Choose venues for their flow<\/p>\n
During the planning process, Carter and Taylor made two trips to Portugal: one for a gut-check visit to the venues, on which they\u2019d already put down deposits, and one for menu tastings and other final vendor conversations. They did book the Penha Longa Resort, the place that had made their planner think of Sintra in the first place, and held all of their events within the property.<\/p>\n
While the convenience and historical significance of the venues were paramount, the spaces offered additional benefits. \u201cThey were beautiful\u2014that much is a given,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cBut the layout of the spaces could not have worked better for the vision we had of ushering people throughout the afternoon and evening, keeping them surprised and entertained.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their welcome dinner was held at the charming pink mansion, Casa Dos Penedos, while the wedding day was held around a monastery. The ceremony itself\u2014which was officiated by a friend\u2014was set within the crumbling, 16th-century, stone-walled Nuncio Gardens, built near the monastery and featuring ivy-covered stone walls, archways, and a shallow reservoir at the center. A cocktail hour following in the monastery courtyard and dinner in the Sala Dos Arcos, a dramatic space with a ceiling comprised entirely of archways. Dancing occurred in the Sal\u00e3o Nobre, a soaring salon with wall-to-wall carvings and a stunning carved-wood fireplace.<\/p>\n
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The reception dinner decor was kept simple to let the ornate details of the setting shine.<\/p>\n
Hugo Coelho<\/p>\n
Another view of the courtyard ceremony, which was set around a small pool of water.<\/p>\n
Hugo CoelhoKeep the aesthetic simple<\/p>\n
While their wedding venues were stunning in their ornate details, from the peacocks painted on the ceiling of the Casa Dos Penedos to the blue and white tiles along the courtyard, the couple wanted to go slightly cleaner and more masculine with the wedding decor they\u2019d be bringing in. \u201cThe brief was Ralph Lauren, late \u201890s, equestrian,\u201d says Carter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to compete with the setting and the property itself,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cWe wanted that to be more of a flourish in the last five to 10% of the design, and really let the spaces breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Choose venues for their flow During the planning process, Carter and Taylor made two trips to Portugal: one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[51671,9,24,63,9558,122,124,123,6496],"class_list":["post-335895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-couples","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-portugal","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}