sions the couple planned was the color scheme: Th ey settled on
green (Jada’s favorite color), blue (Sam’s favorite color), and pur-
ple (Jada’s late grandmother’s favorite color).

“We didn’t want the typical fall [colors] — maroon, champagne.”
Th ey kept it simple, excluding any other theme — “we had our
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs; we had our themes there,” she laughed.

“We just wanted it to be fun.”
Picking a DJ was easy, too, because Jada was set on one com-
pany before Sam even proposed.

Wired Up Entertainment, based in Wilmington, Del., where
Jada grew up, is owned by her close friend; they went to JCC day
care and grew up together.

Th eir cake was from Bredenbeck’s Bakery in Chestnut Hill: a
simple French dot and quilt design. Aft er hors d’oeuvres, guests
chose from either fi let mignon, chicken, salmon or butternut
squash ravioli.

Ryan Young Studio provided photography and videography.

Jada surprised herself while dress shopping. She wanted a fi t
and fl are, mermaid silhouette style — “to show off the wedding
diet body” — but ultimately chose a princess-style ball gown from
Sabrina Ann Couture in West Chester to fl atter her 5’2” frame.

It paired well with her late
maternal grandmother’s original
wedding veil, worn on July 3, 1949, as well as her choice of shoe,
a pair of Badgley Mischka gardenia pumps (her late maternal
grandmother’s favorite fl ower).

She changed into a shorter dress at the reception to dance in, a
sequin dress from Bernsteins Fashions in Edison, N.J., while Sam
wore a dapper tuxedo from Boyds Philadelphia.

“I was never the type of girl who dreamt of a big wedding
or wedding day,” she admitted, and neither did Sam. But he’s an
only child, and three of their grandparents are in their 90s, so
they decided to go all out.

Her favorite moment of the evening was seeing Sam’s reaction
when he saw her in her dress for the fi rst time. And aft er the
father-daughter dance, she surprised her grandfather with one,
too, to Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings.”
Since they returned back to their Washington Square home
aft er a honeymoon in the Galapagos Islands, they said married
life has been a breeze.

“We’ve been inseparable since the day we met,” she said. ❤
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