Our engagement began on the Long White Bridge at Magnolia Gardens. Magnolia Gardens, founded in 1676 and opened to the public in 1870, is the oldest public garden in America. Magnolia's iconic Long White Bridge was installed in the 1840’s by Reverend John Grimke Drayton “as an element in a romantic garden that he was creating for his Philadelphia bride.” Though, our Dayton bride thinks its pretty romantic too. Our engagement ends and our marriage begins in the foreground of another iconic Charleston bridge. Join us as we start this new chapter before the diamond-shaped towers of the Cooper River Bridge a/k/a Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.