At first, Eryka (above, left) tried on solely white attire for her marriage ceremony. “I attempted on each one on the market,” she stated, “and ran out of choices. So, I opened myself as much as shade.” She and her fiancée Rachel ended up each carrying fuchsia on their large day. Right here, three {couples} share their matching seems…
Eryka + Rachel
Eryka (left) and Rachel at Metropolis Corridor.
Eryka: We have been planning to get married in August 2026 within the lake city the place Rachel grew up, however after the 2024 presidential election, we felt it was essential to get our geese in a row earlier than the inauguration in January 2025. We had two months.
Rachel: Though nontraditional, a colourful marriage ceremony outfit felt pure to me. I knew I needed to put on a swimsuit, and I’ve all the time favored a fluorescent palette. As a result of we have been on a good timeline, the query was, what choices can be found? I knew I’d discover issues that match effectively and really feel good at J. Crew.
Eryka: Once I determined to maneuver away from white attire, Instagram’s algorithm fed me a pink Banana Republic costume, and it simply clicked.
Rachel: At first, I anxious that we is perhaps too matchy-matchy. However Eryka had a imaginative and prescient, and she or he’s just about all the time proper about aesthetic decisions.
Eryka: Solange’s marriage ceremony had been burned in my mind since I noticed the photographs again in 2014. I really like how she and her husband each wore white and appeared so slick and cohesive. Matching is one thing we wouldn’t actually do exterior of this expertise, so it made it really feel particular.
Andrew + Dae
Andrew (left) and Dae throughout their first look.
Andrew: From the beginning, we favored the concept of carrying related outfits to emphasise us coming collectively in marriage. We discovered an incredible tailor in L.A. — Jerry at JB Clothiers. He even custom-made our shirts and added particulars like our initials. I cherished that we matched however had refined variations in our seems and wore completely different footwear.
Dae: We landed on white tuxes with black trim. We didn’t need to look conventional but in addition didn’t need to look too fashionable, and the white tuxes felt like an ideal in-between. We additionally put our marriage ceremony occasion in black.
Dae: I feel a lot of a heterosexual marriage ceremony is concentrated on the bride’s look, however that simply isn’t us. We needed to see one another shine, but in addition shine collectively as a unit. I hate when mates mix names like Bennifer, nevertheless it actually grew to become a DaeDrew second.
Katie + Mike
Katie: I had been married earlier than and wore a standard costume, however neither that marriage nor costume have been as ‘me’ as I needed to be this time.
Mike: I used to be fascinated with a complicated look involving florals — one thing blue, plus winter whites. This coat turned out to be precisely what I used to be searching for.
Katie: Mike settled on that jacket, and I used to be nonetheless trying round at concepts when I discovered an identical corset. That’s what pulled it collectively.
Mike: Matching introduced dwelling the sensation that the 2 of us are in it collectively.
Katie: And it introduced a way of gender equality to the event, which is admittedly essential to us.
Congratulations to all of the attractive {couples}!
P.S. Would you put on a brief marriage ceremony costume, and how did you make your marriage ceremony really feel true to you?
(Sylvie Rosokoff shot the weddings of each Mike and Katie and Rachel and Eryka. Dae and Andrew’s marriage ceremony was photographed by itla photograph.)
