The bride and groom bought prepared at Fouquet’s New York in Tribeca over bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters. (Though Willow snuck all the way down to its Spa Diane Barrière for some R&R earlier than it was time for make-up.) Her mates Mia, Gabi and Rebecca got here to observe her prepare. “I’m so pleased they have been there with me, particularly as a result of we didn’t have time to do one thing like a bachelorette with the brief planning window, and we didn’t wish to be super-formal with a marriage social gathering,” she says. In the meantime, one other pal, photographer Hunter Abrams, came to visit to start out taking photos.
The couple had their first look on the Fouquet’s balcony. Regardless of them believing they weren’t “wedding ceremony folks,” it seems they very a lot have been: “We each bought actually choked up. I simply bear in mind Eric type of croaking out ‘have a look at you’ and me attempting so arduous to not utterly fall to tears,” Willow says. The groom greeted his bride in a linen Ralph Lauren tuxedo and a pair of Louboutin velvet slippers, together with turquoise and silver Tiffany & Co. cuff hyperlinks that Willow had given him as a birthday current years in the past.
After an adventurous Uber experience the place the driving force needed to jump-start his engine, Willow and Eric wed outdoors the River Café proper earlier than a rainstorm started. Her brother Bailey performed “Right here Comes the Solar” – a tune they listened to on the primary night time they met – whereas her father served as an officiant. (“I requested Eric who he thought ought to marry us and with out hesitation, he mentioned my father,” Willow says. “Eric referred to as my dad and requested him. Overhearing that decision was one of many highlights of the entire wedding ceremony for me.”) Each their respective moms walked them down the aisle.
They mentioned “I do” simply within the nick of time, because the skies opened up and the social gathering rushed contained in the River Café for a cocktail hour. Waiters served chorizo pigs in blankets, potato pancakes with apple sauce, and salmon with caviar on corn blinis as legendary pianist Dom Salvador performed. On the tables have been rocks that Willow’s mom collected in Montauk and painted with visitor names. (The Lengthy Island seaside city holds a particular which means for the bride, whose household has been vacationing there since she was a baby.)
“The meals was improbable,” Willow says of her wedding ceremony dinner, which included pear salad, lobster and steak. “Eric and I wished to roam round and discuss to everybody, which we did, however we didn’t miss a course,” she says. King, the pinnacle server at River Café, even slipped them an additional dessert to take residence on the finish of the night time.
After a number of toasts from family and friends, the couple’s pal and DJ Marques Emanuel bought the social gathering began. The primary individual on the dancefloor? The groom’s niece, who did the worm. Because the night time was morning, Willow and Eric went again to Fouquet’s – and realised they’d forgotten to signal their marriage contract. On their terrace overlooking the town, they lastly made it official simply earlier than midnight. “We had two of our mates, each named Eric, signal as witnesses,” Willow says. “Three Erics and a Willow make a wedding.”
Now that it’s throughout, the as soon as reluctant bride says she’s nonetheless basking in her post-wedding glow. “It was an ideal night time,” she says.
