Wed Studio co-founder Amy Trinh and broadcaster Ayo Akinwolere met “the old-fashioned way,” in Ayo’s own words, by “swiping on Hinge.” This was during the pandemic, and Ayo was in Florida visiting his parents, while Amy was at home in London. The couple talked for weeks before they finally met on New Year’s Day 2022.

“He was incredibly hungover from a party the night before, so I asked if he needed a care package,” Amy remembers. “I turned up at Brixton station with remedies, citrus and all this stuff – bearing in mind it was the first time we’d ever met.” The two headed to Five Guys for their first date. “I thought, if we can survive Five Guys on a hangover for our first date, we can probably survive quite a lot together,” says Ayo.

Ayo proposed during a trip to Vietnam in January last year. “Amy is Chinese-Vietnamese, but had never been to Vietnam before, so the trip already felt really meaningful – I knew this was the right moment,” shares Ayo. He had been working with jeweller Castro Smith, a friend of Amy’s, on a bespoke ring, “We ended up creating this unusual two-diamond formation that felt elegant, original and really personal to her.” At the same time, Ayo was liaising with the hotel manager to organise the perfect setting for the proposal, with rose petals and Champagne in the suite. “When we got back to the hotel, Amy thought someone had been in our room already, before bursting into tears when she realised it was a proposal,” adds Ayo.

The couple forwent a wedding planner and decided to do it all themselves. For Amy, this meant making her own wedding dress and those of the flower girls, all based on silhouettes from a previous Wed Studio collection. “They had layers of tulle and crinoline and felt really sweet,” she says. “But they took so much longer than I anticipated to make!”

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