The Groom Wore Asparagus: Tess and Connor's Pacific Northwest Garden Wedding

The stem pinned to Connor's lapel was not a flower. Florist Kylie Hale tucked a spear of asparagus in beside the white blossoms of his boutonniere, a small green signal of what the day was about. Tess and Connor married outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, in a garden setting kept deliberately small, with the people who mattered gathered close enough to notice details like that one. The couple held a Korean paebaek ceremony as part of the celebration, and the dinner that followed was planned for guests who care about what is on the plate. A reader in Beverly Hills would recognize the instinct: let one well-chosen object announce the whole afternoon, and build the rest to match it.

With reporting from Green Wedding Shoes.