This Late-Summer Wedding Was Designed to Feel Like a Night in Italy

When Nada first met Beau, she says she could tell he was the life of the party, but also remembers thinking: “That guy is a lot.” Beau was determined to meet Nada from the moment he spotted her. Fast-forward a year and a half and he arranged for her parents and siblings to fly across the country to celebrate with them over dinner—after he proposed on a walk through Spokane’s Riverfront Park in Washington state.

Put together in just six months, their late-summer wedding was designed to feel like a night in Italy (Nada’s family owns the Italian Store gourmet shops in Arlington) and featured a yellow-and-green color scheme. A green Vespa and a blue three-wheeled Apé car, a few rustic touches, plus lemons and lemon trees galore helped set the scene. A cheese expert made fresh mozzarella during cocktail hour; dinner was all-Italian, from the antipasto platters and meatballs to pastas and the bride’s family’s pesto. A gelato cart, vanilla cake, and homemade Italian and Croatian cookies completed the menu. Beau says every guest from Spokane clapped and sang along when the goal song from his family’s hockey team out west started to play, and the T-shirt toss on the dance floor was another rowdy hit.

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Amy Moeller

Fashion & Weddings Editor

Amy leads Washingtonian Weddings and writes Style Setters for Washingtonian. Prior to joining Washingtonian in March 2016, she was the editor of Capitol File magazine in DC and before that, editor of What’s Up? Weddings in Annapolis.