To Infinity and Beyond…Ahmed to represent Celebrations at Shuttle Launch!

 

Ahmed Elkaswani from Celebrations was the coordinator for a wedding for an extraordinary couple on January 19, 2008. Both individuals are astronauts working at NASA in Cape Canaveral! Gregory Johnson is a Pilot for NASA and his wife Nanette Faget is a Ground Engineer. This wedding was for about 30 guests at a Villa in Kaibo. The couple and their guests were extremely happy with Ahmed’s service and the expertise of the other vendors we hired for them.

"Greg and I had our first vacation together on Grand Cayman in July 2007. Greg always said that one of the keys to a happy marriage is to be compatible on a vacation so this was sort of a test for us, a fun one at that! Needless to say we had a perfect vacation. We spent a luxurious romantic week, just the two of us and had a wonderful time - scuba diving, snorkeling, hanging out at Rum Point, shopping in Georgetown, touring Pedro's Castle, eating out at all the excellent restaurants, and floating in our pool. Two months later Greg proposed so I guess we were pretty compatible.

After he proposed I found out there was an ulterior motive to our trip. We both knew we wanted to have a destination wedding so while we were on vacation he was also scouting out possible wedding locations," says Nanette.

They have since invited Ahmed to view the highly publicized launch of the Atlantis Space Craft in Cape Canaveral, Florida on October 10, 2008. This is a very important event in the USA and is one of the last missions to repair the Hubble scope. Ahmed is very exciting to be attending the launch and witnessing this moment in history first hand!

Gregory Johnson is the Pilot of this shuttle and has also informed us he will be flying a Cayman Islands flag with him on the Space Shuttle and will also be trying to get a photo of the Cayman Islands from space. He will then return to Cayman and present this photo and the flag to either the Governor or another Cayman Island Government Representative.

Needless to say, we are all extremely excited and strongly feel that it has been Ahmed’s excellent service and Celebrations top of the line involvement in this couple’s wedding from the start that has made such a huge impact on their view of the Cayman Islands. We strongly believe that this is an extremely important opportunity for us as an Island and that this truly is history in the making!

Talitha & Bill ...Color Fetish

Talitha Levine & Bill Wegner, both of Sherman Oaks, California, chose June 21st as their wedding day and the Cayman Islands as the location for their dream destination wedding.

Talitha or Talli wanted vibrance and they chose vivid, dramatic colors for their exotic Caribbean wedding! She is one of the many brides that we've had the pleasure to work with who thinks that color is really important -- and who fully embraced that weddings need no longer be all white and that colors can add flavour to their wedding.

For this outdoor wedding, Celebrations created an atmosphere of rustic chic. With the world-famous Seven Mile Beach as the backdrop, we created a simple canopy flambouyantly draped with fuchsia voille fabric. Gold chivari chairs with fuchsia seats flanked the white carpet aisleway.

The wedding ceremony took place on the sparkling, white sand beaches of the beautiful Westin Casuarina Resort, and a few steps away from the ceremony on a nearby patio at the Westin, Celebrations created the entire reception site. For this, we took a conventional white tent and transformed it into rustic chic scene with hints of Asian inspiration. Overhead was woven with hundreds of willow branches which covered the ceiling and poles of the tent. There was an incredible ambiance and atmosphere created under this most charming finish, to which we added bright orange and fuchsia lanterns in assorted sizes and pomanders of fresh roses were strung from the tent ceiling creating a magical realm.

The floral centrepieces were a mixture of different displays with simplicity as the theme. Each table had an assortment of clear vases displaying assorted flowers on each vase, creating a colorful and multi-layered look on the table.

The tables were covered in beautiful crushed satin orange linen.

A closer look at the details that made this couture high-end designer wedding one to remember!

Talli and her special flower girls posing with the gorgeous Seven Mile Beach as the background.

Talli's cascading hand tied bouquet was made of Freesias, Lilies, Mocorra Orchids, Roses, Phaelanopsis and Cateleya Orchids. Exquisite bridal bouquet, perfect choice for this couture wedding. The girls wore floral halos using the same coloured flowers.

Talli and Bill sharing an intimate moment after their wedding ceremony.

Photos by: Fevi Yu