This bride wore a simple Vera Wang crepe dress with an origami fold at the bust her wedding in Milan, Italy.
During her freshman year at Northwestern University, Benita Chan, now the director of digital content and social media for Saks Fifth Avenue, lost her student ID at a party. Ever the gentleman, Grant Anderson found it and messaged her on Facebook. “We had never met before, but I responded with ‘Yes, I love you! Thank you so much!’” Benita remembers. Despite her enthusiastic reaction, the moment didn’t lead to a meet-cute, as Benita asked a friend to pick up the ID on her way across campus.
They had been dating for six years when Grant proposed. He initially wanted to incorporate the scene of their first date into the proposal, but Benita had just been to the Guggenheim a couple days beforehand, so he had to switch gears to avoid suspicion. “He set up brunch with our friends at the Met members’ room so that I would get dressed up,” Benita explains. “Then he took me for a walk through Central Park while our friends feigned an errand they had to run.
Once the location had been decided, Benita embarked on an extensive wedding dress search. “I tried on more than 150 ceremony dresses and narrowed it down to five very different options before Grant helped me choose the final dress,” she says. “He printed pictures of me in the five dresses, laid them out on our bed, and imagined me walking down the aisle in each of them.” They ultimately chose a simple Vera Wang crepe dress with an origami fold at the bust and a Vera Wang embroidered veil.
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