The service was led by Alistair’s best man, actor Stanley Morgan. “He delivered a perfectly balanced address that captured our personalities to a tee,” Liv says. “He centered it around the idea that we all exist at the intersection of order and freedom, which is us exactly, as I am the freedom and Al is the order!”
“I stood waiting for Liv down on the beach with my best men, just bursting with anticipation,” Alistair remembers. “The absolute second I caught that first glimpse of her walking toward me, all my composure just melted away, and I was instantly in tears.”
After the ceremony, the celebration kicked off with a cocktail hour on the beach accompanied by a steel band. Then guests sat down for lunch, which included speeches from two of Alistair’s four best men, Jack and James, followed by his own groom’s speech.
Being on a tropical island, Liv knew she wanted to go bold with the colors, so she sourced a colourful tablecloth with pinks and oranges. “I made Al hand-carry it to the island all the way from New York City,” she says. For the place settings, each guest had their name and a pop art version of themselves on the front of a postcard, and on the back, the couple wrote their favorite memory with them, along with their “questionable trait.” On the tables, fruit-focused centerpieces lent a relaxed island vibe to the decor.
“One of the best things we did was say yes to extra entertainment,” Liv explains. “At the last minute, we decided to have a magician, and it was the best idea. He was hilarious and so good! He kept pulling bunnies out of nowhere, and we somehow ended up with nine. Everyone was holding and feeding these little bunnies, and we genuinely couldn’t work out how he was doing it.”
Because they had been eating and drinking in the Caribbean sun all afternoon, Liv and Alistair knew everyone would eventually need a refresh. “So, at 6 p.m., we all changed into our swimwear and ran straight into the sea for a sunset swim,” Liv says. “It was absolute magic.” While everyone was in the water, Liv spontaneously decided to do her bouquet toss right there in the ocean. “It was hilarious,” she remembers. “Two of my girlfriends caught it together, and one of them actually got engaged just a month later!”
After the swim, they started a massive game of beach volleyball, and even some of the team at Catherine’s jumped in to play. As the sun went down, the newlyweds did their first dance to Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best.” “It started off slow and romantic, and then the band completely ramped it up, and everyone rushed the floor to join us,” Liv recalls. “The band was absolutely phenomenal. They brought so much electricity to the room. We spent half the night up there singing and dancing with them to our favorite songs, and we didn’t leave the dance floor until the very end!”
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