Priya & Tom

Priya is a paediatric dentist, Tom teaches high-school history and coaches wrestling. They met on a dating app, on a first date at a Wawa at 11pm after both of their actual plans fell through, and have gone back to that Wawa every year since.

A walled garden in late May does most of a florist's work for her, which is roughly what their florist said on arriving to find the peonies already out. They planned around the garden rather than decorating it: nothing above knee height, nothing that competed with what was already flowering.

The one real fight was the guest list. They landed on 130 by writing down everyone they had spoken to voluntarily in the previous year, which cut forty people and no feelings.

A walled garden in late May does most of a florist's work for her, which is roughly what Priya and Tom's florist said when she arrived to find the peonies already out. The ceremony was on the lawn, cocktails in the rose walk, and dinner under a clear-topped tent that spent the evening filling up with candlelight.

Get married somewhere that is already beautiful in the month you are getting married. We spent almost nothing on decor because the garden was the decor, and every dollar we saved there went into the food, which is the part people still bring up.