Lucie Lott mentioned she knew she would marry Eladio Fabregas even earlier than the 2 had spoken.
Their paths first crossed in September 2021 exterior the cafeteria at Samford College in Homewood, Ala. Ms. Lott, now 22, was beginning as a freshman, and Mr. Fabregas, 25, who goes by Lalo, was a junior.
“We did a triple take,” Ms. Lott recalled. “I keep in mind telling my roommate proper after that I had met my future husband.”
Mr. Fabregas, a local of Galicia, Spain, got here to the US on a tennis scholarship. Throughout that temporary encounter, Ms. Lott seen he was carrying a shirt for Samford’s tennis crew. She discovered his picture and title on the crew’s roster and despatched him a message on Instagram that very same day.
“I requested if it was him who I had seen earlier,” she mentioned.
“I replied, ‘Sure, I believe you’re the stunning woman I seen,” he mentioned. “I hate texting and messaging and requested if I might name her.”
That first name led to a primary date, throughout which ice cream and stargazing on a hilltop adopted dinner at a neighborhood pizzeria.
The evening virtually didn’t occur. Mr. Fabregas mentioned that he had toyed with the thought of canceling for concern of falling in love. “I used to be so taken with Lucie and knew that if we went out, we might get severe,” he mentioned. “I used to be younger, within the nation on a scholarship and right here to make it. A part of me thought {that a} relationship could be distracting.”
Regardless of his hesitation, Mr. Fabregas caught to the plan, which had Ms. Lott choosing him up in her automotive from Samford’s tennis middle after apply.
“I gave him a hug when he got here out and informed him that I used to be excited to see him,” Ms. Lott mentioned. “From then on, we talked nonstop and shared our objectives and completely different upbringings.”
Ms. Lott grew up on a 250-acre horse farm, Augustus Hill, in Paris, Ky. The property hosts occasions and has been used for vogue shoots for manufacturers like Peter Millar. She graduated from Samford with a bachelor’s diploma in advertising and marketing and mass communications and now runs Augustus Hill’s occasions enterprise remotely.
Mr. Fabregas has a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise and an M.B.A. from Samford. He’s a monetary analyst on the non-public fairness agency Regent in Beverly Hills, Calif., the place the couple at present resides.
After that evening, the pair was inseparable. “We studied, ate, exercised and loved each little bit of free time collectively,” Mr. Fabregas mentioned.
Early on of their relationship, he accompanied Ms. Lott to her household’s trip house in Santa Rosa Seaside, Fla., introducing him to her mom, Diane Lott.
“My mother made sangria and served Spanish olives to deliver a bit of of Lalo’s background to the night,” Ms. Lott mentioned.
Within the fall of 2022, Mr. Fabregas requested Ms. Lott to accompany him on a visit to Galicia to fulfill his household.
“I used to be overwhelmed and nervous,” she mentioned. “They didn’t actually converse English, and I don’t converse Spanish, and I wasn’t positive how all the interpretation would work out. However his dad and mom greeted me with hugs and had been real and heat.”
Mr. Fabregas’s and Ms. Lott’s courtship continued over the subsequent few years. When Mr. Fabregas completed the M.B.A. program and obtained employed for the monetary analyst job in California, Ms. Lott relocated with him and switched to Samford’s on-line program till she graduated.
Earlier than transferring, the couple made their annual journey to go to Mr. Fabregas’s dad and mom in Spain.
“Lalo informed me that he wished so as to add on a weekend getaway to an island referred to as La Toja for some solar and leisure,” Ms. Lott mentioned. “I knew that he was going to suggest in some unspecified time in the future, and when he talked about the journey, I used to be positive that it will occur then.”
Nevertheless, rain interfered with Mr. Fabregas’s plans. “I used to be going to ask Lucie in entrance of a church that’s made out of seashells,” he mentioned. “However when the drops began coming, I postponed.”
The next morning, on June 1, 2023, Mr. Fabregas and Ms. Lott returned to the church and he introduced her with a center-cut diamond ring embellished with two shield-cut diamonds.
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On June 15, the couple wed at Augustus Hill earlier than 160 friends, together with Ms. Lott’s grandfather, Trent Lott, the previous Senate majority chief, in addition to a number of members of Mr. Fabregas’s household from Spain.
Hunter Bates, a detailed pal of Ms. Lott’s household and a former chief of employees to Senate minority chief Mitch McConnell, officiated. He was ordained by Christian World Outreach Ministries.
Ms. Lott, carrying a lace Monique Lhuillier gown, arrived on the altar along with her father, Chet Lott, in an open-air, wicker horse carriage as a harpist performed Pachelbel’s Canon.
Mr. Fabregas was wearing a European morning go well with from Stuart Mercer Gentleman’s Shoppe in Lexington, Ky.
On the reception, an alfresco sit-down dinner included Kentucky beef and Spanish paella. A dance social gathering adopted with an Ibiza nightclub theme.
“The day was a becoming a member of of two distinct cultures,” Mr. Fabregas mentioned. “And a mirrored image of our relationship.”
