Sewn Where Only the Couple Will Look

Green Wedding Shoes has been gathering the private gestures of the wedding day, the ones no guest ever sees. It named a locket wound into the wrapping of a bouquet and a father's folded letter carried inside a groom's jacket. The newest of these is sewn into the wedding clothes themselves, a small stitched detail placed where no guest will find it. In a town where a gown and a suit are studied from every angle, the appeal is plain: one thing on the day is kept for the couple alone.

With reporting from Green Wedding Shoes.