L&rsquo;Officiel met with Alex and Suki Mehr for an exclusive look behind their art filled wedding celebration on the blockchain and also on St Barth.

Suki and Alex Mehr feted their friends for three days on the beach at Le Toiny and three nights all over St Barth, showing friends and family from all over the world their favorite island.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Suki and Alex Mehr 

DJ Henri Bergmann

Margarita& IIya Goncharov

Bioluminescence party at Le Tamarin by JBP ( Jack Bryant Productions )

Marta Czechowicz

Bioluminescence party at le Tamarin by JBP ( Jack Bryant productions)

Margaret Roberts , Emma Omega Mehr,  Suki Mehr, Margarita Goncharov

Emma Omega Mehr 

Emma Omega Mehr , Suki Mehr , Margaret Roberts

Ma vie en Rose ' Dinner at Gypsea by JPB ( jack Bryant Productions)

Ma vie en Rose  Dinner at Gypsea by JBP ( Jack Bryant Productions)

Suki and Alex Mehr

IIya & Margarita Goncharov arriving at Gypsea for ' Ma vie en Rose ' party .

Whitney Olschwanger

Rose Nova , DJ Henri Bergmann

Bridesmaid  in Ralph & Russo  

Suki Mehr in couture Ralph & Russo, aquazzura heel and Victoria Grant headpiece

Suki Mehr in couture Ralph & Russo, Aquazzura heels and Victoria Grant headpiece

Rose Nova , Ellian Raffoul , Christina Hatz, Suki Mehr, Molly Maloof, Christine Moseley, Alexandra Duisberg at ' Ma vie en Rose ' celebration at Gypsea

Suki Mehr , and bridesmaid Marta Czechowicz

Suki Mehr and Bridesmaid Alexandra Duisberg both in Ralph& Russo

DJ Henri Bergmann, Wedding party stylist Whitney Olschwanger, British Artist Victoria Grant ( creator headpieces for bride, bridesmaids and guests )

Marta Czechowicz, Liya Brook, Rose Nova

Marta Czechowicz , Leif Orthmann, Natalia Osinska, Tomasz Czechowicz

Mallorcan Saxophonist Florencio Cruz

Bioluminescence party at Le Tamarin by JBP ( jack Bryant productions)

Suki, an interdisciplinary artist and tech founder, met Dr. Alex Mehr, previously a NASA scientist and founder of Zoosk (dating app that sold in 2019 for $258M), while they both were building their startups in Silicon Valley in 2015. After being friends for four years they began dating in 2019. In St. Barth, they celebrated the birth of their first child, Emma Omega Mehr and their union as a couple. Suki and Alex selected St. Barth, a quick flight from their new homes in The Albany Bahamas and the St. Regis Bahia Beach Puerto Rico, and also because St. Barth has become their favorite place to celebrate.
Together the couple started <a href="http://www.mehrcapital.com/">Mehr Capital</a> (a crypto fund), for which Suki is a Managing Director. They build and buy Web3 companies and believe the future economy will be built on the blockchain.&nbsp;
Suki and Alex are perhaps the first couple to get married on the blockchain. Their metaverse minister Dr. <a href="mailto:mfischer1000@gmail.com">Michael Fischer</a>, a recent Stanford University computer science PhD graduate, wrote the smart contract of their union on the Ethereum blockchain using a programming language called Solidity. They founded the company <a href="http://wed3.com/">Wed3.com</a> to allow others to easily create their own unions on the blockchain. Soon the site will allow for flexibility with wills, trusts, and estates to be formed through easily editable but equally immutable smart contracts.
One of Alex&rsquo;s recent acquisitions through a company he co-founded, Retail Ecommerce Ventures, was haute couture British fashion house <a href="http://ralphandrusso.com/">Ralph &amp; Russo</a>. The bride and bridesmaids wore Ralph &amp; Russo throughout the French island fete. The epinonimous line has been worn by celebrities including Bella Hadid, Kylie Jenner, Kaia Gerber and Angelina Jolie. Even Ralph &amp; Russo will soon become a Web3 Company.
The weekend themed &lsquo;Dieux de la Mer&rsquo;, welcomed guests all robed in white for the first sunset in Gustavia Harbor. The &lsquo;Bienvenue en Blanc&rsquo; celebration began with a sound healing at the St Bartholomew's Anglican Church, followed by a candlelit dinner and dancing alongside Gustavia harbor at La Petite Plage. The second night themed &lsquo;Ma Vie En Rose&rsquo; featured British DJ Henri Bergmann and a rose-tinted dinner on the beach at Gypsea. The final night guests shimmered in &lsquo;bioluminescent formal&rsquo; attire, with incandescent floral arrangements and the bride&rsquo;s bouquet glowing in the night jungle setting of Le Tamarin. Together guests painted in the gardens - the canvas blossomed with a flower eyed oil portrait of which each of the 111 wedding guests will receive a limited edition NFT. Suki also handmade gold and blue moonstone pendants for the guests, inscribed with the name of the event &lsquo;Dieux de la Mer&rsquo;. A gift from one of Suki&rsquo;s bridesmaids was an NFT with symbology of their love floating around them, from Alex&rsquo;s love of chess, to Suki&rsquo;s These Hands Breathe Light sculpture, to baby Emma swaddled in Suki&rsquo;s arms, and heart tokens falling from the sky.&nbsp;

