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Blakely and Trehy
Oh, What a Night
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by Laura Zolman Kirk by Riley MacLean Photography & Megapixie Photography ESSICA BLAKELY AND JP TREHY MET IN high school: JP was a lacrosse player at Jordan High while Jessica, who goes by Jessi, was a photography student at Durham School of the Arts. “He used to ride his bike past my house a lot,” Jessi jokes. Their paths led them to separate colleges, however, then on to Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., respectively, for a few years, but the two reunited when they moved back to Durham around the same time. Soon, Jessi and JP were an item again, and in February 2014, when the couple was on vacation in Mexico, JP asked Jessi to marry him. For this local love story, Durham made the ideal backdrop for the pair to exchange vows on a “balmy 75-degree day in December [2015],” Jessi says. The ceremony and reception, which Grace Beason of Grace Leisure Events helped plan, were held at The Rickhouse with food provided by Durham Catering Co. Jessi’s bridal look came together thanks to vendors like Tre Bella for flowers, hair by A Go-Go Salon, makeup by Tiwa Lawrence, and belt and hair comb by Thea Bloch-Neal of Hushed Commotion. Jessi is still struck by the moment after the wedding party – consisting of Amy Blakely, Kelly Clark, Lisa Nestor, Jenna Bauer, Nolan Trehy, Drew Massey, Will Denton and Trevor Snell – entered the ceremony: “Hearing Miles [Andrews of Big Fat Gap] and Jeff Stickley [of Hammer No More the Fingers] playing ‘All of Me’ as I walked down the aisle was an amazing moment,” she says. The couple has since relocated to Charlotte where JP works at Red Ventures and Jessi has continued her formerly Durham-based photography business, Jessica Arden Photography.
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