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\u201cI chatted with the team at the Four Seasons, who helped me arrange to have a photographer for an engagement session at a tropical proposal setup on a small motu just off of the resort that we would get to via canoe, and a celebratory dinner. I also hit up my friends at Over the Moon<\/a> to lend us a Galvan<\/a> dress for Liv and a Fanm Mon<\/a> dress for me to wear for the proposal photos,\u201d Shelby says.<\/p>\n

On June 30, 2024, they spent the morning jet-skiing around the island. When they were back at the resort, Shelby spotted staff setting up the motu from the beach bar, where she and Liv were getting pi\u00f1a coladas. To avoid spoiling the surprise for Liv, Shelby kept pointing out random things on the property and fish in the water. (Liv later revealed that Shelby\u2019s diversion tactics were not totally successful.)<\/p>\n

Though the motu dinner plan was thwarted by strong winds, they were still able to do the proposal there. \u201cMy nerves set in during this moment, but it was mostly excitement,\u201d Shelby says. When they got to the beach, a canoe took them to the motu, which was decorated with tropical greenery. They each got out their ring boxes and had a moment of wondering who would go first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to go for it and, of course, automatically started crying the moment I got down on one knee,\u201d Shelby says. After Liv said yes, she proposed to Shelby. Exchanging rings, they got to see the special messages they\u2019d had inscribed in them for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly in our relationship, Shelby said that she hadn\u2019t really been in love in a relationship before. Inside my ring, she had the words \u2018Thank you for teaching me what love is\u2019 engraved. Her ring, engraved in my handwriting, simply read, \u2018my love,\u2019 \u201d Liv shares.<\/p>\n

After more tears and photos, they had a celebratory dinner in a chapel overlooking a lagoon, with flowers, Champagne, and a multi-course meal. \u201cOur double proposal felt like the perfect way to enter this chapter as true partners\u2014doing things our way and, hopefully, inspiring other queer couples to do the same,\u201d Liv says.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, they held a civil wedding ceremony<\/a> in New York. \u201cAfter the election in 2024 took place, Liv and I felt like it was safer as a queer couple for us to get legally married ahead of our big wedding,\u201d Shelby says. \u201cEven though we already had our November 2025 date in place, we were nervous that the new administration and Supreme Court may take actions that could overturn our right to marry. We decided to have a civil ceremony<\/a> on December 27, 2024, at the restaurant Upland in New York City that we planned in a month. The wedding had 12 guests, including family members and a family friend and his partner who officiated the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, working with the planners Tory Smith and Lauren Silavin of Smith + James<\/a>, they planned their big wedding celebration at the Wythe Hotel<\/a> for November 22, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI chatted with the team at the Four Seasons, who helped me arrange to have a photographer for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,49607,11732],"class_list":["post-110577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vogue-weddings","tag-wedding-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}