The Bride Wore Her Own Dress Design To Her Barefoot Beach Wedding In Antigua

The original plan was for Liv to wear it all day and for her to have a custom floor-length silk chiffon cape made to create some wind-blown drama walking down the aisle. “But just three weeks before the wedding, I realised the craftsmanship just wasn’t translating my vision at all,” the bride explains. “I knew the only way to make it happen was to do it myself. I had been roughly piecing together a crochet gown for the night-before event. It was very much a work in progress and far from finished, but I showed it to my maid of honour.”

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Once Liv slipped it on and they pinned it together, they both screamed. “It was the dress I needed to walk down the aisle in,” Liv says. “I dove in right away, and it became a massive labour of love. It took countless iterations and reworks of the fit, which meant lots of ordering my now husband to leave the house for hours at a time so I could keep making it! Working in the modelling industry, you get used to last-minute fittings and late nights, so literally sewing the finishing touches the morning of the wedding actually felt very natural.”

To complete the look, Liv bought three metres of soft pink tulle and crafted a vintage-inspired Juliet veil. Because of the pivot, she no longer had a look to wear for the welcome drinks – but she did have some spare silk and appliqué fabric lying around. She’d already spent so much time making her wedding dress, why not continue the theme and make her night before dress, too? For the final touches, she wore meaningful family jewellery, but kept the accessories very pared back overall so as not to overpower the dress.

Alistair’s main priority was comfort, so he wore a breezy linen trouser and shirt set from Suitsupply. “One of my ushers, Max Seabold, who curates fine timepieces in London through his brand, Bravewater Watches, gave me the pick of the bunch from his collection,” the groom says. The bride got to borrow one, too. “My something borrowed and something blue was a stunning Tiffany Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36,” Liv says.

The laidback theme carried through to the couple’s save the dates, too, which were done in a postcard stamp style, and their invitations, which were custom Art Deco-style Antiguan postcards.

Their wedding was held at Catherine’s Café in Antigua on 26 January 2026, and they worked with the venue’s in-house team, Rocks Group, to orchestrate everything. The restaurant was the exact location where they first said “I love you” to each other, just a few days into their first holiday together. “Having our families there meant so much, as we’ve both spent a lot of time on the island growing up,” Liv says. “My mum even has a picture of me eating a pineapple at three years old in the exact spot where Al and I became husband and wife. Al also has so many fond memories of long lunches at Catherine’s and listening to what would one day become our wedding band, 1761 Degrees, in his teenage years. For it all to come together on our wedding day felt really special.”

The ceremony was set at the far end of Pigeon Beach. Instead of a traditional set-up, they arranged the seating in a semicircle, and Liv walked barefoot down the sand towards Alistair. “As I started walking, the only person I could see was him,” Liv says. “It truly felt like it was just the two of us in the world. Then, as I reached the end of the aisle, all of our guests came into view from behind the trees, and suddenly it all felt so real.”

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 centred 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 colours, 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 favourite memory with them, along with their “questionable trait.” On the tables, fruit-focused centrepieces lent a relaxed island vibe to the decor.

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“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 6pm, 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 favourite songs, and we didn’t leave the dancefloor until the very end!”