The Tamesis
As for what to wear to the ceremony, Meg said: “Our vision was Botticelli, so there was only one choice: Vivienne Westwood.” She paired it with a Nova Camille dress from the brand. Her wedding shoes were Manolo Blahnik Hangisi white satin slingbacks, which she bought during a mother-daughter trip to Paris. She changed into white satin slippers from Le Monde Beryl during the ceremony to avoid her heels sinking into the grass, and wore them throughout the evening.
To complete her ceremony look, she wore an heirloom veil that many women in her family wore on their wedding days. “My grandmother’s aunt, Mary Jane Fetzer Bryant, first wore it in 1948. She and her parents purchased it in Europe in the late 1930s. My grandmother wore it in 1949. Her cousin Peggie Hart also wore it at her wedding in 1977,” Meg explains. She worked with Susan Ruddie of The Wedding Dresser to restore the veil. “In the ’80s or ’90s, a gangster family member added velcro to it, which had to be carefully removed. Luckily, it worked!” Meg said.
For jewelry, the bride wore an engagement ring from Ashley Zhang, a wedding band from Maiden Voyage, and a vintage diamond and sapphire bracelet given to her by her grandmother, “something old, something borrowed, something blue.” She also worked with makeup artist Chanel Cross to pursue a natural glamor that would meet her goal of “looking exactly like me, but with style.”
John worked with stylist Ryan Young, a friend of the couple, to create two looks for the wedding weekend. On Friday night, he wore a black turtleneck, a truffle Caruso double-breasted tuxedo jacket and Caruso cream pants. At the wedding, he wore clothes from Richard James and black dress shoes from Suit Supply. His ring was a scrolled band made of white and yellow gold, designed by Meg’s friend Mia Haritz’s parents at Bridal Rings in Los Angeles.
John’s cousin Anahita officiated at the ceremony, which included Persian elements to honor John’s Iranian roots. “At the last minute, we decided to sit in the Sofreh Aghd restaurant, which was decorated with symbols of love, sweetness, prosperity and commitment. John’s Aunt Margaret kindly lent us her termeh for the ceremony,” Meg shared.
“Our female family members and best friends put cones of candy on our heads to make us feel sweet. In a traditional Persian wedding, the officiant will ask the bride if she agrees to the union, and she will not respond until after the third inquiry. This means that the bride has carefully considered the marriage and is not rushing into it,” says Meg. “My two best friends, Zoe and Remy, bravely shouted out excuses for me the first two times, including that I was busy reading. Our other best friend Ellen, who was our baby girl, took the honey we dipped our pinkies in and fed it to each other. Porn!”
“During the ceremony, we had a sneak kiss before the ‘kiss,'” John added. “I’m the kind of person who often gets stage fright, but I felt completely at ease during our ceremony. I love that moment when it’s off-script. I wanted to kiss Meg, so I did. It was easy and it felt like us.”
