Olivia-Jené Fagon—who wore a pink Wiederhoeft corseted gown—and Joshua Moses’s wedding traveled everywhere from a downtown gallery to Rockefeller Center.
Newlyweds Olivia-Jené Fagon and Joshua Moses had a classic will-they-won’t-they relationship—at least, the groom seems to think so. The pair first met as students at Brown University. “I remember the first time we met after some late-night party on the quad,” shares creative director Olivia.
“Then, we were just good friends for years.” They both moved to New York City after graduating, and would see each other at the occasional group dinner or party within their shared friend circle over the following years. “Almost 10 years later, we had our moment,” she says. At Josh’s birthday in 2020, the two spent the entire night together. “After that, there was this slow orbiting for a few weeks until he asked me to grab drinks after work. It wasn’t clear it was a date at all,” says Olivia. “‘Just drinks’ in FiDi turned into dinner in Fort Greene, which turned into after-drinks and after-after-drinks in Clinton Hill.” The next day, the attorney asked Olivia if they could stop seeing other people. “I couldn’t believe the conviction after one non-date date, but he had such clarity and certainty about us from the very beginning,” she remembers. “I said yes.” Covid lockdown began just two weeks later, and the pair found themselves quickly falling in love in their “strange but sweet little bubble.” When Josh began thinking of an engagement ring for Olivia, he knew a special family heirloom would be the perfect fit. “My great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Bernie and Birdie Nemeroff, lived in New York and were married on West 89th Street in 1930,” shares Josh. “He, like me, was an attorney, and she, like Olivia, was unspeakably glamorous.” The groom’s family offered him the ring for the proposal. Since the setting was a bit too worn for longevity, Josh worked with The Clear Cut to reset the stone in a new design. He adds, “The ring felt like a beautiful new chapter in our family’s history.” On the way home from spending Thanksgiving with Josh’s family in 2024, the attorney surprised Olivia with a last-minute trip to Piaule in the Catskills. “It’s one of our favorite places, and we normally drop in for a weekend there in the winter,” she says. While there were many hints that Josh would propose this weekend, Olivia notes she was oblivious to them all. “It’s a testament to how often this man surprises me that I genuinely thought it was just another one of those moments,” she shares. On a walk through the property with their dog Sonya, the pair ended up on the hotel’s patio—which was empty of any guests thanks to Josh’s careful planning with the staff. “He got down on one knee, handed me a note that said, ‘Will you marry me?’—very us, we write each other notes all time—and then there was the ring. I could not have imagined a ring more unique,” shares Olivia. The to-be-weds celebrated with a weekend of “cocooning” and “bliss.” The bride adds, “It was perfect.” The couple began planning that fall and quickly decided it would be a creative project for the two of them. “Josh is passionate about food—he co-founded the cookware company Misen and staged at a restaurant in Southern France in a past life—and I work in experiential events as a creative director,” says Olivia. “So it felt like a chance to put our skills and passions into something shared—not just divide tasks.” Picking a location was the first item on their agenda. While the couple considered destination celebrations in Jamaica or Sardinia, they ultimately decided on a wedding in New York City on November 8, 2025. “It’s romantic, it’s cozy, and it has all of that pre-holidays excitement,” notes Olivia. “The city feels very itself.” That city vibe dictated their vision, which they crafted alongside wedding planner Emily Warfield of Gatherings by Emily. “From the start, we wanted to bring our friends and family into the spaces we love here—restaurants, art galleries, our home—which meant not containing the wedding to a single, conventional venue,” says the bride. “That became a guiding question: how can our wedding mimic the best night out in New York?” This meant choosing multiple venues for the wedding weekend to play out. The pair especially loved their venue search, which led to many date nights throughout town. “We fell in love with the New York restaurant scene all over again while scouting—getting to kiki with front-of-house teams, being sent special plates or drinks, and riffing on what might be possible,” shares Olivia. After careful consideration, many taste tests, and bonding with venue owners, the to-be-weds crafted their agenda. The rehearsal dinner would take place at their favorite neighborhood spot Café Spaghetti in Cobble Hill, and the ceremony would be held at 15 Orient Gallery in Tribeca the following day. The evening would end with a reception at Le Rock, an Art Deco restaurant within The Rockefeller Center. “We also wanted some classic New