After being introduced to her at a mutual friend’s Super Bowl party in 2016, Rameez Khan sent a fateful DM to Libby Borders asking her out. She accepted, and a relationship quickly blossomed. Five years later, he asked yet another fateful question: “Will you marry me?” “We got engaged on my birthday in Napa,” Libby shares. “We were on a family trip, and Rameez planned a wine tasting at Flanagan Wines. After popping the question and enjoying some wine, we went back to celebrate with my family—and to my surprise, Rameez’s entire family flew in to be part of the celebration. It was a truly incredible day!” The Chicago couple was drawn to The Dalcy for their big day because it was a blank canvas they could completely transform to fit their vision—and what a vision it was. “Immediately, we knew we wanted color,” Libby says. “Rameez’s family is from Pakistan, and they are known for fabulous, colorful parties and weddings. We took that as inspiration, but [we] wanted to put our twist on it and make the wedding feel like a combination of our two cultures. I was intent on designing something that no one had ever seen before.” There were few hues not in their palette. “The more color, the merrier,” Libby says. And the brighter, the better.The couple enlisted Bianca Hall and her team at Estera Events to help curate the vision, but stayed involved every step of the way. “My mom was my planning partner in crime,” Libby says. “We are Type A planners, so we really embraced the planning and ended up having a ton of fun! She supported me in all my decisions and really wanted us to be happy and have the wedding of our dreams.” And that’s exactly what they got. Scroll down to see all the vibrant details of Libby and Rameez’s October 1, 2022, wedding, which was planned by Estera Events and photographed by Studio This Is.
