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Angela Beaudoin & Colby Cook
OceanCliff
March 27, 2009
Before heading to the Taste of Rhode Island Festival on September 30, 2007, Colby Cook had a very important question to ask his girlfriend, Angela Beaudoin - if he could convince her to take a walk with him and their two pugs. Nothing doing. Angela was ready to taste Rhode Island and had been waiting anxiously for her mother to arrive so the trio could head to the Newport Yachting Center. "I yelled at him and said, 'I am not going for a walk," Angela says. So Colby improvised, calling his impatient sweetheart into their bedroom and getting down on bended knee, engagement ring in hand. "Of course I said yes and then we just lay there in bed, smiling at one another." The festival could wait a few more minutes.
Angela and Colby started dating at Middletown High School, sealing their future with a kiss after a Friday night football game. The couple cultivated their love at Rhode Island College, and moved in together shortly thereafter. They chose Newport as their wedding destination because they grew up in the City-by-the-Sea: "We have spent all of our time in Newport experiencing its wonder," Angela says. "We wanted everyone to take advantage of what we have had our whole lives." OceanCliff played the quintessential host to this most singular of days, offering coastal ambiance for the ceremony and reception. "When we walked into the ballroom, Colby's mother started to cry," Angela says. "We knew we had made the right decision. No other place could even compare to OceanCliff's beauty."
Angela established an earthy green and purple color scheme in the table centerpieces, bouquets and boutonnières, and her five bridesmaids wore cascading Grecian gowns in deep purple chiffon. The couple kept it funky with a modern polka-dot theme weaved throughout the décor.
Colby and Angela's families are New England sports fans, so Colby presented the groomsmen with personalized Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox jerseys, complete with their names stitched on the back. Colby's three brothers had additional numbers stitched on the back to indicate their place in the sibling line, because their mother always refers to them as #1, #2, #3, and #4, Angela says.
After a post-wedding brunch at OceanCliff with their parents, Diane Beaudoin of Woonsocket, and Jay and Maureen Cook of Middletown, the couple headed to Alaska for a two-week honeymoon. The couple now lives in Middletown while Colby attends graduate school for graphic design at Suffolk University, and Angela works at Stillwater Spa at the Hyatt Regency Newport Resort & Spa.-RC |