York glamour, even if it’s not a part of the city we frequent day to day,” adds Olivia. The couple decided to let the venues speak for themselves, with their planning and florals teams enhancing each space rather than transforming it. The very involved to-be-weds helped with mood boards, decks, and even picked out fabric for their chuppah themselves at Mood Fabrics. While crafting the aesthetic was important, placing an emphasis on the menu and hospitality touches was a non-negotiable. “You hear ‘it was really good for wedding food’ so often, and we just wanted delicious food and drinks—period,” says Olivia. “We also wanted to give people permission to play: surprising guests with a jeroboam, serving everything family-style, and making sure nothing felt precious or stuffy. The Le Rock team understood that.” Both the bride and groom leaned towards vintage New York glamour when selecting their wardrobes for the black-tie affair. Josh envisioned an ’80s-meets-’90s power-suit silhouette for his own tuxedo. “But even the custom suiting shops I visited said they would not be able to replicate that broad, square, and slightly oversized shape,” he says. While he tried on tuxes throughout the city, nothing was quite right. “As I despaired, Olivia saw an article that mentioned a London-based Armani collector and stylist named Karlmond Tang and cold emailed him,” says Josh. “Next thing I knew, Karlmond had sourced an unworn, 1990s-era Armani tuxedo from a shop in Italy.” Tang was able to connect the groom with Wazin Tailors to further perfect the vintage look. “Sam Wazin once worked for Armani, and did some impressive tailoring to make the suit truly custom without sacrificing any of its character,” explains the groom. “Sam also made me two beautiful custom shirts for the occasion, with our wedding date monogrammed onto the cuffs.” Josh was also very intentional with his jewelry choices for the weekend and leaned toward pieces with sentimental value. For the rehearsal dinner, he donned a gold bracelet and watch from two of his grandfathers. “On our wedding day, I wore pieces that Olivia had given me that felt like markers of our relationship over the years: a watch gifted to me for my 32nd birthday, a silver bracelet from a quick, memorable trip to Copenhagen, and a pair of emerald studs that Olivia gave to me in the final days before our wedding,” shares Josh. The bride found her gown before her wedding dress search ever really began. “I saw the Ophelia dress from Wiederhoeft’s spring 2025 runway show, and it was an immediate scroll-pause,” says Olivia. “I remember sending it to my mom, and she was like, ‘That is the dress.’” She saw the pink gown at Wiederhoeft’s New York studio and immediately loved its marriage of nostalgic and contemporary elements. “Smith McLean—my main point of contact at Wiederhoeft and the most incredible steward throughout the whole process—told me the dress is literally inspired by a garment you’d unearth in a relative’s attic and shake the dust off,” she says. The style featured a blush corseted bodice, a pencil skirt, hand-sewn carnations, and a long taffeta train. “I have these strong, pretty consuming pulls towards specific pieces of fashion, art, and design, and if I have that pull, there is nothing else,” explains Olivia. “So with the Ophelia, once I saw it, there was no other dress.” To accessorize, the bride wore her engagement ring—which tied to Josh’s family history—and rings from her grandmother on her other hand. “Across the weekend, it was so nice to look down and feel like I was wearing two lineages on my hands at once,” Olivia adds. “Once the dress was set, color and beauty became something to really calibrate,” says the bride. “My makeup artist Sydney Utendahl—who’s also a close friend—and I dialed in every choice together, from skin to makeup tones to hair, to make sure everything sat in the same world.” This even led to Olivia coloring her tresses ahead of the celebration. “I have naturally auburn hair but I deepened it into a richer cherry tone to play off the blush,” she shares. Later in the night, Olivia would swap her pink gown for a very different aesthetic. “For the after-party, I wanted a moment of transformation,” she says. “I’d been following Stockholm-based knitwear designer Mega Mikaela for a minute and was obsessed with her almost chainmail-esque weaving. We worked together over a few months to design a custom, hand-woven two-piece made from white yarn and silver steel washers.” The final look was so heavy it couldn’t even sit on a hanger. However, the bride says, “It was incredible to dance in.” The wedding weekend arrived, and the guests—all dressed in shades of ivory and cream—gathered with the couple at Café Spaghetti for the rehearsal dinner. “We did an all-white dress code—cheekily and very much on purpose—given that the restaurant has a menu full of red sauce,” says Josh. The bride wore a Joyce Bao lace and velvet top and a damask Genevieve Devine skirt for the night. “I’m not really an archival or vintage