In the lead-up, Andrew and Connor had their hair cut by their friend stylist Cervando Maldonado in L.A. two weeks ahead of the ceremony as they wanted a slightly grown-out look. They also had facials by Fabricio Ormonde in New York the day before the wedding.
The couple knew they wanted to wear black tie, and for the guest dress code to be all-black. For their own looks, they kept things timeless and classic. Connor wore a tailored tuxedo from Armani and Andrew was in a similarly classic Tom Ford tuxedo that his father helped him pick out before he passed away in 2017. “Although he couldn’t be there with us celebrating, it felt like the perfect way to honor his memory and have him there with me for such a special moment in my life,” Andrew says.
Manolo Blahnik was the footwear choice for both grooms, and their shoes were monogrammed with their wedding date on the inner heel. Andrew and Connor’s friend Lorraine Schwartz—who was a guest at the wedding along with her sister Ofira Sandberg—was the only jewelry designer they could imagine entrusting with their wedding bands. She created dome-shaped 18-karat yellow gold bands that were engraved with the couple’s initials and wedding date on the inside.
On the morning of the wedding, both grooms got ready at The Carlyle in complementary Versace robes with their wedding date emblazoned on the back. After getting dressed, they made the walk from the iconic hotel to Central Park, stopped by the tree where they’d gotten engaged in 2023, and then made their way to the zoo for the ceremony.
Andrew’s close friend Rebecca Gargiulo served as the officiant. “She’s been a sister to me since grade school, and we couldn’t have imagined a more perfect person for such a momentous task,” Andrew says. “She found the perfect balance of gravity and humor and had both of us—and all our guests—in tears before we had even gotten to our vows, which we both wrote and read to each other. As if her task as our officiant wasn’t important enough, we also asked Rebecca to bake our dream wedding cake—which she absolutely nailed!”
As the couple stood together, Connor remembers feeling as if the entire world had stopped—and trying to keep the tears to a minimum. “Becca surprised us with who would go first when it came to reciting their vows and luckily I went first,” he says. “I kept taking deep breaths and trying to remember to speak slowly and enunciate every word. We obviously hadn’t read each other’s vows, but when he started reading his, they were so similar to what I had written. It really shined a light on how truly deeply connected our love is.” Having practiced his vows dozens of times after being afraid of “messing them up,” Andrew eventually read his without missing a beat. Adds Andrew: “At the end, we stomped our foot on the glass—a Jewish tradition we chose to include—and finally we’d gotten to the good part: the kiss!”
