At first, Eryka (above, left) tried on solely white clothes for her wedding ceremony. “I attempted on each one on the market,” she stated, “and ran out of choices. So, I opened myself as much as colour.” She and her fiancée Rachel ended up each sporting fuchsia on their large day. Right here, three {couples} share their matching appears…
Eryka + Rachel
Eryka (left) and Rachel at Metropolis Corridor.
Eryka: We had 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 vital to get our geese in a row earlier than the inauguration in January 2025. We had two months.
Rachel: Though nontraditional, a colourful wedding ceremony outfit felt pure to me. I knew I needed to put on a swimsuit, and I’ve all the time appreciated a fluorescent palette. As a result of we had been on a good timeline, the query was, what choices can be found? I knew I’d discover issues that match properly and really feel good at J. Crew.
Eryka: Once I determined to maneuver away from white clothes, Instagram’s algorithm fed me a pink Banana Republic gown, and it simply clicked.
Rachel: At first, I frightened that we may be too matchy-matchy. However Eryka had a imaginative and prescient, and he or she’s just about all the time proper about aesthetic selections.
Eryka: Solange’s wedding had been burned in my mind since I noticed the images again in 2014. I like how she and her husband each wore white and regarded 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 appreciated the thought of sporting comparable 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 liked that we matched however had refined variations in our appears and wore completely different footwear.
Dae: We landed on white tuxes with black trim. We didn’t need to look conventional but additionally didn’t need to look too fashionable, and the white tuxes felt like an ideal in-between. We additionally put our wedding ceremony social gathering in black.
Dae: I feel a lot of a heterosexual wedding ceremony is targeted on the bride’s look, however that simply isn’t us. We needed to see one another shine, but additionally shine collectively as a unit. I hate when associates mix names like Bennifer, but it surely actually grew to become a DaeDrew second.
Katie + Mike
Katie: I had been married earlier than and wore a conventional gown, however neither that marriage nor gown had 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 on the lookout for.
Katie: Mike settled on that jacket, and I used to be nonetheless trying round at concepts when I discovered a matching 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 de facto essential to us.
Congratulations to all of the beautiful {couples}!
P.S. Would you wear a short wedding dress, and how did you make your wedding feel true to you?
(Sylvie Rosokoff shot the weddings of each Mike and Katie and Rachel and Eryka. Dae and Andrew’s wedding ceremony was photographed by itla photo.)
