Our love story reads a bit like a trade show calendar. Frank Leyon and I first met in Vegas in the summer of 2014, though the fireworks didn’t really start until nine months later over coffee at Maison Objet Miami. Our first dates unfolded in Atlanta and by NYNow we were “well acquainted.” A week in High Point in the fall made us inseparable, and three years later, we purchased a house there.
After 10 years together, Frank popped the question. Thirty-three days later…we became Mr. and Mrs. Today we’re 16 days married.
My friend and publicist, Serena Martin, kept asking—half joking, half serious—if I wanted to issue a press release. I laughed. But it did make me pause. In an industry built on relationships, why don’t we ever report on the mergers rooted in friendship and love—the partnerships that may very well outlast the rest?
When your life overlaps so completely with your work, and your colleagues make up your inner circle, where do you draw the line?
Our wedding was an intimate gathering at The Little White Chapel, witnessed by our children, my sister, and 13 people we love and admire, and who reside in that beautiful blur joining work and play.
So, here I am, unapologetically sharing a moment of joy. Grateful to have a platform that gives space for professional purpose and personal milestones, consider Design News Now the exclusive publisher of our wedding album!
Love does make a good story. Not because it’s going to change the industry (though maybe it can)—but because it’s human and, honestly, splendid.
Photos by Katie Hickenbottom
