Jamie, a Senior Account Manager at Uber, is a Brooklyn transplant from California, though her story has never really stayed in one place. She and Cameron, who works at the family spirits company Lory & Eaglet, met in New York, had their first date in LA, and have been collecting passport stamps ever since, with London holding a special place as the city behind their biggest milestones, including the engagement. These days, they’re rooted in Park Slope, farmers’ markets, cocktail-bar opinions, and three cats who couldn’t care less about their travel plans.
Location: Mexico City (CDMX), Mexico
Style: Cinematic, Intentional, Romantic
Number of guests: 130
Time of planning: A little over a year
Setting: Restored Mansion
Season: Spring
“Our love story is one of those stories that shouldn’t have happened,” Jamie says. “It was a series of tiny, perfectly timed moments that could have easily gone another way.” They met at a gala in New York, where Jamie’s former company was hosting the event and Cameron’s uncle had invited him last minute to represent Rabbit Hole. Jamie went to check in with his uncle, one of her clients, and Cameron walked up at the same moment. His uncle made the introduction and disappeared, leaving them talking for the next hour before the night pulled them apart, Jamie going home without his number. She Googled “Cameron” and “Rabbit Hole Bourbon,” found him on Instagram, and he DM’d her that week. A month later, both home in LA for the holidays, they had their first date, and doing long distance for a year and a half only brought them closer.
Cameron’s proposal was planned down to the last detail. He took her to Spring Studios, where they’d first met, then past her old apartment for a photo, before leading her to a candlelit room at the One Hotel in Dumbo, where he got down on one knee. The next morning, they flew to London and Paris for a trip he’d planned in secret. “It felt perfectly us,” Jamie says, “a walk through our entire New York story, followed by the cities that have always held our biggest moments.”
Planning & Photography
The planning process was intentional, obsessive in the best way, and deeply personal. Jamie and Cameron originally didn’t want a traditional wedding at all, but after realizing life is short and memories are fleeting, they knew it had to happen entirely on their own terms. Mexico City felt like the obvious choice, its food, architecture, and energy reflecting exactly how they love to experience the world together. They browsed venues extensively online but flew down and toured only General Prim, already trusting their gut, and the moment they walked in, they knew. From there, Jamie approached planning the way she approaches most creative projects, researching everything and refusing to let any decision feel like a compromise. “Our planner Beatriz once told me she’d never had a bride more deeply in the weeds, or more ahead of schedule,” Jamie says. “I’ll take it.”
A lot of the visual direction traced back to a Gucci campaign Jamie had come across, ornate green and pink velvet curtains that sparked something in her immediately. That richness, that maximalist elegance, ended up shaping much of the reception design, especially the print materials, the invitations, bar menus, and dinner menus. The venue itself felt like a natural extension of that reference, with its romantic architecture, natural, worn-in colors, and moody ambiance all speaking the same language. AH Lovestories captured every bit of it, images that carried the same richness and mood running through the design itself.
Fashion
Finding the dress took months. “This took me months,” Jamie says. “I actually flew to LA twice because I thought I found my dress on the first trip, but after sitting with it, I realized I was forcing it and just wanted the hunt for my dress to be over.” It wasn’t until her second trip, at her very last appointment, that she finally tried on the dress and knew instantly. “I also knew it was the one when the woman helping me in the store started tearing up too.”
She’d always known she wanted lace, notoriously difficult to pull off without looking cheap. “Elie Saab is famous for lace appliqué, embroidery, and couture-level finishing, so it felt like the perfect fit,” she says. “It’s definitely my most timeless bridal look, but I love that the three separate pieces, the strapless dress, the sleeve overlay, and the dramatic train, make it feel like a true fashion moment and so iconic.”
The dress came with its own story too. The exact gown Jamie chose had just arrived at the store after the owner waited nine months for it, and when Jamie tried it on, it fit perfectly, even the length. As they were about to leave the salon, Jamie’s mother, who works at Restoration Hardware, recognized the couch in the store, she’d actually sold it to the owner years earlier, and the two women realized they already knew each other. The owner was so delighted by the connection that she offered to sell Jamie the gown straight off the showroom floor, sparing her another nine-month wait and a long list of alterations.
Jamie’s jewelry carried the most sentiment in her look. Her engagement ring was created by Cameron, working with his family’s jeweler, while their wedding bands came from a jeweler in Pinehurst, North Carolina, one of their favorite places in the world. Almost everything else Jamie wore that day had belonged to her late grandmother, Mimi: diamond stud earrings, a blue sapphire bracelet, a sapphire ring inspired by Princess Diana’s, made by her grandfather, and Mimi’s diamond eternity band. Her veil was custom-made from leftover lace pulled from the Elie Saab gown, with flowers hand-restitched onto the edges by her seamstress.
For the ceremony, Cameron wore a light linen suit in khaki and tan, then changed into a Todd Snyder peak lapel tuxedo for the evening. He was heavily involved in choosing every piece himself, something Jamie loved watching unfold. “It was a really fun experience together,” she says, “and we have become legitimately friends with our sales rep at Todd Snyder, who was amazing to work with.”
First Look
One of the most memorable moments of the day was the first look. “There’s something incredibly sacred about that moment,” Jamie says, “just the two of us, before the rest of the world joined in, seeing each other for the first time on the most important day of our lives.”
