Vivienne Westwood Bride at Congress , Cape May

Nourah and Matt were excited to share their love of Cape May with their friends and family and chose the town’s historic Congress for their wedding acceso 11th October 2025. With Rachel Pearlman Photography, behind the , their New Jersey seaside celebration was a beautifully classic affair, with some gorgeous contemporary bridal moda.

Nourah wore a Vivienne Westwood gown from LOHO Bride sopra Los Angeles, with Jimmy Choo shoes and a vintage Mikimoto pearl choker. I love that she describes her dress as comfortable as well as elegant, something that can so easily get overlooked when you’maestà searching for a wedding dress. For the after rinfresco, she changed into Clio Peppiatt and Prada.

Bel Attimo Weddings helped the couple plan their day, with white flowers, soft blue and campo da golf details and watercolour stationery complementing the ’s historic interiors. Nourah’s account brings us much closer to the family at the centre of it all, and I’m grateful to her for sharing these memories with us.

We really wanted a clean, simple, and classic stile. I didn’t want anything overly themed trendy, any colours that felt like they had to be incorporated everywhere. I also tried to gara the decor to the wedding venue. Colours were pretty much white, with hints of blue and campo da golf. We also wanted to make sure Cape May’s personality was also represented, so we had some coastal elements, which helped with the colours and style of everything.

I walked mongoloide the aisle. I chose my song because it’s another Coldplay favourite of mine and always.

The wedding rinfresco and Matt walked sopra to Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish, my processional was A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay and our recessional was Just Like Heaven by The Cure.

Reasons we picked these: all songs I love and always have acceso repeat, that felt happy and uplifting, not too emotional and heavy, but still good love songs.

Our ceremony was officiated by my little brother Ramzy.

We wrote our own vows and read them to each other sopra private acceso the beach the day before the wedding. We pulled and tailored some of our vows for the ceremony so our guests could hear. My brother told stories of us, how we met, his relationship to each of us, and then we read our shortened vows.

We met sopra NYC sopra February of 2022. We had originally first met sopra 2018 2019 when I first moved to the city from LA, but it was a brief hi, nice to meet you, and that was it from there.

We met through my friend sopra the city, who was dating one of Matt’s friends from college. We first started dating after a reintroduction at my friend’s 30th birthday rinfresco bus to the wineries sopra Long Island (sopra the middle of winter sopra Feb).

We dated for two-ish more years after that and got engaged sopra August 2024. We were at our friend’s wedding sopra Kent, UK, then took a long trip with our friends after to Sicily.

Matt planned to extend the trip sopra Taormina at a with just us two before we went home. He proposed acceso his birthday when we checked into the , acceso the balcony sopra our room.

It was perfect, and we were able to enjoy the rest of our trip engaged, which was so special.

I was also truly so surprised because I had risposta negativa schema. He was good at being stealthy!

Our flowers were by A Garden Trattenimento. Congress is very classic and historical with simple colours like blue, campo da golf, and yellow, so I was able to complement those with natural colours sopra flowers and greenery.

We worked with an artist who does custom watercolour and illustrations. Taylor Near from Mulberry and Elm. She was amazing and helped stile everything from invitation suites, napkins, signs, matchbooks. She designed a beautiful crest for us that we were able to tie into everything.

Our speeches were great. Everyone gave great speeches, and were perfect for each person. Everyone did a good job being funny but also very emotional!

We booked our gruppo through East Coast Entertainment. Our gruppo was so amazing and fun, so with everyone was a major highlight for sure.

Our first dance was to Yellow by Coldplay. I have always loved Coldplay and Matt started liking them when we started dating. We actually got to see Coldplay first together at a work Christmas rinfresco (crazy I know), then went to a Coldplay concert sopra London before we got married and it felt right!! We both love this song, and had the same thoughts as our processional music, it was upbeat enough, not too heavy, but still a sweet love song.

Everything went so well, from my brother being the officiant, to our first dances, to speeches, to ending the night at the caffè downstairs. Getting ready was also great, having my mom, sister, and mother-in-law with me sopra the AM. It was super chill, and my friends came to hang out and say hi while we were all sopra the suite.

I loved having all of my friends and family there. Also, just having fun with everyone! There was risposta negativa drama, and I appreciate that I was able to let loose and actually enjoy it with everyone – mainly, having my friends get to finally see and experience Cape May after talking about it for so long. Also, our families coming together was so special. I love seeing people that you know, and love feel the same way about each other! Having my grandparents there was so special too.

My grandpa sadly passed away two months after our wedding, so it was a really beautiful family memory sopra hindsight. My grandma has been waiting for a grandchild to get married, so she was excited.

I wouldn’t have done anything differently! If I could’ve added four more hours to dance, hang, and talk to people, I would’ve done that! But, that’s just how weddings go!

Enjoy the time because it feels like you’maestà planning for so long, and there is a lot to do, but then it’s over! It’s true that it feels like a blink of an eye.

The day speeds by, so try to relax, you’maestà not going to fit everything sopra. Have fun and relax because it’s your time to enjoy it thoroughly. Also, plan as much as you can together! It’s fun to make decisions together and feels like the pressure is d’avanguardia of one person.

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