Wickstead had another miracle yet to be achieved. A week before the wedding, Willow’s wedding dress was lost by DHL somewhere in Leicester, England. Her team worked tirelessly to find answers, and at one point even began making her an entirely new dress. At the last minute, they get a call: DHL has found the package. Emilia held a trunk show in the Hamptons the same week as Willow’s wedding, and she personally delivered the dress to the bride in New York City two days before she was set to walk down the aisle. (“Oh, my God,” Amelia laughs about the ordeal. “Willow is the most relaxed bride I’ve ever seen in my life!”)
The dress required some last minute alterations. Hence Willow’s name for beloved seamstress Cha Cha Zutic, who often works in Fashion shooting. She made final adjustments overnight. “One of my favorite photos from the wedding is Cha-Cha and I hugging each other as she zips up her dress and it fits perfectly—at 3:30 p.m. before the 5:30 p.m. ceremony,” Willow said.
The bride and groom had Russ & Daughters bagels and smoked salmon at Fouquet’s in Tribeca, New York. (Though Willow snuck off to the Diane Barriere Spa for some R&R before getting her makeup done.) Her friends Mia, Gabby, and Rebecca came over to watch her get ready. “I’m so glad they stayed with me, especially because we didn’t have time to do something like a bachelorette and the planning schedule was short, and we didn’t want to have a too formal wedding,” she said. Meanwhile, another friend, photographer Hunter Abrams, came over and started taking photos.
The couple first saw Fouquet’s balcony. Although they believed they weren’t “marriage material,” it turns out they were: “We both got choked up. I just remember Eric kind of hoarsely saying, ‘Look at you,’ and I was trying not to burst into tears,” Willow said. The groom welcomed the bride in a linen Ralph Lauren tuxedo and a pair of Louboutin velvet slippers, along with turquoise and silver Tiffany cufflinks that Willow had given him as a birthday gift a few years ago.
After a risky Uber ride in which the driver had to start the engine, Willow and Eric got married outside a riverside cafe before the storm started. Her brother Bailey played “Here Comes the Sun” – a song they heard the first night they met – while her father served as emcee. (“I asked Eric who he thought should marry us, and without hesitation he said my dad,” Willow said. “Eric called my dad and asked him. Overhearing that call was really helpful. It was one of the highlights of the whole wedding for me.
