For those who ask Andres Henriquez, he and Corina Lujan first met once they have been 18 at a buddy’s home. Corina, nevertheless, admits she has no such recollection. It seems she was preoccupied with another person she was courting on the time—a undeniable fact that devastated a smitten Andres, who had hoped to ask Corina for her quantity that very night time.

Quick-forward a decade, and the 2 met once more at Andres’s aunt’s birthday dinner in Madrid. It was removed from an opportunity encounter. “Unknown to us, his aunt had conspired for me to satisfy her nephew, Andres,” says Corina. “As soon as we arrived on the dinner, she particularly sat me down subsequent to Andres, regardless that everybody else was allowed to sit down wherever they wished, which was fairly embarrassing.”

Destiny did intervene, nevertheless, when Andres determined to go to Corina in Miami in March of 2020. The day he arrived, Europe closed its borders attributable to COVID-19 and he was unable to return residence to Madrid. “He ended up staying in my condo in Miami for 3 months, and now we have lived collectively ever since,” says Corina.

In April 2022, Andres proposed in Benidorm, a small city on the east coast of Spain. After dinner at a cliffside restaurant overlooking the ocean, they wandered all the way down to a abandoned seaside. Andres requested Corina what her favourite reminiscence was of the previous two years. When she couldn’t identify only one, she requested Andres the identical query. After reciting some recollections, he bought down on one knee. “That is probably the most particular second,” he mentioned. “Will you marry me?”

The 2 married in Madrid on Could 13, 2023. The Friday night time earlier than, they held a rehearsal dinner at Bibo by Dani García. A conventional Spanish dinner of croquetas and rabo de toro was a late-night dance celebration till the restaurant closed. Corina wore a backless halter costume by Elie Saab for the event, paired with gold earrings from her mom.

On Saturday, they held their ceremony on the Basílica de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a Sixteenth-century UNESCO World Heritage Website that’s the largest Renaissance constructing on the planet. The bride met the groom on the altar carrying a Monique Lhuillier costume and bolero. “It was all I wished: female, romantic, elegant, and, most significantly, snug,” she says of her costume.