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By late afternoon on October 10, 2025, The Breakers had settled right into a quiet glow as visitors arrived for what seemed to be a traditional, intimate ceremony. Sarah Rollins Gonzalez and Richard Gonzalez had been married in entrance of 130 of their closest family and friends in a second that felt calm, centered, and deeply private. Nothing in regards to the room hinted at what was coming later that evening, when a shock set from DJ Steve Aoki would flip the ballroom into one thing nearer to a live performance than a reception.

Because the night unfolded, the tone started to shift. Music grew louder. The tempo picked up. Underneath chandeliers and sweeping floral installations, the celebration slowly gained momentum, constructing towards a late-night second that may remodel the room totally.

“I couldn’t commit to 1 theme,” Sarah says. “As a result of one theme couldn’t maintain each side of who we’re.”

Reasonably than selecting between intimacy and spectacle, Sarah and Richard designed a marriage that made room for each, honoring the seriousness of the dedication they had been making and the enjoyment of celebrating it absolutely and unapologetically.

The ceremony itself was intentionally quiet. Designed in smooth lotions, ivories, and golds, the house felt heat and composed, elegant with out extra. Mild mirrored gently off polished surfaces, florals softened the room, and eight black-tie violinists, elevated on suede-covered pedestals, stuffed the house with music that wrapped across the visitors moderately than competing with the second. Nothing in regards to the setting recommended that the identical room would later host a really totally different form of vitality.

“There was an nearly religious calm Sarah and Richard needed individuals to really feel,” says Justin Scalzo of YSD Occasions, who led planning and manufacturing for the weekend. “Every second, from the welcome dinner by means of the reception, was designed to really feel distinct, however linked by means of texture, mild, and restraint.”

For Sarah, that inward focus mattered. “Whenever you’re in love, you need to rejoice it,” she says. “However you additionally need to defend it. This a part of the day was about holding it sacred.”

That intention carried by means of to what they wore. After making an attempt lighter silhouettes, Sarah selected a {custom} Elie Saab robe that felt architectural and grounded, matching the burden of the vows. “It felt just like the Rolls-Royce of wedding ceremony robes,” she says. “Heavy in one of the best ways.” The evening earlier than, she wore a celebratory look by Carlos Mannings of Mannings Atelier for the welcome dinner.

Richard complemented her in a traditional Tom Ford tuxedo, understated and exact. Collectively, they stood on the middle of a ceremony that felt much less like a efficiency and extra like a promise, shared quietly with the individuals who knew them greatest.

Hair and make-up by Ariel Diaz and Amanda Maxwell emphasised softness and pure polish, whereas Birch Occasion Design layered each the ceremony and reception areas with florals and finishes that transition seamlessly later within the night, from refined to completely energized.

Although the couple briefly thought of a vacation spot wedding ceremony, they in the end selected Palm Seaside so practically everybody they beloved may very well be current. With 130 visitors and an attendance charge near 98 p.c, the celebration felt private moderately than sprawling.

“That intimacy modified all the pieces,” Richard says. “It allow us to design the expertise across the individuals, not simply the manufacturing.”

The smaller scale additionally created room for personalisation, permitting The Breakers’ culinary and occasion groups to ship extremely customized meals, service, and leisure moments that may have been unimaginable at a bigger wedding ceremony.

As daylight light and visitors moved into the reception, the change in vitality was delicate at first. The room didn’t flip suddenly. It constructed regularly, as if warming up for one thing greater.

Impressed by Miami at nightfall, that second when the solar disappears and the town lights come alive, the ballroom glowed beneath cloud-like florals and outsized crystal chandeliers woven into the blooms. The house felt looser, lighter, and charged with anticipation.

“What we needed,” Sarah says, “was that feeling of falling in love. The thrill, the construct, the heartbeat.”

Dinner unfolded like a sluggish rise. Music deepened because the evening progressed, setting the rhythm for what was coming subsequent. Saxophonist Al Sax, flown in from St. Barths and impressed by the couple’s favourite nights at Nikki Seaside, moved by means of the room, climbing onto custom-built tables designed not only for efficiency, however for interplay.

“One of the vital distinctive parts,” Justin notes, “was constructing tables with absolutely supported walkways. It allowed performers, and finally visitors, to step into the expertise.”

Leisure was curated by Elan Artists, with every musical second layered deliberately towards a late-night peak.

For the reception, Sarah and Richard turned into {custom} Chrome Hearts, an sudden selection that felt deeply private moderately than performative. The concept started months earlier in St. Barths, when Sarah found a uncommon pearl-and-diamond Chrome Hearts necklace, one among solely two in existence. A dialog with founders Richard Stark and Laurie Lynn Stark adopted, resulting in one thing unprecedented: the primary documented Chrome Hearts wedding ceremony robe, paired with a {custom} tuxedo for Richard.

“Somebody instructed us they’re probably not a model, they’re a household,” Sarah says. “A husband and spouse creating collectively. That mattered to us.”

Sarah’s corseted robe, completed with a prepare constructed for motion, stayed on for six uninterrupted hours on the dance ground. Richard’s look leaned into what Sarah calls his “glamorous bad-boy facet,” a distinction few visitors had seen earlier than.

“The ceremony was about our love story,” Richard says. “The reception was about celebrating it.”

The evening’s turning level arrived beneath the duvet of custom. Because the couple moved towards the cake, the room went quiet. Friends had been requested to show away. There was a pause, simply lengthy sufficient to really feel anticipation construct.