Ceremony
The ceremony took place at General Prim in Mexico City, woven through with a few meaningful Jewish elements: a chuppah and the traditional breaking of the glass. Jamie’s uncle officiated, a plastic surgeon by day who delivered, in the couple’s words, the most perfect ceremony they could have asked for. He struck exactly the right balance of sentimental and light, weaving genuine emotion alongside laughter and explaining the significance of each Jewish tradition so it felt educational and inclusive rather than purely symbolic. Guests were so moved by the experience that he’s since had multiple requests to moonlight as an officiant.
Then came the vows. They each wrote their own, and standing there reading them to each other, the rest of the room fell away completely. Seven years of inside jokes, airport goodbyes, late-night FaceTimes, and big life decisions, distilled into a few minutes that somehow held all of it. “They felt less like wedding vows,” Jamie says, “and more like love letters from everything we’d already lived together.” Beyond the Jewish traditions woven in, the ceremony stayed non-denominational and deeply personal, centered entirely on the two of them taking a vow to commit their lives to each other.
Cocktail Hour
The cocktail program got the same level of attention as everything else. During one of their planning trips to Mexico City, Jamie and Cameron sat down with the Pernod Ricard team for a full cocktail strategy and tasting session, working through every drink that would be served with the same care they brought to the rest of the day. On the night itself, guests had tableside cocktails they could customize and pour themselves, an unexpected interactive touch that ended up becoming one of the most talked-about moments of the evening.
Reception Design
Jamie and Cameron got married in one of their favorite cities in the world, in a venue that felt more like an art space than a traditional wedding hall, which was exactly the point. The aesthetic was moody and organic, a whimsical floral installation running the entire length of the tables, varied heights and textures, candlelight everywhere, and a color palette that felt rich but never overdone. Deeply romantic and emotional, but also celebratory, the kind of wedding where the vibe and the meaning existed in the same room at the same time.
The florals, designed by Xochipilli Studio, were everything they’d hoped for and more. The tablescape ran the entire length of the tables like one long, flowing composition, varied in height and texture, moody and whimsical, the kind of arrangement that makes a room feel alive. What stopped them in their tracks was the chuppah, draped in lush greenery with delicate white flowers woven throughout, almost like votives emerging from the vines, so naturally composed it looked like it had been growing up through the stones of the floor for years. “We didn’t want to leave it,” Jamie says.
Reception
Beyond how it looked, what Jamie and Cameron wanted most was for guests to experience something they’d never quite encountered before: the city of CDMX, the venue, the local vendors they’d spent months finding and falling in love with. Every detail was intentional enough that people could feel the couple in the room even when they weren’t standing right beside them. “More than one guest told us afterward that they felt like they were in a film,” Jamie says. “We’ll take that as the highest compliment.”
The music experience was carefully layered from beginning to end. Their DJ, a CDMX nightclub legend with impeccable taste, spun vinyl throughout the welcome party, setting a tone that felt closer to a cool downtown evening than a traditional wedding. The reception moved into a full DJ set, and the after-party was handed off to close friends from New York behind the decks. Every piece, the lighting, the custom ice, the bespoke cocktails curated with the Pernod Ricard team, the florals, the music, was designed to feel whimsical and ornate, but alive.
"Ana, we truly don't have the words. When we first saw the photos, we were completely overwhelmed. You captured not just how everything looked, but how it felt: the emotion, the quiet moments, the details we spent months obsessing over, and the ones that just happened on their own. That is an incredibly rare and special gift."
Advice from the couple:
• Trust your gut and don’t compromise! We toured one venue. We booked our photographer before anyone else. We designed our own invitations because nothing else felt right. I went down a rabbit hole (no pun intended) to customize my perfect welcome-party dress when nothing else in stores felt quite right. Every time we followed our instincts, it paid off – and every moment of hesitation was always followed by clarity when we stopped trying to fit a template.
• Invest in the experience, not just the aesthetic. The things our guests talked about most weren’t the things we could have predicted – it was the tableside cocktails, the vinyl set, the surprise of a secret room for the after-party, DJed by our closest friend. Those moments happened because we were intentional about every transition of the night – not just how things looked, but how they felt.
PHOTOGRAPHY AH Lovestories | VENUE General Prim | PLANNING & DESIGN Beatriz Gutierrez Events | VIDEOGRAPHY Tan Weddings | FLORALS Xochipilli Studio | WEDDING GOWN Elie Saab via NWLA Bridal | WELCOME PARTY LOOKS The LG Project | AFTER PARTY LOOK Roberto Cavalli via Raffe Vintage | STATIONERY Designed by Jamie Leaali, produced with Sweet Date Prints | HAIR Cut by Liana Noelle, Color by Erik O Hair, Bridal Hair by Bride Lab, Bridesmaids Hair by Bridal Brunch | MAKEUP Skin by Anastasia Skin Care Studio, Bridal Makeup by Natalie Lageyre, Bridesmaids Makeup by Bridal Brunch | LIGHTING MOW Music Dealers | GETTING READY VENUE & HOTEL Ignacia House | RENTALS Espacio Central, 11:11, Rent & Co & Alquimia Producciones | MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Alexis DJ via Capital DJs & Escenia MX | CATERING Eduardo Kohlmann | COCKTAIL STRATEGY & MIXOLOGY Pernod Ricard
