Cinco de Mayo Inspired This Couple's Wedding at Tenk West Bank in Cleveland, Ohio

For Clarissa and Weston's wedding, all things colorful, happy and bright were a must. Reams of ribbon and bushels of flowers later, that proved to be an understatement for the couple's Cinco de Mayo-themed celebration. The couple, who met while watching a Browns game at a New York City bar, wed in the groom’s hometown of Cleveland so that his grandfathers could attend. Clarissa, who hails from Texas, brought her Mexican heritage to Ohio via papel picado, a mariachi band and a traditional lasso ceremony.  Clarissa, wearing a beaded lace sheath, and Weston, in a bespoke cobalt tux, exchanged vows on Mexican serapes surrounded by bromeliads and gardenia bushes underneath a ceremony arch with ribbons and carnations. The couple filled the Tenk West Bank, once an iron foundry, with fuchsia orchids, peonies, ranunculus and ferns. “It was an explosion of color,” Clarissa says. The couple cut into an almond cake with salted caramel filling topped with a calavera (skull) bride and groom, traditionally used on the Day of the Dead. To finish off the night, Clarissa and Weston spun to “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis Presley before their families took to the dance floor, where Weston’s Italian-American family schooled everyone in tarantella folk dancing. A late-night taco truck revived hungry revelers, while Topo Chico kept them hydrated.