from California and could take advantage of extra vacation days. We had festivities for four nights and four days, which made it more of a mini-vacation for those making the long-journey.
Another reason we liked New Years was that we thought it was a good idea to get all of our friends together for a big party; we thought that a New Years wedding would further heighten the celebratory vibe to enhance the liveliness of the party. The trick was that we had to have the party extend past midnight and wanted to get married at sunset. That resulted in a seven hour reception in which a few of the guests “became overly excited, escalating faster than the party” and did not make it until midnight. Regardless the dance floor was packed until the band stopped playing at 1:00.
Where did you honeymoon, What places did you stay? We honeymooned in Aspen Colorado and stayed at the Sky Hotel which was ski-in and ski-out. The hotel is very hip with a younger crowd. For the first two nights we were exhausted from the wedding festivities and went to bed around 8PM. The third day after getting back to the hotel from a day of skiing the concierge greeted us “hello Perkins’, I can get you in for the 5:45 early bird dinner special. It was then we realized we had to step it up a notch to see what Aspen had to offer. The great part about Aspen is that you can ski all day and then enjoy the amazing restaurants and the nightlife. We met some very interesting couples most of which involved 50-year-old men and 25-year-old women.

Congratulations to Libby + Jimmy!  We wish you a lifetime of happpiness and joy!