She showed him her favorite spots around Paris, and they spent days walking around, getting lost, people-watching and drinking wine. They went to Le Champo, an art house theater, to see “An American in Paris.”
“That was the most radiantly happy I’d ever been in my whole life,” Mr. Bramesco said.
In October 2022, Mr. Bramesco took Ms. Whittle to dinner at Mominette, a French restaurant in Bushwick. After dinner, they returned to the bar where they’d had their first date. When they got home, he took her up to the roof of their apartment building. Through tears, overlooking the city skyline, he proposed. “I was grinning from ear to ear,” Ms. Whittle said.
They were married April 20 at the Dumbo Loft, an events space in Brooklyn, by Eva Bramesco, Mr. Bramesco’s sister, who received a one-day New York State officiant license.
The reception menu included cocktails with movie references — a mojito that nodded to a line from Michael Mann’s “Miami Vice” and a Kentucky Mule for Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule” — but they were wary of too many film references. “We didn’t want it to be cornball,” Mr. Bramesco said. “I don’t think we’re corny about film,” Ms. Whittle said. But, she added: “We’re corny about each other.”
In front of 94 guests, they danced their first dance to “This Will Be Our Year” by the Zombies. Nearly four years ago, Mr. Bramesco played it on the piano for Ms. Whittle on their first visit to his childhood home in Danvers, Mass.
“I was dazzled,” Ms. Whittle said, thinking back to the impromptu performance. “I was swept off my feet.”