Kamryn Beck is married!
The Dance Mothers alum, 24, tied the knot with Chandler Alenovitz on Aug. 10 at The Willows at Ashcombe Mansion in Mechanicsburg, Pa., surrounded by 130 family members. Beck tells PEOPLE that she and Alenovitz, who envisioned an “Italian backyard celebration” vibe for his or her big day, instantly fell in love with the venue — regardless of touring it for the primary time within the pouring rain.
“From the moment we drove up from the street, the atmosphere was extremely timeless and romantic,” she says of the historic Victorian mansion set on 22 acres of manicured and native gardens. “We knew that if we may love an area that a lot within the rain, if we had been blessed with good climate that it could be much more magical.”
To execute their imaginative and prescient of an “end-of-summer backyard celebration,” they included plenty of pops of yellow, from the bridesmaid clothes to décor accents that includes lemons. Occasion planning and floral design firm Burke & Poppy created extravagant floral buildings and tablescapes to set the elegant scene.
The couple’s prime precedence for his or her wedding ceremony was together with their family and friends within the expertise. “Regardless of the place we had been within the planning course of, we envisioned them with us as we dreamt up each element,” Beck says. “We wished to be surrounded by the individuals we love most, have a great time, and simply really feel the love throughout.”
Although she admits that pulling collectively the occasion had its hectic moments, she praises Alenovitz, a advertising communications specialist for a bioscience firm, for conserving her “grounded” all through the method by reminding her, “It’s our day, we’re marrying one another and nothing else issues.”
Beck says, “We knew that the day was going to come back and go, and we’d miss it when it was gone, so we tried to absorb each bit that we may.”
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Their households stepped as much as assist in a giant manner, together with Beck’s mother, who used the abilities she honed stitching her daughter’s dance costumes to hand-make linen floral napkins for the marriage. “It was so particular having a bit of her magic with us,” the previous actuality star says.
Forward of their ceremony, Beck and Alenovitz privately shared handwritten vows with one another throughout a primary look, and later recited conventional vows in entrance of their visitors. The bride walked down the aisle to “I will Be” by Edwin McCain, carrying Made with Love’s “Cameron” dress, that includes a plunging neckline, figure-hugging skirt and low V again. Tulle bows on the shoulders, intricate hand-beaded accents and 3D lace particulars added a contact of glitz and drama.
“I felt elegant, angelic, refined. It was good, and I couldn’t image myself carrying the rest,” Beck recollects of her bridal look, which was enhanced with pure, glowy make-up carried out by MUA Enna.
A lifelong buddy of Beck’s household officiated the ceremony, and Alenovitz’s sister, who served as matron-of-honor, had the distinction of declaring the couple husband and spouse. Whereas not all the things went completely to plan, Beck says it solely made the second that rather more particular.
“We tousled phrases, we laughed, we cried and most significantly had been us. It felt so actual and genuine,” she tells PEOPLE.
Following the ceremony, Beck and Alenovitz celebrated with their family members at a reception, that includes stay violin music (by Luke J. Hughes) — one thing Beck at all times dreamed of getting at her wedding ceremony. The couple and their visitors loved a plated dinner, catered by JDK, with a menu together with penne alla vodka with airline hen breast and steak and frites. Dessert was slices of the three-tier marble vintage-style wedding ceremony cake, together with cannoli chips and dip.
The newlyweds shared their first dance to the Justin Bieber hit “Lifetime,” and Beck additionally did a father-daughter dance along with her dad. Then got here a particular shock for her mother.
“All of my sisters danced with our mother at their weddings. I needed to preserve the custom going, so I stunned her with our particular track,” Beck explains. “My mother means the world to me, and our relationship is like no different. She’s my finest buddy, really. To honor our shut bond, we invited all the mother-daughter pairs in attendance to affix us midway by means of.”
She provides of the emotional second, “There was not a dry eye within the room!”
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Trying again on her wedding ceremony, Beck tells PEOPLE the expertise was “an absolute fairytale” from begin to end.
“The climate was attractive and the solar was shining vivid for us. All the day felt straight out of an early 2000s rom-com, and we had been blown away by how all the things got here collectively so fantastically,” she says. “Having all the individuals we love probably the most in the identical room with us was a sense like no different. It was higher than our wildest desires.”
Beck and her now-husband first met by means of a mutual buddy in 2019 and spent six months slowing attending to know one another earlier than making their relationship official in August of that 12 months. “We each knew that this relationship was particular and wished to ensure that we had been being intentional, and constructing a friendship basis earlier than taking the following step. We knew as soon as we began, it was going to final,” Beck says.
Alenovitz popped the query on Christmas Day in 2021 within the yard of his household dwelling. “There was nobody else round, simply him and me,” Beck recollects, explaining, “We’re a really private couple and wished to have a really intimate second that was fully targeted on simply us. He deliberate and created the proper second.”
Now, Beck says she and her husband are wanting ahead to a brand new chapter collectively crammed with plenty of journey and different adventures. “We wish to take a couple of years simply to be us and take in each little bit of married life,” she tells PEOPLE. “Chandler has at all times and continues to carry out the most effective in me, and we’re so excited for a lifetime of rising, difficult and provoking one another.”
Befitting their Italian-inspired wedding ceremony, the couple has deliberate a 10-day honeymoon to Switzerland and Italy to rejoice their newly married standing.
“We’re beginning our journey in Grindelwald, Switzerland, adopted by a couple of days exploring the villages of Lake Como. Taking a fast pitstop in Florence, and ending our time within the hills of Tuscany,” she says of their itinerary.
Marriage ceremony bells will quickly ring for 2 different Dance Mothers alums, as each Brooke Hyland and Kalani Hilliker not too long ago introduced their engagements.