Felicia & Jesper: A yes beneath the cork oaks in Portugal

Some love stories begin with a glance. For Felicia, it was a pair of ocean-blue eyes across a dinner table. Six years later, she and Jesper said yes to each other beneath the cork oaks of a vineyard in Mafra, Portugal, surrounded by 120 Swedes, limoncello and jewelry from Nangi.

Above: Felicia and Jesper in the sun at the vineyard in Mafra, with Felicia wearing Nangi’s Swan East-West Oval Diamond Ring, Eternity Swan Diamond Band, Diamond Swan Tail Ring and Drop Diamond Pendant.

It started with palak paneer

Felicia and Jesper met through mutual friends at one of Jesper’s global dinners. Each time, he served food and drinks and played music from a different country. That evening, it was India.

“I still remember his ocean-blue eyes, long before I realized that I would share my life with him. It was like looking at a horizon I somehow already knew.”

They did not fall in love over palak paneer, though. That happened a few months later, at Jesper’s lemon-themed birthday party.

When life gives you lemons

Felicia discovered Nangi on Instagram long before she met Jesper.

“I fell for Nangi’s story right away, the love between the salty ocean of Sri Lanka and the sweet glacial water of Norway. It reminded me of my own family, and of our love of travel and adventure. Scandinavian minimalism and Sri Lankan colors. Different currents, yet the same ocean.”

Read more about Nangi’s story here

She bought her first rings seven years ago.

“They were meant to remind me that when life gives you lemons, you make limoncello. I have worn them every day since.”

More pieces have followed since then. And when Jesper proposed, it was, of course, with a ring from Nangi, the Swan East-West Oval Diamond Ring.

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A wedding beneath the cork oaks

Six years after that first dinner, Felicia and Jesper gathered 120 Swedes at a vineyard in Mafra, north of Lisbon. Before the wedding, they threw a limoncello party. After all, lemons had been with them from the very beginning.

Above: Felicia and Jesper surrounded by 120 Swedes, with Felicia wearing Nangi’s Swan East-West Oval Diamond Ring, Eternity Swan Diamond Band and Diamond Swan Tail Ring on her hand. Photo by @adois_photography

“From there, the wedding became a sea of people, music and laughter. It still feels almost too good to be true. We are so grateful to everyone who traveled so far to be there with us.”

The guests took over the vineyard for the entire weekend.

Above: A sea of people, music and laughter at the vineyard. Around her neck, Felicia wore Nangi’s Drop Diamond Pendant, her morning gift from Jesper. Photo by @adois_photography

Something old, something new, something blue

Felicia got married wearing Nangi on her fingers and around her neck. On her hand, she wore the Swan East-West Oval Diamond Ring with a 1.00 carat lab-grown center diamond, together with the Eternity Swan Diamond Band and the Diamond Swan Tail Ring, all in 14 K yellow gold.

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Like many brides, she followed the tradition of something old, something new and something blue. The blue was a sapphire ring from Nangi, the old was a ring she had been given by her mother, and the new was the necklace.

Read more about the history of the sapphire here

“We received so many compliments on both the rings and the necklace.”

Above: Felicia and Jesper on their wedding day, with Nangi’s Swan East-West Oval Diamond Ring, Eternity Swan Diamond Band and Diamond Swan Tail Ring in 14 K yellow gold on Felicia’s hand. Photo by @adois_photography

A drop that can turn the tide

The necklace was Jesper’s morning gift to Felicia on their wedding day, a Drop Diamond Pendant in 14 K yellow gold.

Read more about the morning gift tradition here

“After all, we are made of water, and even the smallest drop can turn the tide.”

Felicia says it best herself:

“I think I am hooked for life, on both my Nangi jewelry and Jesper’s ocean-blue eyes.”

Above: Felicia looking stunning in Nangi’s Drop Diamond Pendant in 14 K yellow gold. Photo by @adois_photography

From all of us at Nangi

Following Felicia for seven years, from her first rings to the proposal and the wedding, means a great deal to us.

Dear Felicia and Jesper, thank you so much for letting us be a small part of your day. We wish you a life full of adventure, lemons and limoncello.

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