A wedding that brought together the aristocracy and the world of finance in Madrid

Friday, October 25, five o’clock in the afternoon, in front of the main altar of the church. parish of San Jeronimo El Realthe scene of the royal weddings of the kings of Spain, causes a sea of ​​​​nerves Santiago Lopez-Vilas. The groom is the son of a lawyer who upended the Spanish nobility by ensuring that his first-born sons inherited the family titles. He is nervous because he is marrying a young financial executive. Alba Fernandez Barreiros.

Their gazes, half-Gothic aristocrats, rest on him, and do so without any sarcasm. Maria of BourbonCalabria, Infantado, Dukes of Cardona, Marquis of Iturbieta, Counts of Valle Sushil, Countess of Coruna and La Gomera, Marchioness of Casa Oriol, Vivola and the European branches of Gotha with Archduchess Catherine of Habsburg and her nephew Thaddeus, Baroness von Thun, Countess of Marzotto, Princes of Hanover or Counts of Limburstierum . And with the names of the companies and the finances of Oriol, Baez, Spinola, Barreiros or Jaume, as well as with politics, with the mayor Martinez-Almeida and his wife as family friends.

Santiago Lopez Vilas accompanied by his mother Ingrid Beckhorst Wagnerwaits at the altar next to the priest José Luis Sánchez, the father in charge of the ceremony. With the usual minute delay and the first songs of the choir, the bride enters, Alba Fernandez Barreiroshand in hand with his brother Marcos, whose DNA is concentrated in aristocracy, culture and business. His uncle, an Extremadurian Jose Spinolais in the process of beatification at the Vatican. The famous Barreiros trucks created by her ancestors or the artistic philanthropy carried out by her grandmother Maite certainly runs through Alba’s veins. My father died suddenly during a work trip, 17 years ago in Chinahence his brother serves as best man at the wedding.

400 guestswho were called at five o’clock in the afternoon, breathe in the emotions of what is happening. Everything is a world of detail; the white voices of the choir, the scent of the floral arrangements of Aquileia associated with the bride’s family, the dress with a majestic train created Lorenzo Caprilewho has already made a wedding dress for her mother Maite Barreiros and covers herself with the family robe of exquisite lace. Her grandmother Maite Spinola’s tiara had been in her bank safe for several days and had fallen into the hands of jeweler Miguel Mas San Eduardo, who was responsible for its shine. All hundreds of details come together in the bride. Confident, firm and decisive, after many years of courtship she comes to the altar. Now we can report that at this moment a new marriage has already been concluded in Spanish high society and is celebrated in Club Puerta de Hierro in Madridwith dinner overlooking the most beautiful sunset in Madrid, Monte del Pardo. And if he wins on Saturday Classical He real Madrid in this Santiago Bernabeu This will be an impromptu gift for the groom, since Santiago Lopez-Vilas is a high-ranking official in the merengue club.