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Ashley Young
& Andrew Trowbridge
This East Coast girl and California guy met through a mutual
friend in 2006, and have been inseparable since. After just two weeks of
dating, the couple says they knew they had found “the one” and family
introductions began. The couple was tested early on in their relationship,
as Ashley Young’s family endured two tragic deaths within months of one
another. “Andrew was amazing and extremely supportive, and I knew I
had found someone special,” she says.
The groom-to-be, Andrew Trowbridge, proposed a year and a half
later, on a birthday trip to Cozumel to celebrate Ashley’s 28th. “I knew
something was up because Andrew is the calm one in our relationship and
he could not sit still. Of course I didn’t know it at the time, but the reason
he was fretting was because it was raining, and he planned on proposing at
the beach,” Ashley recalls. After dinner the weather cleared and the groom
got his wish: a bended-knee proposal in the sand where he presented
Ashley with a 2-carat antique platinum ring.
The bride’s family threw the couple a surprise engagement party in
Rhode Island, where they summer each year. During the party, Andrew
ate an amuse-bouche with an edible flower on it, and shortly after began
showing signs of an allergic reaction and was rushed to the hospital.
“From that moment on it’s a running joke about how Andrew, a big
strong engineer who goes offshore in the craziest and most remote areas of the world, got taken down by a flower,”
Ashley laughs.
The bride, an event planner who moved from Connecticut to Montecito to finish school, and the groom, who
moved to Santa Barbara from Santa Rosa to attend UCSB, planned a Black Tie wedding at Coral Casino on June 27,
2009. The wedding party was made up of close friends and family, including the couple’s siblings.
Inside the reception room, large magnolia trees highlighted with hanging tea lights were placed between the tables,
and the ocean-blue color
palate adorned the tables,
bringing the aura of the nearby Pacific inside. In addition to a
surf-and-turf dinner, guests were treated to a dessert buffet, where
they were given to-go boxes to save treats for later. Later in the
evening, sliders, French fries, and mini milkshakes were passed
around for the dancing crowd to regain their energy.
The day after the wedding the couple traveled to Anguilla in
the Caribbean for two weeks of scuba, snorkeling and sailing; they
now live in southern California and travel to the family’s vacation
home in Montecito every month.
Photo Credit: Melissa Musgrove, Coordinator: La Fete Weddings
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