Jessica and Jay met online and dated long distance (she was here in Charleston, he was in Connecticut) before she made the move up North. The two came back to visit the Holy City often, though, and...
Lauren’s grandparents’ 60th anniversary party was a nail-biter for Dylan. He’d asked Lauren’s dad permission to marry his daughter a short while before and Pops couldn’t help but tell his girl, “Well, I guess congratulations are in order!” (She chalked the kudos up to her winning a recent tennis match.) And when Lauren’s grandmother gifted her granddaughter the last pearls to finish a necklace they’d built up over decades, Grams told her to wear them on her wedding day. Luckily, Lauren was still in the dark, and Dylan closed out the celebration with a big public ask. The two, who live in Greenville, South Carolina, married at Boone Hall Plantation. See their wedding on our blog.
Photograph by The Happy Bloom