Alistair Smallwood and model and designer Liv Rosewood met in London when they were just 23 years old, when she proverbially and literally knocked on his door, having been invited to a dinner party at his house by a mutual friend. “Our paths had never crossed until that moment,” Liv remembers. “We got on so well that I asked him to come on my family holiday to St. Barths that New Year’s as my fake boyfriend, so I’d have somebody to hang out with. We spent a lot of time together, and by the time the holiday came around, we were actually a couple.”

“I knew she was the one from the day I met her,” Alistair recalls. “So I did everything in my power to go from fake boyfriend to real.”

Although the St. Barth’s trip was canceled due to the pandemic, they eventually went on a holiday to Antigua as an official couple. That trip inspired the location for their wedding, and they would eventually return to the island to get married—albeit this time with all their family and close friends.

The proposal took place in September 2024, and Alistair accidentally gave himself away in the lead-up by telling Liv three weeks in advance that he wanted to go for a walk in Holland Park. “Considering we live in Notting Hill, we didn’t exactly need to plan that far ahead,” Liv jokes. “He also said he ‘had to go to the office later,’ which is why he woke me up at the crack of dawn to walk down Holland Park Mews before anyone else was around. We stopped outside the house where we spent lockdown in 2021, our first home together. It was there, in front of our old door, that he got down on one knee and said, ‘I’ve loved you since you walked through my door…’”

After the engagement, the couple started planning their wedding and found the process to be easy, fun, and low-key. “We knew from the start we just wanted it to feel like a holiday with the people closest to us,” Liv says. The vision was for it to be relaxed and deeply personal—and this applied to the bride’s fashion, too. “I have always had an eye for styling, and with plans to launch my own brand in the pipeline, nothing felt more authentically me than wearing my own designs,” Liv explains. “My mother had given me my great-grandmother’s 1930s bias-cut silk gown, and I knew instantly I had to wear it. Great granny was 5’1”, and I’m 5’11”, so it fell a little shorter on me, which made it absolutely perfect for dancing!”

The original plan was for Liv to wear it all day and for her to have a custom floor-length silk chiffon cape made to create some wind-blown drama walking down the aisle. “But just three weeks before the wedding, I realized the craftsmanship just wasn’t translating my vision at all,” the bride explains. “I knew the only way to make it happen was to do it myself. I had been roughly piecing together a crochet gown for the night-before event. It was very much a work in progress and far from finished, but I showed it to my maid of honor.”

Once Liv slipped it on and they pinned it together, they both screamed. “It was the dress I needed to walk down the aisle in,” Liv says. “I dove in right away, and it became a massive labor of love. It took countless iterations and reworking the fit, which meant lots of ordering my now husband to leave the house for hours at a time so I could keep making it! Working in the modeling industry, you get used to last-minute fittings and late nights, so literally sewing the finishing touches the morning of the wedding, actually felt very natural.”

To complete the look, Liv bought three meters of soft pink tulle and crafted a vintage-inspired Juliet veil. Because of the pivot, she no longer had a look to wear for the welcome drinks—but she did have some spare silk and appliqué fabric lying around. She’d already spent so much time making her wedding dress, why not continue the theme and make her night before dress, too? For the final touches, she wore meaningful family jewelry, but kept the accessories very pared back overall so as not to overpower the dress.

Alistair’s main priority was comfort, so he wore a breezy linen trouser and shirt set from Suitsupply. “One of my ushers, Max Seabold, who curates fine timepieces in London through his brand, Bravewater Watches, gave me the pick of the bunch from his collection,” the groom says. The bride got to borrow one, too. “My something borrowed and something blue was a stunning Tiffany Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36,” Liv says.

The laidback theme carried through to the couple’s save the dates, too, which were done in a postcard stamp style, and their invitations, which were custom Art Deco-style Antiguan postcards.

Their wedding was held at Catherine’s Café in Antigua on January 26, 2026, and they worked with the venue’s in-house team, Rocks Group, to orchestrate everything. The restaurant was the exact location where they first said “I love you” to each other, just a few days into their first holiday together. “Having our families there meant so much, as we’ve both spent a lot of time on the island growing up,” Liv says. “My mum even has a picture of me eating a pineapple at three years old in the exact spot where Al and I became husband and wife. Al also has so many fond memories of long lunches at Catherine’s and listening to what would one day become our wedding band, 1761 Degrees, in his teenage years. For it all to come together on our wedding day felt really special.”

The ceremony was set at the far end of Pigeon Beach. Instead of a traditional setup, they arranged the seating in a semicircle, and Liv walked barefoot down the sand towards Alistair. “As I started walking, the only person I could see was him,” Liv says. “It truly felt like it was just the two of us in the world. Then, as I reached the end of the aisle, all of our guests came into view from behind the trees, and suddenly it all felt so real.”

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