Hopeless Romantics

Hopeless Romantics

Issue:

August 2025

Summer meets fall at this garden-inspired soiree rife with texture and ambiance

Photographs by:

Ava Moore Photography

Hopeless Romantics

FEATURE TYPE:

The Wedding Row

December 20 2018

Heather & Peter | The William Aiken House

Although Heather and Peter grew up in the same town in New Jersey, they didn’t officially meet until he noticed her wearing a Ridge High School lacrosse sweatshirt at a Lafayette College fraternity...

December 19 2018

Lindsay & Tyler | Magnolia Plantation & Gardens

High school romances can be so very, very awkward. Take Chapin, South Carolina, natives Lindsay and Tyler, for example. “He claims he charmed me when I fell up the stairs to our Spanish class and he...

December 18 2018

Ross & Chase | Historic Rice Mill

Charleston residents Ross and Chase met online back in 2014, got engaged in 2016, and invited one and all—Ross is one of 30 grandchildren—to their seriously wonderful wedding in 2018. Family...

December 17 2018

Styled Shoot | Middleton Place

While the event maestro Kim Newton orchestrates plenty of weddings in her own neck of the woods (that’s Alexandria, Virginia), she also has clients who say “I do” here in Charleston. While on one...

December 14 2018

Sara & Collin | Lowndes Grove Plantation

Happy Friday, brides! Do you remember these two? To trigger your memory, here’s a link to when we posted Sara and Colin ’cycle-centric engagement photos by shutterbugs Aaron and Jillian. Well, now it...

December 13 2018

Lindsey & Andrew | The Gadsden House

You know we’d only share a gorgeous wedding with you. So we’ll pause on the descriptors of this couple’s Big Day for a moment and tell you a little about the pair themselves, because when...

December 12 2018

Gina & Alexander | Wingate Plantation

You know about “designated travel companions,” right? It’s when someone who works for an airline gets to pick a “buddy” who can travel at the same nominal fees (we’re talking taxes and regulatory...

December 11 2018

Olivia & Micah | The William Aiken House

Today’s couple hit it off one night at a Baltimore bar. Credit for the first move goes to Olivia, who made her intentions mighty clear on her way out by hip-checking another girl out of the way so...

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