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Holidays in Spain

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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Hello loves, I felt it’s time to update the blog one last time before the New Year, and what better way than talking about what happened lately? We decided to fly to our vacation home in Spain and stay here for a month until we feel rested enough to go back to Sweden, That is, because we both got tired of the darkness in Sweden and the weather in Alicante area during this period is quite stable and warm, compared to the Scandinavian weather. Also because before and after the wedding we had so many deadlines, projects, stress into our lives that we really didn’t feel like stressing more with Christmas at home. The first thing I did when we arrived was sleep for 40 hours more or less. Day & night. Yes, that’s how tired I was. The plan was to rest, eat good food, train and when that’s ready, get some work done. BUT, our bodies didn’t feel the same. After a few days here I got a big bad flu with lots of sneezing, nose running, fever, and all that beauty. A few days after, Jonathan followed me with an even worse flu, or at least that’s how he describes it. The truth is, women hold on sicknesses better, am I right? And that’s how it’s been for 2 weeks now, time in which we didn’t train, nor eat good food, nor work. But we did rest. And because we got all the photos from the wedding just before Christmas, we had time to go through them, enjoy and re-live the moment. Also, we’ve been so much on Netflix that I now feel I’m done with all the good movies over there, is anyone else feeling the same?

Tomorrow we decided to go to Valencia for the next 2 weeks, to celebrate New Year and to finally visit one of the most beautiful cities in Spain. Most of this time will be spent working with my latest project, creating content in beautiful Valencia for Avery Milton, but also meeting with the super cool video production company Anker Prod. We rented a beautiful apartment in Cabañal, the area of Valencia where you can see how the locals live ( how dreamy!!! ) and can’t wait to stroll around the streets full of art, eat tapas and take photos of everything! I already have a list of to do’s for content and 2 very important personal bookings: 1 macrame workshop for myself and a tapas & wine tour with a local foodie!! How exciting is that?

I made a list of resolutions inspired from a Pinterest post and I’m thinking how fun would it be to share it with you so you can add your own stuff for Instastories? Here it is for you to download it, add text to it and share it with your friends! Don’t forget to tag me, I’m super curious of your resolutions: I’ll share mine on Instagram tomorrow!

It’s time to wish you all a wonderful night and the warmest Happy New Year!

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Our wedding video teaser has come – and we’re in LOVE with it!

01 Thursday Nov 2018

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Sneak Peek of Our Destination Wedding

26 Friday Oct 2018

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It has been 2 weeks since we have finally said YES to eachother and the emotions of the day are still all around us. I know it sounds like a clichee, but our wedding day was the most beautiful day of my life.

When we decided to get married, we knew we wanted a simple, yet sophisticated wedding, intimate, yet with all the people that are close to our heart, a wedding so slow, it allows us to enjoy every moment.

Everything we planned, came through. Well, almost! I know there are no perfect weddings and events, as well as no perfect relations, perfect lives or perfect people. And that was what we started with, if something don’t go as planned, we don’t look back, only forward. The last thing you need at your wedding is to see the wrongs. Trust me, it’s easy to find them even if you’re the only one who’ll see them.

The weather was perfect, sunny as we’ve prayed for so much! We had a few days of terror, as rain was announced almost every day. But in the end, the day of the wedding and the days before were absolutely fabulous!

We have been blessed with the most amazing team of professionals, our wedding planners and designer Paloma Cruz and Eugenio, the incredible video team Anker Prod and the amazing photographer Marcos Sanchez. Moreover, my friend and talented photographer Sofia Beijer from Noor Studio in Jönköping, joined us for our trip and destination wedding and followed every moment of our wedding with her camera!

Both Sofia and Marcos sent us a few sneak peeks and I couldn’t resist sharing some of the photos here on the blog. They’re just simply amazing!  (I still can’t wait for the whole gallery and the video which will come in a few weeks!) Enjoy!

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Hardest decision I ever had to make – Wedding location

19 Thursday Jul 2018

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altea wedding, bröllop, costa del sol, wedding in spain

It’s been a long time I have writing anything here, and oh, how much I missed it. But life has got in the way, with lots of projects, a new startup brand and school at the same time.

But now I have something really exciting to write about and since it’s July and time is plenty, I thought of sharing the story of the hardest decision I had to make in my entire life.

Ever since last year, when in July, during our Positano trip, J and I engaged, we’ve been thinking how and where to plan our wedding. We established that we’ll be doing a destination wedding since all my family is in Romania, and his in Sweden. It felt like the right decision, a natural one. But which destination? My dream has always been to have an outdoor wedding with a view. If possible, a view over the sea. So Amalfi felt like the natural choice, since that’s where we engaged.

But after asking for offers from Swedish wedding planners, googling around for the best location, we noticed that if we wanted a wedding in a dreamy location we had to wait tooooo long for a free spot during the oh so tight wedding schedule in Amalfi’s best locations.

So after thinking a few more months about where to say YES, we felt why not doing it in Spain, where the weather is always nice, food is also amazing, wine is at its best and people always happy? And since our family vacation house is located in the South of Spain, we’d had access to plan our wedding closely at all times.

We’ve once visited this little village called Altea, near Alicante, a romantic and genuine pearl on the Costa del Sol of Spain, with fabulous views from the top of the hills. So we thought, that’s the place!

It has been a long trip from that decision to the actual decision. First I googled for wedding planners and amazing locations in Altea and surroundings and I found NOTHING on my taste. So I went to my dear Instagram and looked for hashtags and locations, and through a deep Insta-trip, I managed to find the most amazing and talented wedding planners.

I never really knew the value of having professional event planners like I know now. So grateful!

So after closing the contract with them, and choosing a few locations they recommended us to look at, we booked a flight to Alicante. Paloma and Eugenio, our wedding planners, joined us in visiting 4 perfect locations and that’s when the crazy brainstorming started!

All the places had their charm and beauty.

One was an absolutely fabulous authentic (but luxury) villa where we could sleep, enjoy and have the wedding at. It didn’t work out because everyone wouldn’t fit in, and we didn’t want to leave anyone behind.

Another was a cute hotel complex where all guests could have their rooms and the wedding could be at the same place. Fabulous views for the ceremony but…it didn’t click with us.

We’ve also visited a fabulous finca with garden in San Juan (close to Alicante), Jardines d’Abril which was omg!!! but we felt the place was a bit too big for our number of guests and could look a bit empty.

And last but not least, we’ve visited our final choice! Actually, it was the place we found on Instagram before we even decided to marry in Spain. And it was the first visit of the day. So our heart might have been already stolen by it, so not really fairplay to the other locations, but oh well..

We had made our decision in one week after we visited all places. Not an easy one. On one hand, we wanted to have a slow wedding at a villa, kind of like a real destination wedding. To wake up with my friends and family and hang at the pool for a few days including the wedding morning, before we all prepare…

On the other hand, the thought of having both families together didn’t really make us feel…relaxed. Some family members don’t have a common language, like English, some have kids, some don’t, some want to have their own vacation (we love the fact that everyone gets vacation at our wedding!!!). It just felt like it wouldn’t work in our case with a solution like that.

And also, Marques de Montemolar, our choice, is just too amazing not to dream yourself up there on the top, saying yes to the man you love.

See the photos in my latest Instagram post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlbGn8WHQjg/?taken-by=bylorellay

 

 

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