Lauren Caitlin Malone to Keith Paul Fisher
Photos by Gillette Portrait Arts
Chesapeake Bay Beach Club
November 1st
Bride & Groom: Caitlin, as she is known, is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker in Salisbury, where she was born and raised. Keith is an architect with Becker Morgan Group in Salisbury. He is a Philadelphia native, but his family has lived on the Eastern Shore for more than a decade.
The Engagement: Keith proposed on the dock of his parents’ home near St. Michaels at sunrise on Th anksgiving morning. He managed to get her out there at that hour by telling her it was a tradition that he watch the sunrise on this holiday morning. He’d never done it before.
The Dress: She had an idea of the type of dress she wanted and went to the bridal salon looking for a particular style. “Of course I left with something completely different,” she laughs. She found the Rivini-designed gown on her fi rst day of dress shopping.
The Venue: Caitlin agrees that the Eastern Shore has a nearly limitless selection of romantic wedding venues. “I think my mother and I looked at them all,” she says. Weather was her biggest concern. Since she’d chosen a November 1st date, she wanted a location that could accommodate
150 guests with outdoor and indoor options. It also had to have what she calls “a wow factor.” Chesapeake Bay Beach Club fi t the bill. CBBC even managed to “arrange” a 70-degree day in November. “I want to stress,” Caitlin tells us, “how amazing [Wedding & Events Manager] Teresa Hunter was in helping our day be perfect.”
The Ceremony: Dr. William Warren of the Allen Memorial Baptist Church in Salisbury officiated. Caitlin’s cousin and her best friend were her Matron and Maid of Honor. Keith’s brother was best man. His groomsmen included his dad.
The Reception: An all-evening open bar began with a cocktail hour in the Garden Room off ering an Eastern Shore Raw Bar as well as passed hors d’oeuvres of lamb “lollypops,” beef teriyaki satay, and mozzarella with grape tomatoes. Dinner began with shrimp cocktail and nuts and berries salad. Entrees were a choice of orange basil chicken and crab and avocado mahi mahi. After the last dance, as guests were leaving through the foyer, they were treated to a “happily ever after food station” off ering mini hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza (“This was a hit!” Caitlin remembers).
The Memories: Caitlin’s mother, Virginia Malone, singing her signature piece, “Unchained Melody.” And when Caitlin fi rst saw Keith as she came down the aisle. “Now we can get started,” she thought, with the wedding and the rest of their lives.
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