Patricia Dunbar & Isi Azeke
July 30, 2023, at The Bradbury
Photography by Carrie Coleman Photography
With an elegant backdrop like The Bradbury, Patricia didn’t feel the need to include too many embellishments in her and Isi’s summer wedding. She left the flowers up to Tourterelle, only giving a direction for neutral colors; the bridesmaids wore pale pink one-shoulder gowns; and Patricia chose warm tones for décor, with gray tablecloths and shimmering candles. “I felt this was timeless and easy to match,” she says.
The unfettered scheme set the scene for a beautiful brunch wedding, where each guest—from Isi’s Nigerian side and Patricia’s Jamaican—could enjoy “good food, company, and music,” says Patricia. Plus, she notes, everyone seemed to enjoy the money spray—a Nigerian wedding tradition during which guests shower the couple with more and more cash the longer they dance. It symbolizes showering the couple with blessings. It must have worked.
“[I love] learning new things about each other and growing together,” the bride says. “Having someone to share all the large and small joys from day to day and all the accomplishment and disappointments along the way.”
Love in lockdown
The couple met online in April 2020 during the height of COVID. Their first date was that May, and they dated long-distance for two and a half years before getting engaged in Paris in November 2022.
Let’s go
Patricia and Isi are planning a trip to Croatia in May 2024 for their honeymoon.
The fine details
Event planner Sarah Fay Waller (Day By Fay) Officiant Quentin Washington Catering Harvest Moon Catering Flowers Tourterelle Floral Design Cake Cake Bloom Music Wemi-Mo Bride’s attire Ava Laurenne (Fredericksburg) Shoes Badgley Mischka Groom’s attire Custom by Commonwealth Proper Groomsmen’s attire Suit Supply Bridesmaids’ dresses FancyVestido Rings Jared (groom), Mark Pallanche (bride) Makeup Rouge 9 Videographer CY Wedding Films
