![]() It was representative of how much fun we were having and I love that memory so much. The scene was hilarious: a beautiful wedding with a packed dance floor and a bride in a viking hat with a McGuyver’d dress sleeve. Tucker and I cracked up, but I did need it for support so my new father-in-law gerryrigged a new sleeve using his bowtie. One of the straps on my dress broke because we were dancing so hard. LOOKING BACK, WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE WEDDING? DESCRIBE IT. They did THREE costume changes and played non-stop the entire reception it felt like a concert and people could not stop talking about it. They played a wide range of music from oldies, to old-school hip-hop, to modern hits. I am not exaggerating when I say the band we hired was the most talented, high-energy, INSANE band I’ve ever seen. We also rehearsed two bars of choreography to begin and end the dance, but the band announced us in a different way to what we expected so we ended up just winging it! WHAT KIND OF MUSIC PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT? We don’t slow dance together often so we took one lesson beforehand just to learn the basics of slow-dancing so we’d feel super comfortable. It’s a vintage classic (which we love) and for some reason people rarely choose the classics for their first dance song so it still felt original. We chose Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra. It’s your day, do what you want! WHAT DID YOU DANCE TO FOR YOUR FIRST DANCE? My Dad and I didn’t do a first dance just because that isn’t “us” - instead, he gave the only toast at the wedding. I had a Maid of Honor and Matron of Honor and one of my best guy friends was up there with me wearing a black tux that matched the groomsmen across the aisle. We broke with tradition in many ways! My ring is a black diamond. Tucker is big-time Scottish, so we also incorporated the Scottish tradition of hand-tying into our ceremony and it went perfectly! DID YOU INTENTIONALLY BREAK WITH TRADITION IN ANY WAY? Tucker and I signed a Ketubah the day before the wedding and it was presented during the ceremony. Tucker is Catholic and I am Jewish so we had a non-denominational ceremony with a couple custom tweaks. Looking back on the footage makes us tear up. The morning of the wedding, we wrote notes to each other along with our gifts and made sure the videographer captured us reading each other’s notes. DID YOU INCORPORATE ANY CULTURAL, TRADITIONAL OR SENTIMENTAL ELEMENTS INTO YOUR WEDDING DAY? The green florals that hung over the banquet seating on each side of the stage were lush and mesmerizing, especially when you saw them next to the neon “The Stewarts” sign that was hanging in front of the dance floor. We focused on angular and geometric edges, real candlelight (so happy our venue allowed this!), and mixed metals. TELL US ABOUT YOUR CEREMONY AND RECEPTION DÉCOR. He was behind me talking about how he’s so sorry he let the battery die and he’d never let me down again as long as he lived - and I’m in the front seat thinking, “man, why he is getting so serious about this dead battery?” - so I turned around to give him a hard time but never got there because he was down on one knee with tears in his eyes and asked me to marry him. ![]() We were headed to our spot one night in April 2018 when he said something about the battery running out and that he needed to stop the cart to check it out. We always take the golf cart out around the marshes and golf courses in their neighborhood and over time we found our special spot: halfway across a secluded bridge that crosses over a beautiful marsh, with nothing but the sounds of nature around you. Tucker grew up on Skidaway Island in Savannah so we often go back over holidays to visit his family. SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROPOSAL AND ENGAGEMENT RING(S). We hit it off instantly and were together five years before we got married. We both went to Georgia Tech and were set up as blind dates by a mutual friend for a fraternity formal that took place in Tucker’s hometown of Savannah, Georgia.
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