Peteche and Nicholas island-hopped across the Bahamas via plane for their unconventional, luxurious Bahamian wedding!
Peteche and Nicholas first connected through Instagram. After liking each other’s posts for a while, Nicholas gained the confidence to DM Peteche while she was vacationing in China. They messaged each other for weeks while they both traveled around the world and eventually set a day to go on their first date in the summer of 2017. For their first meeting, they went on a romantic boat ride from their home to Rose Island, Bahamas.
Since their first date was a boat ride, it was only fitting for the proposal to be another romantic boating affair! Nicholas proposed as New Year’s Eve fireworks filled the sky while they cruised around Nassau Harbour on a yacht with friends.
Peteche and Nicholas’s adventure-filled wedding was full of special, one-of-a-kind moments. From flying with their 200 guests from the ceremony location to the reception location, to eating KFC in the airport, and taking photos with their wedding party in a Tori Burch storefront window, their wedding embraced unconventionality and showcased Peteche and Nicholas’s personal styles, culture, and sense of adventure.
See the breathtaking details of their adventurous Bahamian wedding below!
- Couple: Peteche & Nicholas
- Occupations: Attorneys-at-law
- Wedding Date: April 21, 2023
- Wedding Locations: Christ Church Cathedral, Nassau, Bahamas |The Other Side, Eleuthera, Bahamas | The Rockhouse Resort, Harbour Island, Bahamas
Quick Facts:
- Wedding party gifts: Custom Harl Taylor straw bags, passport holders, and Biggity candles.
- Gifts for each other: Do Cartier wedding bands count?
- Ceremony Entrance song: “Ave Maria”
- First Dance Song: “Fly me to the moon”
How did you meet?
Where most millennials meet—Instagram! Having liked each other’s cheeky photos for a while, Nicholas gained the gumption to send Peteché a message while she was vacationing in China, a country he had lived in for one year. After weeks of digital pen pal-ing, while they both traveled the globe, they agreed to have their first date during the summer of 2017, a beautiful boat day at home to Rose Island, Bahamas.
Tell us about the proposal.
Another boating affair! As the fireworks went off at midnight on New Year’s Eve of 2022, Nicholas proposed to Peteché on a yacht that cruised the Nassau Harbour filled with friends in fancy dress and lots of champagne.
Wedding Style
Peteché’s dresses (all five of them) needed to make a statement. They had to be dreamy, classy, sultry, unique, and stop all traffic. For that, they made a trip with family to New York for the long Thanksgiving weekend, and after trying hundreds of dresses at different boutiques, we bought them all at Designer Loft Boutique. Peteché cannot recommend them enough! THE dress was a custom J’Aton Couture. On the other hand, Nicholas and his groomsmen went the bespoke route and had custom suites made by Mike’s Tailor in Nassau, Bahamas.
Did you incorporate any culture into your wedding?
Apart from insisting on a full Anglican mass, our wedding was very unconventional. One thing we made sure to have was a Bahamian junkanoo rush out. Junkanoo is a music, dancing, and costume parade that dates back to the history of slavery in the Bahamas. It is a commemoration of unity, celebration, and freedom, which you can feel vibrate through your veins as the cow bells shake, the trumpets blow, and the goat skin drums are beaten. It was very special to experience that bit of Bahamian culture again with all of our loved ones.
What is your favorite memory from your wedding?
Every single moment from leaving the cathedral to landing in North Eleuthera, Bahamas. With mere hours between the ceremony on one island and the reception on another, we had police escorts from downtown to the airport with a quick pitstop at Baha Mar to capture wedding photos. A few once-in-a-lifetime moments were had: taking photos in a Tory Burch storefront window, hiding behind a stall in the airport in our wedding gown and suit eating Kentucky Fried Chicken, and taking flight with 200 of our closest family and friends.
What is the best advice you can give to engaged couples?
If it does not feel right, don’t be afraid to pivot. And spa dates leading up to never hurt anyone.
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Vendors:
- Floral Designer: Wild Seeds Designs
- Dress Store: Designer Loft NYC
- Dress Designer: J’Aton Couture
- Bridesmaid dresses: Marchesa | Stella
- Location: The Other Side
- Photographer: Lyndah Wells Photography
- Menswear: Mike’s Tailor
- Bridesmaids dresses: Chic sew
- Hair: Morphed Brides by Tara Miller
- Makeup: Fierce Faces Ozia Bodie, BrushTouchMakeup by Fefe Felicia Rolle, Patacia Rhodriquez, Cody Fountain
- Shoes: Jimmy Choo
- Ceremony Venue: Christ Church Cathedral
- Reception Venue: The Other Side | Rock House Bahamas
