Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn1/30Michael took this photo of me on the beach of our hotel, The Dunmore, when we arrived on the island—I love the color composition and the Technicolor quality to it.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn2/30My dear friend and London-based photographer Ithaka Roddam came by with a group of our closest friends to help me get ready. She took this photo of me standing on the porch of my wedding suite at The Dunmore, minutes before I slipped into my wedding dress.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn3/30A photo of my wedding dress by the Spanish bridal house Yolan Cris.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn4/30My beautiful mother, Joanne Metcalf (left), helping me to iron out the final touches on my wedding dress, along with her two sisters and my brilliant aunts, Fern and Stephanie Mallis.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn5/30From left: These are three rings that hold great sentimental value to me; I wore each of them on our wedding day. The first one is a vintage H.Stern Sputnik ring, it belonged to my maternal grandmother, Vera Mallis. She was a natural beauty with a contagious laugh, an avid traveler, a culture addict—she brought this ring back from a trip to Brazil. My mother, Joanne Metcalf, gifted me the ring when I moved to New York to be with Michael. One could say it’s a lucky charm—I never take it off. The middle ring my father, Jim Lampley, gave to me to wear on the wedding day. It is literally 100 years old to the year and was my great-grandmother Mildred Askew Lampley’s engagement ring. The third ring is my family crest signet ring from Richard Ogden, my stepfather, Justin Metcalf’s, family jeweler in London. My mother and sisters each have one.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn6/30Me doing my own makeup for the wedding ceremony. Apart from my go-to beauty staples, my fairy godmother, Jane Hetzmark Hudis, gifted me a curated selection of top products from Estée Lauder Companies I used religiously throughout the wedding week and on the day of.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn7/30My aunt Fern Mallis pinning a family heirloom from my mother-in-law, Liz Berens, to the inside of my dress. The heirloom had been passed down from generations of women in her family, a delicate heart-shaped brooch made of sea pearls and a Tiffany-blue silk bow.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn8/30These shoes were gifted to me prior to the wedding by Michael. I’ve always been a Roger Vivier enthusiast, and to be able to wear his exquisite shoes all night long felt like a real luxury.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn9/30My darling niece and flower maiden, Emma Berens, holding up my dress train as I’m leaving my wedding suite and en route to the church.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn10/30Java House is a stunning house where my in-laws stayed for the week of the wedding. I have fond memories of it, as it’s also the house where Michael and I stayed when we went on holiday after we got engaged. For tradition sake, Michael slept there the night before our wedding and got ready here with his groomsmen.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn11/30Proof that Brits do it better. The sensational Lily Bertrand-Webb, Lotte Andersen, Milica Kastner, and Aoife O’Brien snapped by Ithaka Roddam before entering the church.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn12/30The exterior of our wedding church, St. John’s Anglican, framed with fragrant white rose trees.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn13/30My father, Jim Lampley, and I, both jubilant and smiling from ear-to-ear upon entering the church and walking down the aisle to the choir singing Bill Withers’s “Lovely Day.”
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn14/30Michael and I beaming during the exchanging of our vows with Father Russell.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn15/30Michael and I kissing upon exiting the church as husband and wife.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn16/30Our getaway cart! We embraced the local vibes with a golf cart covered in palm fronds and flowers with a coconut trailing behind. Immediately after the church ceremony, Michael and I jumped into the cart, tailing our marching band, and drove off to have some solo time prior to the next celebration.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn17/30Our bridal party, post-church ceremony, hitting the beach to take photos and enjoy the sunset together.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn18/30Our wedding tent, designed by our phenomenal wedding planners, Ben and Charlotte Simmons of Little Island Design. They did a magnificent job of creating an atmosphere that felt simultaneously elevated and bohemian. The hand-painted dance floor became a focal point for the guests—a real plus, as we wanted everyone dancing from beginning to end.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn19/30Michael and I on the beach before entering our wedding tent for the first time.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn20/30This photo was taken at sunset before everyone arrived, hence the serene quality. We wanted to create an inviting area away from the wedding tent for people to drink under the stars, to rest their feet in between songs, to socialize, to smoke freely, and, most of all, to enjoy the beachscape throughout the night. Ben and Charlotte Simmons, along with their phenomenal team (Marisha is a rock star), created a breathtaking setting filled with palm trees, a fire pit, outdoor tented bar, wicker chairs, strings of tea lights floating between the trees, hurricane lamps, and white sofas covered with lime green and cerulean blue patterned pillows—a total dream.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn21/30The menus were hand-painted by my talented friend Alix Verley-Pietrafesa, the founder and visionary behind Alix of Bohemia. She designed and gifted Michael and I the cocktail menus and dinner menus for our wedding day.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn22/30For the wedding dinner aesthetic, we went with four long tables framing the dance floor. Each table was adorned with palm trees, lots of bamboo, white accents, rattan and wicker details, and fresh local red and fuchsia bougainvillea flowers intertwined with white roses. Michael and I steered clear of a wedding “color scheme” and decided to go with embracing colors, flowers, and materials that could be sourced locally and that complemented the ethereal white tent and the surrounding tropical environment.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn23/30Michael and I during our first dance to Donnie & Joe Emerson’s song Baby from the album Dreamin’ Wild.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn24/30Our friends listening to the wedding speeches: From left, Alba Hodsoll and Gabriella Wall, Luke Alen Buckley, Lillie Rage, and Portia Alen Buckley.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn25/30After our mother and father dances, we surprised guests with a celebratory Junkanoo Rush, which got all the guests on their feet due to the infectious rhythm of the music. Friends pictured: Michelle Lu, Ithaka Roddam, Julia Jansch, and Carolina Pasti.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn26/30From left: My inspiring and iconic aunt Fern Mallis and my gorgeous and equally inspiring older sister and matron of honor, Brooke Lampley Papagianis.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn27/30Another photo of the Junkanoo Rush in full swing, with their handmade and brilliant costumes.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn28/30The fire pit next to the beach bar where guests congregated throughout the duration of the party.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn29/30Michael feeding me the first bite of our wedding cake.
Photo: Sabrina Lightbourn30/30A photo taken at twilight of our illuminated wedding from afar.
