“It’s not often that a groom has strong opinions about a wedding, but I wanted something worthy of the moment — not just for Kristina and me, but for everyone who had carried us to that day.
Kristina has always had a deep reverence for flowers, whether living or rendered in oil — she would be as moved by a Dutch still life as by any garden. In a decade of courtship, we made a quiet ritual of seeking out the botanical gardens of every city we visited — from Phoenix to New York to the Florida Keys.
Long before we chose a venue, the most important decision had already been made — the woman I would marry. The rest followed from her. But the question I turned over longest was who would shape the world we walked into that day.
I had first come across Tara Selios’s work in 2010, and her eye for beauty had stayed with me ever since. I reached out to her, hoping she might bring that eye to the most important day of my life. She introduced me to Callia at Ephemeris, whom she had met working together on a museum exhibition in Boston.
The moment we met Callia, we knew we had found our designer. There are things that cannot be explained — she simply understood what we were reaching for, and we just clicked.
We had originally brought Callia and Tara on for the entrance installation alone. But Callia had a quiet certainty about her, and her confidence in our vision made handing her the entire floral design inevitable. They were so at ease, especially knowing just how important this was to us — and I can say without reservation that I was stunned by the result.
Callia and Tara had put together an arrangement suitable for any exhibition, but fate saw fit to place it not in a gallery, but at the center of our lives on that day.”
