![]() So this week the choice was easy - we heard via the twittervine ( following us yet?) that Aoife & Deirdre of The Bridal Lounge had just become the proud stockists of the Two Birds bridesmaid range of dresses. Being in that environment was very surreal.Stuff We Love on Fridays is all about just that - wedding stuff we discover during the week, love, and just have to tell you about. “Flushing was a lot of fun, and I loved what we did in Maine. ![]() “I was happy to see my family happy,” Sandy says. Sandy and Dorian say their predominant feelings about their two weddings is a simple one: happiness. The mercurial weather, says Sandy, made an impeccably moody atmosphere: “It felt cosy and dreamy – a very special moment for me.” Guests dined on a gourmet feast of lobster with burrata, fish steamed in parchment, grilled beef with charcoaled chilli, and eggplant caponata as rain poured down around them. “I am so lucky to have so many talented people in my life who I roped into doing this whole thing with me,” she says. Centa, a Lisbon-based creative studio that works with Loewe and Zara, made giant ribbon centerpieces for the tables that sat alongside calla lilies tied to ivory candles and vintage silverware the bride sourced herself. Paolo’s son Simone baked the couple’s giant white sheet cake, which sat upon a board crafted by her father-in-law. Sandy enlisted the expertise of several accomplished friends throughout the evening: James Beard Award-winning chef Danny Bowien, along with Portland-based chef Paolo Laboa, catered her dinner. I loved how we were enclosed by all the tall grass and you had to sort of wander into the tent,” she said.) (Little did the couple know that Dorian’s father had been painstakingly mowing the lawn for the past month to create such an idyllic setting for the reception: “There was a lot of care poured into the whole situation. As she walked along a winding path of tall grass and wildflowers, covered with mist coming off the ocean, Dorian was waiting in a suit from Bhambi’s Custom Tailors. I’m used to always being behind the scenes, so it was so much fun to be the girl getting dressed up.” In lieu of a bouquet, she had a single allium with a black ribbon by florist Miguel Yatco. “I wanted to channel that energy into my wedding look. “One of my core inspirations will forever be Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola,” Sandy says. ![]() She paired it with Mikimoto pearls and a dramatic veil, while Arneson adorned her long raven hair with bows. Made of silk taffeta – “if a princess were a fabric, this would be it,” elaborates Sandy – the Ponyo featured elbow-length sleeves and a cape. The bride wore a gown of her own design, called the Ponyo dress. “I’m the first kid to get married, so it was a funny fusion of known traditions and just googling what we were supposed to do.” After Dorian found her footwear, he carried Sandy downstairs and into their friend’s car, which took them across a bridge for good luck. (Upon release, they sold out in two days.) “That game has something to do with making sure we don’t run away from each other,” Sandy recalls, laughing. One of them comically involved the groom searching for a Sandy Liang Mary Jane, her brand’s most sought-after product. Meanwhile Dorian was playing a series of games, set up by Sandy’s sister, devised to prove his love for the bride. Her hair stylist, artist Lizzie Arneson, twisted her locks into an intricate twisted bun, and make-up artist Sena Murahashi dabbed on nude lipstick. Afterward, she changed into a custom crimson silk jacket and skirt made by Chinatown shop Noble Madam. After giving red packets to her sister, cousin, and best friend – considered tokens of good luck in Chinese culture – she had a bowl of tangyuan and poured tea for her parents. Sandy began the day by burning incense and then getting her hair brushed by her mother. So on 28 May the two held a traditional Chinese banquet at her family’s restaurant in Flushing, Queens. Upon their return, Sandy’s father asked what she describes as his “kind of fortune-teller, spiritual-advisor man” to pick the luckiest day for their wedding. Apparently I was babbling – not in a crying way, just in a happy way.” “We were the only people there – it was just so serene and vast,” Sandy says. Fast forward eight years later, and Dorian proposed in a vineyard on the Venetian island of Mazzorbo. But as the saying goes, sometimes love comes when you least expect it. Neither, really, was Dorian: he was just finishing up his master’s degree in architecture at Yale, commuting from New Haven to New York on weekends to look for a job. “I was having fun being single,” she says. At the time, Liang – the fashion designer behind the beloved New York label Sandy Liang – wasn’t looking for anything serious. In 2016, Sandy Liang and Dorian Booth matched on Bumble. ![]()
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