Roberto Asís and Pamela García de Asís were never going to have a traditional wedding. But no one expected three. The first one just happened in Cartagena, Colombia, with two dresses, red cowboy boots, white flux and a disco ball.

‘Our wedding was scheduled to be in Cartagena, where we are from, in December 2020,’ explains Pamela, a well-known stylist who now lives between Miami and Bogotá. 'We postponed it -because of the pandemic- and decided that we should celebrate this in different ways: something for our closest ones at Rob's grandmother's house, something for us in Las Vegas, and something for everyone in the old town of Cartagena. '

Despite the fact that they grew up living across the street from each other in Cartagena, a city that Pamela describes 'like a handkerchief', because of its smallness, Roberto and Pamela met one day while working in Miami at the end of 2017, on a filming for a store of his that sold handicrafts called Ciénaga. “Rob was the photographer and I was the stylist,” says Pamela. "He asked me if I wanted to go to a Chinese hole-in-the-wall for dinner, I said yes, and the rest is history, I guess," he says as if he doesn't believe he just got married.

Two years later, Roberto proposed to Pamela during a Christmas dinner in 2019 at his favorite Cartagena restaurant, La Vitrola. There were three engagement rings: 'A solitaire, a vintage emerald cocktail ring and a family heirloom'. In addition to working as a stylist, Pamela is also a creative consultant for brands, many of them based in Colombia. Pamela describes Roberto as a true renaissance man. Those aren't his words, these are: 'He works in everything from hospitality to fitness to fintech.'

Now they could add, both of them and without anything left inside, the role of influencers to their LinkedIn. His Instagram account, @AsisDeAsis, a gift from Roberto to Pamela when they got engaged, portrays the way they share all the items in their closet. This has earned the attention of thousands of people.

I ask Pamela when she plans to wear the red cowboy boots that Roberto wore on the day of the civil wedding: 'I already stole them,' she says with a laugh. "We don't have separate closets, everything is together in one."

In a more traditional scenario, eyes would be exclusively on Pamela on her wedding day, but we already know that this was not the case. A bespoke white linen suit by emerging Colombian brand Aguel, éliou jewelry and Off-White red cowboy boots emblazoned with 'FOR WALKING' made up the groom's look.

The bride, with her natural hair and makeup, donned 'that' Jacquemus dress. The one worn by the Argentine model Mica Argañaraz in the spring 2021 parade, an hour from Paris, surrounded by ears of wheat, in the middle of last year.

Pamela admits that Simon Porte Jacquemus is one of her favorite designers of all time, 'I saw the dress from the L'Amour collection online and knew this was it. We hadn't even set an official date yet.

In the middle of the night, Pamela changed into a dress she commissioned from her childhood friend and emerging designer Estefanía Alvarez. She originally had it ready for her wedding in Las Vegas, but in the penultimate fitting she changed her mind. ‘I remember we would go crazy during testing so that the wings on my shoulders would go higher and higher. Estefanía made it a reality with the most exquisite silk organza. I always wanted the super extra mini party dress, to combine with René Caovilla's Galaxia de Swarovski knee-high sandals. When they found out that the dress was going to Roberto's grandmother's house, they lengthened it a bit. It's an old lady.

‘We wanted to achieve an exaggerated structure, which at the same time had movement to create drama,’ says Estefanía Alvarez from Colombia. The designer also made the dress for Glenda, Pamela's mother, a shirt dress in chocolate gazar organza, with a sash that accentuated her waist. "Pam chose my outfit," continues Alvarez, "a dress from our second collection, our Marea dress in lavender linen."

The ceremony at the groom's grandmother's house was really intimate and 'old school,' according to Pamela. To pay homage to the groom's Lebanese origins, they exchanged a deposit, to symbolize prosperity in the union. It was carried out under a huge disco ball, with the groom's bridesmaid and brother as witnesses. Today the bride and groom wear the coins around their necks.

Immediately after the ceremony, a replica of Elvis and Priscilla Presley's six-tier wedding cake arrived lit by sparklers. They did the first dance to Elvis' 'Can't Help Falling in Love' as the disco ball spun and fireworks lit up the sky. That was followed by a full-blown party: Lebanese food, reggaeton, groove music, salsa and son.

Nane Miller, a friend of the bride and groom, says that at one point in the middle of the party she was dancing, and when she turned towards Roberto's grandmother's house she saw the bride and groom surrounded by their entire family, 'this is a Very sixties-seventies house, with very long horizontal windows. That image, of them framed, looked like something out of a movie. I never forget her'.