The to-be-weds decided to spend the morning of their wedding day together at Wythe Hotel. Then, guests began to arrive in the ceremony space to live music while sipping on bubbles in flutes designed by the couple’s friend Sophie Lou Jacobsen. “We are real romantics and wanted the ceremony to feel very personal,” says Emma. “We walked down the aisle to Arvo Pärt’s ‘Spiegel im Spiegel,’ and our close friend Clarisse Fahrtmann officiated in a way that we still can’t get over.”
Rowan notes the ceremony felt especially emotional as he learned just beforehand that his grandmother had gone to the hospital and would not be able to attend. “She and my grandfather were sort of loving-relationship role models for me growing up and helped me believe in marriage. I was heartbroken that she would miss the night, especially after losing my father in the fall of 2023, while also being filled with so much appreciation and love for all present,” he shares. “I went off script to pay homage to Nana and Pop-Pop in my vows.” After a ceremony full of laughter and tears, the couple recessed to Louis Armstrong’s “La Vie en Rose” and made their way upstairs for an outfit change. The night continued with dirty martinis, an “appropriately raucous feast,” speeches full of ad-libbing and joking, and a killer playlist.
Emma reflects on the day, saying, “It’s really true what everyone says about it going by so quickly. What an amazing couple of days of having so many people we love in the same place and so many getting to meet each other for the first time. I think the most special moments might have been the less formal of the plans: our night at Tiwa and dancing at Gabriela after the wedding itself, when all of these amazing people were just having the best time together.”
While they have entered a new stage in their relationship, Rowan shares, “Emma and I have lived as if married for years and loved each other as if just married for that long, too, but having this celebration and those collective memories does bring something special and new to our relationship and even to the work we do together. I do love wearing a ring and getting to say wife. Perhaps more than anything, I’m incredibly grateful that we went through all of this enjoying it as much as we did.”
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