Studio 54 Bash, Iconic Fashion, and Skyline Vows

Stephanie and Bryce are New York people. Not in the way that everyone who moves to New York becomes a New York person, but in the way where the city is genuinely part of who they are. So when it came time to get married, they did not go to a vineyard or a barn or a destination resort. They stayed home and threw the best possible version of a New York City weekend.

Keila Bottiglieri of Abby Jiu Photography photographed the whole thing. Planning by Silk and Slate.

No wedding party. No formal procession of people in matching dresses. Just Stephanie, Bryce, and the people they love most, moving through their city for four days straight.

The rehearsal dinner

Little Owl in SoHo. Intimate, deliberate, exactly right. Stephanie wore a custom Galia Lahav dress with a Favorite Daughter jacket, jeweled Rene Caovilla heels, and a sparkling Rabanne 1969 clutch. The kind of look that says this person has been thinking about fashion for a long time and has arrived at complete confidence in it.

The evening felt effortless. Every detail had a reason to be there and none of it felt like it was trying.

The wedding day

The ceremony was on the rooftop of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop. There are venues that exist specifically to be photographed and then there are venues where the setting actually means something to the people getting married. The Wythe rooftop, for a couple who lives and breathes New York, was the latter.

Stephanie wore three looks. She started in a sleek Danielle Frankel silk gown with vintage Manolo Blahniks and a Jimmy Choo wrist bag. Changed into an embellished Rachel Gilbert maxi with cherry red Gucci slingbacks. Finished the night in a hot pink Des Phemmes mini dress with sneakers. Each look was completely different and completely her. A bride unafraid to be bold who never once lost the thread of who she actually is.

The brunch

The weekend did not end with the wedding. The next morning Stephanie arrived at the loft suite of their Dumbo apartment building via ferry across the East River, in a sleek Sunday look carrying an heirloom Hermes mini Kelly. A ferry ride to brunch with your closest people the morning after your wedding is the kind of detail that only works if you are genuinely that couple. They are genuinely that couple.

On the photography

Four days. Multiple venues across Brooklyn and Manhattan. Three outfit changes on the wedding day alone. Keila's job was to move through all of it without losing the thread, capturing a weekend that felt fresh without chasing trends and fashion forward without ever losing meaning.

The whole thing felt like New York at its best. Loud, stylish, full of joy, and completely itself.