New York Daily News

down the aisle

Jennifer Lenhart & Andrew Carranza

- Joe Dziemianow­icz

St. Pete Beach, Fla. As editors, Jennifer and Andrew are used to making revisions and rolling with Plan Bs.

In that way, the couple’s beach wedding in Florida was business as usual.

“The day before,” says Jennifer, who grew up in a suburb of Tampa, “the forecast was dire — violent thundersto­rms, possible tornado warnings, a high seas advisory — the worst possible nightmare.”

Nasty weather ultimately meant an 11th-hour location change and that there’d be no generator to power a sound system. So the procession­al came a cappella. The nearly 70 guests, some relying on iPhones for lyrics, sang as Jennifer made her way across the sand.

The song — a Beatles classic, “All You Need Is Love.”

A perfect message for a wedding day — no matter what Mother Nature throws in your way.

“It was quite lovely,” says Jennifer, adding that “the weather was heavenly for the entire ceremony and there was even a rainbow afterward.”

If that recalls a sunny Hollywood ending, it’s fitting. At their first date in November 2010 — drinks at the midtown wine bar Kashkaval — a mutual passion for movies was one of their first points of connection. And sources of debate. Jennifer, 38, a senior editor at Us Weekly, lists Hitchcock’s “Notorious” as her favorite film. Andrew, 39, an editor at the film and video postproduc­tion company Fotokem, puts David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in his top spot.

Another point in common — a love for baseball. She’s a die-hard Yankees fan. He was as well, until 1986. Now he’s a Mets fan.

The surfside nuptials was actually the second exchange of vows for the couple, who live in Hell’s Kitchen. They’d wed two weeks earlier closer to home — no storm, no rainbow, but lots of love.

“We also got married officially on the Brooklyn Bridge,” says Jennifer. “We wanted our marriage certificat­e to be from New York because Andrew was born here. We live here, and everyone can get married here.”

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