Three years later, Lindsay, a creative interface coordinator at Victoria’s Secret Direct, and Stephen, a stock broker, were married at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park. “I had always gone to sweet sixteens and bar mitvahs there, so it made me feel at home,” says Lindsay. “And the land is just beautiful.”

Lindsay chose June 20, 2009 (her grandmother’s birthday, since she was to be married with her grandmother’s wedding ring), and envisioned a day filled with flowers and sunshine. She then hired Cathy Dormer from Conroy’s Flowers in Morris Plains to make her dream come true. “Lindsay wanted a fairy tale, and I wanted to give her just that,” says Dormer, who works alongside Lindsay’s mother, Joane, at the shop. “I have known Cathy since I was 13. She is like a second mother to me,” says Lindsay.

Dormer followed Lindsay’s color scheme of ivory and gold using peonies, orchids, roses, carnations, calla lilies, and freesia. But that summer day did not hold up on the sunny part of the deal. “It was pouring and we had to move everything inside,” says Lindsay. “But not once did I let the weather bring me down.”

Lindsay walked down the aisle in a pale-gold silk-strapless A-line Melissa Sweet gown with an ivory silk appliqué. Her six bridesmaids wore pale-gold strapless Jim Hjelm dresses, while Stephen and the groomsmen chose Ralph Lauren black tuxedos with gold vests. Since Lindsay is Jewish and Stephen is Christian, the ceremony was presided over by both a rabbi and a priest and was spoken in English and Hebrew.

At the reception, 280 guests (Dormer being one of them) were greeted by the couple’s initials created with white carnations on the front door, a life-size tree made of white cherry branches at the entrance to the reception hall, and high-rise glass cones filled with orchids, white roses, and peonies as the table centerpieces. “My flowers were unbelievable,” recalls Lindsay.

As the newlyweds entered, the Craig Scott Orchestra played “Sandman” by Metallica—a song Stephen chose as an homage to the New York Yankees and the Virginia Tech football team. The couple also sang to Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on A Prayer,” using a tambourine and a cowbell. “No one stopped dancing the whole night,” says Lindsay.