Juno was as decisive with her wedding wardrobe as she was with everything else. “I tried on my wedding dress, the Camille by Danielle Frankel, in August of 2023 and immediately knew it was the one,” she says. “My sister had actually guessed it was going to be the Camille before we went to the Danielle Frankel showroom in New York, but I had my eyes on a different dress of hers. Sisters know best though. When I walked out in the Camille and they added the lace shrug and silk grosgrain and pearl belt, I was done for.”
Meanwhile, the bride’s aunt Kathryn Fortunato and her twin sister Lizzie Fortunato’s brand LF Jewels custom-made all her jewellery for the weekend. “We took inspiration from the natural pearls on the belt and made a pair of earrings with a light green, east/west bezel set amethyst and a natural pearl hanging below,” Juno explains. “Those earrings are going to be a part of their spring 2025 assortment launching in January. They’re named the Juno Earrings, which is so fun!” Juno paired her dress with a simple pair of Mary Janes from Aeyde.
The wedding weekend kicked off with a welcome party at The Acoaxet Club. Juno had found her welcome party outfit, the Khaite Bruna dress, a year before the wedding, which she paired with Manolos she found in a Sororite vintage drop and her grandmother’s vintage Ralph Lauren cashmere sweater over her shoulders. For jewellery, she wanted to foreshadow the pearl strand on the wedding dress so her aunts designed a custom double-wrapped natural pearl necklace with a gold clasp and pulled in the light green amethyst with a pair of their fine jewellery charm earrings.
On the morning of the wedding, things got interesting. “Anyone planning an outdoor wedding, specifically one on the East Coast, will hear around 5,000 times throughout their planning process that rain on your wedding day is good luck,” Juno says. “Most people will probably roll their eyes – as I did – and play it off as a way to make the bride feel better about the possibility of her picture-perfect dreams being crushed, but there is something there. Something really really important.”
When it came to planning, Juno controlled every aspect that she could. “I chose dresses for my bridesmaids that would flow in the breeze, I imagined flowers trickling down from the arbour and my perfect soon-to-be husband standing at the top of the hill as I dramatically walked from my childhood home up the field from the water,” she says. “I imagined the gasp of our guests as I walked by myself to meet my parents at the base of the aisle. It was drama, it was breathtaking, it was perfect. There was only one thing that I could not control though… the gosh darn weather.”
