It was last April when Ana Cristina Portillolittle sister of the daughters of Bertin Osborne, announced very excitedly HELLO! your wedding with the industrial engineerl Santiago Camachoafter seven years of dating, and today, finally, the big day has arrived. The place chosen was the cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera, where the bride was baptized and received her First Communion and inside which her future husband was waiting for her, whom, as the bride confessed, she met “a long time ago” through his cousin Jaime. “Santi is very handsome, I love him and I appreciate him -laughs-, but I had to know him well as a person for me to like him, and it was as we saw each other and got to know each other more that I realized that I liked him” confessed the daughter small of the remembered Sandra Domecq.
© GTRESAna Cristina has trusted Jorge Acuña for her wedding dress made of airy fabric and inspired by classical Greece.
© GTRESFrom early in the morning, numerous onlookers occupied the vicinity of the cathedral, whose main porch has been decorated for the occasion with a beautiful arch of green plants, and which is, without a doubt, this beautiful temple. It has become the nerve center of the city. This majestic place, in Ana and Santiago They have summoned their around 400 guestsbegan as a collegiate church that Alfonso If on the outside its façade that combines neoclassical, Gothic and baroque elements is impressive, inside much of the attention is drawn to a canvas: ‘The Virgin Girl’, which he painted Zurbaran, which today had to “compete” with the beautiful decoration chosen by the couple.
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© GTRESThe 29-year-old designer, who, as we have previously noted, has arrived at the altar surrounded by great expectation and on the arm of her father and godfather, the businessman and photographer Fernando Portilloin whose Cordoba house The marriage proposal was held last Juneand he has done it wearing a Jorge Acuña dress inspired by classical greece, who, as Ana confessed, has not only acted as a designer but “also as a psychologist in my moments of indecision” since she, despite dedicating herself to the creation of fabrics, preferred to delegate this work to the Galician designer to “be able to enjoy the process.” without that extra pressure.”
Simplicity in its purest form, the bride has opted for a simple bun slightly tilted and quite polished to leave her face completely clear, a naturalness that has also been reflected in your beauty look opting for very subtle makeup in earth and brown tones and in which her look has been enhanced. To complete her bridal look, the bride has chosen some delicate white gold earrings with diamonds from the RABAT Diamonds collectionthe same brand that the bride and groom have chosen for the alliances with which they have sealed their love, belonging to the RABAT Always U collection, as well as elegant silver shoes from Stuart Weitzman. The bouquet, as it could not be otherwise, had a certain bohemian air and was composed only of white dahlias.
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© Leandro WassaulRadiant with happiness and delighted with the result of her styling, which, as the bride herself anticipated, was neither very classic nor very groundbreaking but very much her, Ana has always had the love and support of her family and friends who have crowded the Jerez cathedral with the loved ones of Santiago, as well as his particular “entourage” made up of his older sisters, Alejandra, Eugenia and Claudia Osborne and his nothing more and nothing less than 20 witnesses for whom, in the middle of their wedding preparations, he took time to paint the fabrics of their dresses. “It has been a very exciting process and, at the same time, stressful and even often frustrating, when I couldn’t capture what I wanted. Each design is unique and reflects the personality of the person wearing it, and that is what excites me the most.” declared the designer who has made her wedding a parade of colors and originality.
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© GTRESAnd although each of their particular “models” have lived up to such an important event It has been his sisters who have monopolized most of the spotlightshowing off with great love and care the fabrics created by Ana and to which each one of them has given her particular touch when creating each of her designs. In this way, Alejandra has been the most daring of all and has opted on this occasion for an ocher colored dress with a dandelion print with an original neckline and cut out in the abdominal area. Eugenia, a little more classic, has chosen an asymmetrical dress with a jasmine print, although if she has caught attention for something it has been for her daring change of a pixie cut that she has hidden by putting on a wide hat. Claudia, for her part, and like her sisters, has let herself be conquered by the countryside and nature and has opted for a dress in green, blue and yellow tones printed with pomegranates, also in silk crêpe de Chine fabric.
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© GTRESSantiago, for his part, has arrived at the doors of the cathedral on the arm of his aunt, who dressed in a midnight blue suit and mantilla, has acted as godmother after his mother died last Christmas, Reyes Rodriguez. The groom, for his part, has chosen an elegant black morning suit that he has combined with gray pinstriped pants, beige vest, sky blue shirt and red tie. Apparently calm, because as Ana progressed, he was always in charge of calming her nerves, he waited patiently for his future wife, who unlike other brides did not wait long – about twenty minutes – and made her entrance into the room. the temple with a broad smile, followed by her sisters and with all her guests standing to receive her. During the ceremony, only one reading was carried out, which was carried out by Claudia. Once the ceremony was over and after the ‘yes, I want’ had been said, the priest in charge of officiating the ceremony asked the attendees to remain in their seats so that the newlyweds could leave the temple through the aisle of the cathedral converted. as husband and wife before leaving the cathedral aboard a Mercedes.
“It was a super nice, beautiful and fun ceremony. It was cool because the priest has a lot of art. Bertín will now go straight to the banquet” said Alejandra excitedly after seeing her sister get married.
Ana Cristina, who until just over three years was an executive in a maritime transport company and who left everything for design, has surely had her mother in mind on this day, who died in 2004 due to cancer. “I will wear something that reminds me of her and not so much something of hers” Sandra Domecq’s daughter confessed to the microphones of HELLO.COM making it clear how present he has his mother in his day to day life.
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In fact, the place chosen to celebrate the wedding, as it could not be otherwise, has been the ‘Santiago’ farm, which belonged to his grandparents the winemaker Beltrán Domecq González and Ana Cristina Williamsin whose honor it is named. This place was for many years his mother’s house and, therefore, his, a place very close to his heart and that of his older sisters who also organized their weddings there. Located on the outskirts of Jerez de la Frontera, the property, which now belongs to the Ortiz Domecq sisters, has today become the best stage in the world in which to sing about love, family and friendship and in which to remember those loved ones who, although they are no longer here, will always remain in your memory.
