Jessica, a stylish Brooklyn, New York native, who earns her living as a magazine editor, kept her look clean and unfussy for her big day.
“My makeup was done by Ashunta Sheriff. She tied in the overall color scheme and really highlighted by eyes, keeping my lips more nude, which I loved,” explains Jessica. “She did an amazing job at giving me a totally glam, timeless look that would stand up to the intense heat and humidity we had that day.”
Matt who teaches high school English in Astoria, Queens flashes his ring-less hand before he says, “I do.”
Jessica brags about her beau, “I knew very early on that he was going to be an amazing husband and father one day, just by the way he treated his mother and family.”
A cute Jessica walks down the aisle with her father.
“My father was actually really emotional. But I thought he would be more calm since he had already gone through it with my sister. Right before we walked out, he told me that I had made a really good choice with Matt,” she shares.
Jessica shares, “Those were the vows I wrote. I was so busy that I didn’t get around to actually writing them out, until a couple of hours before the wedding. I even did some of it in the limo on the way to the church. But, as I said when I read them aloud during the ceremony, that was a move that would make Matt proud.”
She adds, “He can be very carefree where as I am very organized and have to have a plan and a time and a place for everything! Writing the vows was somewhere in my schedule, but getting them on paper didn’t quite work out ahead of time.”
Jessica gives meaning to why they pose by the Manhattan Bridge.
“It represents the bridge we were building and crossing together—between the two boroughs, two lives. It also represented the place where we’d be starting our marriage since Matt, who is from the Bronx, was moving to Brooklyn. And of course, it’s just the most beautiful backdrop ever for a summer wedding in NYC,” Jessica says.