Baltimore Bride – July 2019

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pyebaek ceremony to accompany the

rehearsal dinner at Gunther & Co. the day

before the wedding.

Anywhere else, such a drawn-out cel-

ebration, which featured stops in Cock-

eysville, Canton, and Homewood, would

have been a logistical nightmare, the

couple says. “Being able to be near Nina’s

home, being able to rent a restaurant,

being able to have a venue, it was all a bit

more cohesive in Baltimore than in New

York, where things are generally a bit more

hectic and harder to pull off,” says Choi.

“Baltimore is small enough that down-

town and Canton are really just right next

door to each other. They weren’t far at all

from the Airbnbs, and Cockeysville was

only a 20-minute Uber away. It felt like

we had all of Baltimore available to us,”

Sheth adds.

Additionally, the couple found that

Baltimore’s central location in the Mid-

Atlantic, proximity to D.C. and Philadel-

phia, and variety of transportation options

made it convenient for out-of-town guests.

“I had a lot of family coming from India

and from France, Chris had a lot of family

coming from Korea, and in terms of hotels

and just thinking about where everyone

could stay, Baltimore wound up being sig-

nificantly more affordable than New York,”

Sheth says.

In fact, the couple found that guests

coming in from out of town made their

wedding weekend feel even more special.

“At first we were worried it would be a

burden for our guests, but it turned out to

be a really great way for all of them to get

to know each other and spend a lot of time

together,” Sheth reflects. “Having it be a

destination wedding in a city that people

might not otherwise go to was a good way

of getting people together and making a

whole weekend out of it.”

SAVING AND SPLURGING

When Leah Workneh and Adam Carmen

got engaged in October 2016, the couple

from Long Beach, California, wasn’t sure

where to get married. Workneh grew up in

Baltimore, Carmen hails from Ohio, and

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