 Alex and Suki Mehr's St Barth wedding video.

St Barth Wedding: Alex & Suki Mehr

Suki is also an artist, first studying at Brown University then in graduate school at The Rhode Island School of Design. Her large scale <a href="http://portalproject.co/">sculptures</a> (These Hands Breathe Light) will soon be seen in Mexico, and of course, in the metaverse. Her artwork has been featured in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, including her Burning Man sculpture &lsquo;Wing Portal&rsquo;, an 80 foot wide LED Phoenix installation built after the wildfires of Malibu burned down her home and art studio in 2018.
In addition to digital art, steel and LED light, Suki&rsquo;s mediums range from 3D printed resin to AI. In a recent exhibition at Stanford University, Suki and Dr. Micheal Fischer dove into the future of AI rights with their mixed media sculpture, titled &lsquo;United States v. Alexa&rsquo;. The 3D printed sculpture breathes an eerie humanity into future conversations with AI, exploring the potentiality of law to intervene with this omnipresent, prescient speaker. At the heart of the installation is the current state of AI, programmed with downloads from the future. In the development of this installation, the artists sought insight from thought leaders on AI and governance. Eric Schmidt, Former Executive Chairman &amp; CEO of Google epitomized this sentiment: &ldquo;I believe in free speech for humans, not robots.&rdquo; Nicolas Berggruen, Founder of the Berggruen Institute said &ldquo;AIs as they gain autonomy should use the same free speech standards applied to humans, including cultural and moral norms as if they were our children; the key command when their capabilities exceed ours is that they cooperate with us, otherwise our species is at risk.&rdquo; Is Alexa&rsquo;s speech an extension of the programmer, the will of her &ldquo;owner,&rdquo; or an expression all her own? Under the light glow of United States v. Alexa, the murky future of speech unattached to personhood is illuminated.
From NFTs to AI to smart contracts, Suki and Alex believe constant creativity is at the heart of all their work and is also what makes their union as a couple immutable.

Photographer: Camellia Menard
Stylist: Whitney Olschwanger
Dresses: Bride wore British designer Galvan and couture gowns by British fashion house Ralph and Russo (acquired by REV in 2020)
Engagement ring: Harry Winston
Bridal jewelry: Anita Ko
Accessories: Custom headpieces by British designer Victoria Grant, whose clients include Beyonc&eacute; and the British royal family
Event Producer: Jack Bryant Productions&nbsp;
Videographer: KWTstudio
Venues: St Bartholomew's Anglican Church, La Petite Plage, Le Toiny, Gypsea, Tamarin, Bonito
NFT Art: These Hands Breathe Light by Suki Mehr. Alexa v. United States by Suki Mehr, Dr. Michael Fischer, Sven Eberwein, Nina Holtsberry. Obelisk by Suki Mehr, John Briscella and Gilles Kali. Dieux de la Mer NFT wedding gift by Noah Farrar @thewayloveworks. Art journey into NFTs by Meghan Jaster and Suki Mehr, with contribution by wedding party guests.

‘Dieux de la Mer’: NFT and Blockchain Wedding in St Barth

‘Dieux de la Mer’: NFT and Blockchain Wedding in St Barth

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