person,” she shares. “I’d much rather shop from the Central Saint Martins freshman class,” she adds. The evening was full of food, connection, speeches from the couple’s siblings, and music. “Our close friend Scout Larue Willis, who’s an incredible musician, performed live with a guitarist, singing two of my favorite love songs—Al Green’s ‘Simply Beautiful’ and Lauryn Hill’s ‘Tell Him,’” adds Josh. The New York wedding began at the couple’s apartment as the bride got ready with her close circle. “At one point, between my friends, Sydney and Brittany Taplin doing beauty and hair, Kelly and her team, and Emily and her team, there were 14 women running through the house at once,” she remembers. “My friends Troi and Madison helped me into my corset, Kelly hunted for tools to hang the dress, and Scout pulled tarot cards. I felt so tended to in this very communal moment.” The groom was kicked out of their home at 10 a.m. “Luckily, de facto groomsman Gabi Lewis gathered up my closest friends—and my father—and hosted a not-so-traditional Jewish pre-wedding party, a ‘tisch,’ at his apartment. We had bagels from the incomparable Apollo Bagels, toasts, and a mad 30-minute dash of 12 or so grown men trying to put tuxedos on all at once.” The to-be-weds both say of their mornings: “It was heaven.” Josh and Olivia reunited for their first look at their ceremony venue 15 Orient. After taking some photos with family, guests began to gather for the couple’s walk down the aisle in a thoughtfully adorned space. “We treated florals the way you’d treat a sculpture—big cascading tulips set on plinths—and reimagined the chuppah as a suspended, sculptural form rather than something heavier and pole-based,” says Olivia. The ceremony began with a family processional of the couple’s siblings, Josh and his parents, and finally Olivia’s parents to Bettye Swan’s “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye.” Then, a custom edit of Irma Thomas’s “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is” with an extended bell sequence played as the bride headed down the aisle. “I felt like I was floating,” she remembers. “I felt a brief vulnerability stepping out alone, and then almost immediately this sense of power and assurance walking towards Josh.” Friends played a role in the ceremony, with multiple former classmates of the couple giving readings throughout, and their “smartest friend,” Raillan Brooks, officiating. The couple also recited their own vows. “At that point, I just felt proud,” reflects Josh. After the couple recessed as husband and wife, they felt a release and began weeping happy tears. “Everything catching up to us at once,” says Olivia. The newlyweds signed their ketubah—which the groom hand-wrote himself with guidance from his childhood Hebrew school teacher—before joining guests for cocktail hour throughout the gallery. “We spent it running around saying hi, taking photos, making out, trying to touch every moment and person,” recalls Olivia. Even their arrival at the next destination was full of fanfare. “We were dropped off uptown straight into peak holiday crowds at Rockefeller Center—lights, tourists, people everywhere—and then suddenly there was this parade of a hundred guests in black tie moving through it all,” remembers Josh. “Strangers were stopping, taking photos, or calling out congratulations to us.” Entering into Le Rock felt like such a wonderful reveal, says the bride: “Emily, Carolina, and the team set the space beautifully. Guests were handed cocktails, with passed appetizers and raw bars already flowing.” That planned emphasis on hospitality continued as guests sat for the reception. “As dinner service started, martini carts started circulating with pre-made batches—one dry, one dirty—frozen inside blocks of ice,” describes Olivia. Speeches took place and brought an emotional and celebratory tone to the night. “At one point, Olivia’s best friend Madison led the entire room in rounds of ‘hip hip hooray,’” says the groom. The couple shared their first dance to Otis Redding’s “That’s How Strong My Love Is” before dancing with their parents. The groom shared a dance with his mom to Cat Stevens’s “Wild World,” and the bride danced with her father to Ray Charles and Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love.” Once the dance floor opened up to all their guests, the night kicked into full gear. “Richie from Dart Collective completely killed it—we wanted that feeling of things slowly unraveling and getting loose, bow ties coming undone, shoes coming off,” says Olivia. “I changed into my after-party dress in the restaurant bathroom, we passed late-night fries, and then everyone headed downtown to the after-party at Salvajes.” Looking back on the time that went into planning the weekend, the vendors they worked with, and the wonderful friends and family who celebrated with them, the couple shares they feel lucky, proud, and loved. Adds the bride: “And honestly, desperate to throw another party.”
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