On the morning of the wedding, AnnaSophia got ready in one room with her bridesmaids and cousins—everyone was bustling about, sipping champagne, and dancing away. “I was able to sit and observe, and just breathe as Cristin Armstrong and Carolina Gonzalez worked their magic,” she remembers.
Even though AnnaSophia regularly walks the red carpet, choosing a wedding dress was a completely new and different experience for her. “Usually, I’m getting ready for an event or wearing a costume for a character, so I’m constantly thinking about what the dress is saying, and what the narrative of the day or scene is,” she explains. Because of this, it took AnnaSophia a while to figure out exactly which direction she wanted to go.
“I remember the first time I went to Danielle’s studio, my jaw dropped,” the bride says. “Her dresses are unlike anything I had seen: modern and whimsical, yet classic and timeless—a distinct voice in the bridal world.”
Once she landed on her dress, she tried it on so many times during fittings in the lead-up to the wedding, that when the day arrived, it felt like putting on a precious old friend. “I’ll be geeky here for a second for the Lord of the Rings fans out there,” Anna Sophia says. “It reminded me of Mithril–this precious, lightweight, armor that made me feel invincible. The gauzy top layers flowed luxuriously whenever I moved, but because of the structure of the deconstructed corset, I was held in place. The craftsmanship was exquisite. It was a balance of Grace Kelly and something new, something entirely Danielle.”
AnnaSophia chose to accessorize the look with her grandmother’s diamond studs. “She passed at the very beginning of Covid, and I knew it would mean the most to have a piece of her with me on our special day,” she says. Finally, for shoes, her stylist Thomas Kikis reached out to Roger Vivier. “Gherardo and his team were sweethearts, and they rushed me custom platforms and pumps in a size 34.5,” AnnaSophia says. “The pumps were an homage to Grace Kelly and added an extra sparkle.”
At the start of the ceremony, the bride’s friends sang Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” as an homage to the couple’s engagement story. “I didn’t want to miss their performance so our planner set up a speaker behind the barn so I could listen,” AnnaSophia says. “I was feeling really grounded and was more concerned about pumping up Alice, our flower girl, but then as soon as I heard my friends’ voices, I broke down, and my dad and I just got to have a quiet moment together, before walking down.”
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