A Shared Appreciation for ‘Sex and the City’ Leads to a Long Distance Romance

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Posted July 19, 2024

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A Shared Appreciation for ‘**** and the City’ Leads to a Long Distance Romance

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In the summer of 2016, Lauren Cassandra Garroni created an

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account with her friend Chelsea Fairless that set out to log every outfit worn on the television show “**** and the City.” The duo’s encyclopedic knowledge of fashion history — they met as undergraduates at the Parsons School of Design in New York in 2008, but both live in Los Angeles — and playfully sardonic captions at

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quickly attracted a huge audience of style and pop culture fans alike. The account currently has almost 750,000 followers. (They now include fashion from the sequel “And Just Like That”.)

They assumed very few of those followers would be ************* men. A peek at their analytics early on revealed that eight percent of their audience were men, prompting Ms. Fairless to write a post asking their straight male followers to “make themselves known.”

“It wasn’t even about finding me a boyfriend,” said Ms. Garroni, 36, who has worked in social media marketing and fashion writing, and recently co-wrote and directed her first feature film, an upcoming ******* thriller called

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She and Ms. Fairless also host a fashion podcast, “Every Outfit,” which debuted in 2021.

One such follower was Timothy Paul Glover, 34, who goes by his middle name, a graphic designer and founder of the design firm Bookplate Studio. When he saw the post, he felt his “number had been called” and replied, “I identify as a Steve-Aiden hybrid with Harry tendencies,” referring to three of the most amiable love interests on the show. Appreciating his comment, Ms. Fairless encouraged Ms. Garroni, who happened to be single and looking at the time, to message him directly.

Mr. Glover, who grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., received a bachelor’s degree in fine and studio arts from the University of New Mexico. Ms. Garroni, who grew up in Los Angeles, received a bachelor’s of fine arts from Parsons.

Ms. Garroni fired off a message that now makes her cringe. “Hey, your comment was

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stories, he noticed that she was visiting his city.

They met up for a drink in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn in July 2017. “I did it mostly for the story. I wasn’t thinking it’d be a long-term romance or anything,” Ms. Garroni said. “My first impression was, ‘Oh, this is really easy. Too bad he lives 3,000 miles away.’”

The pair went out a few more times when Ms. Garroni found herself on the East Coast, but such a casual connection was ultimately not something she was interested in. Though they stopped going out, they kept tabs on each other over the years through social media.

In 2022, Mr. Glover was making more frequent trips to Los Angeles for work, and Ms. Garroni reached out to suggest they give it another shot. They met for clams casino and Pinot Grigio at the restaurant Little Dom’s in the Los Feliz neighborhood that fall. “It hardly felt as if the pause had created some kind of a gap or chasm to leap over,” Mr. Glover said. “It was as easy as it was in the beginning, and even more undeniable.”

Still, the chasm of their opposite coasts remained. “I think I had been dating long enough that I had become a pure Miranda,” Ms. Garroni said, referring to the “**** and the City” character known for her cynicism, and about whom she and Ms. Fairless wrote a book in 2019, “We Should All Be Mirandas.” “He wasn’t going to uproot his life and move to Los Angeles for me.”

But Mr. Glover felt ready for a change. Over Thanksgiving 2022, spending time with his brother’s family living in Burbank, “I really enjoyed being Uncle Paul, hanging out at the house with the kids. And I also enjoyed having a fabulous tour guide, somebody I couldn’t deny my interest in,” he said. “The feeling of limerence was developing.”

Ms. Garroni, too, had grown up. Per the dating theory that Miranda posits in the third season of the show, each had turned on their taxi lights to signal their readiness to settle down. “We’d become more stable adults, keeping their eyes out for what might become the next phase,” Mr. Glover said. He stayed through Christmas, and “By then, we had figured he was moving to L.A.,” said Ms. Garroni.

A year later, in November 2023, Mr. Glover planned an anniversary dinner at Mr Chow, a restaurant in Beverly Hills that Ms. Garroni has long loved. “I don’t want to burst anyone’s romantic bubble, but I sort of knew he was going to propose,” Ms. Garroni said. “We’re in our mid-30s.”

The restaurant was a red herring, as he then took her for a nightcap at another storied Los Angeles spot, the Sunset Tower Hotel. There, he placed a ring box on the bar and asked her to be his wife.

Though the couple has a shared passion for style, they loathed the idea of a big wedding. “No disrespect, but the need to have something with the feel of a gender reveal or something like that is not us,” Mr. Glover said.

But Ms. Garroni had lost several family members during the pandemic. The ******* to reunite with their loved ones in a moment of celebration ultimately overrode the initial inclination to elope, she said.

Binge more Vows columns here and read all our wedding, relationship and divorce coverage here.

They made decisions with ease in mind, holding their wedding at the Mulholland Tennis Club, where Ms. Garroni’s parents had been members for decades, on July 13 for 92 guests. Mr. Glover designed their invitations and wedding website, emphasizing the *****-back nature of their nuptials in his choices of typography and colors. “The look is casual, sort of California. It’s got a signage look, like you might see it advertising a special price on avocados,” he said.

In another connection to the @everyoutfitonSATC account and podcast, a follower named Annie Campbell, who owns a catering and event production business in Los Angeles, served as the wedding planner. The ceremony was officiated by Jessica Glasscock, a longtime professor of fashion history at Parsons and a mentor to both Ms. Garroni and Ms. Fairless. Ms. Glasscock was ordained by the Universal Life ******* for the event.

At the couple’s request, the ceremony was kept short and without ritual or readings, though they wrote their own vows. “I talked about my journey to Paul. I’m sure many single women can relate to being perennially alone,” Ms. Garroni said. “I watched my friends fall in and out of love very easily, and it was never the same for me until I met Paul.”

Their one nod to tradition was that Mr. Glover didn’t see Ms. Garroni’s gown ahead of time. The bride wore a dress by Vivienne Westwood with a corseted bodice and a short, asymmetric skirt against a billowing train. (The same designer memorably

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the character Carrie Bradshaw for her own ill-fated wedding in the first “**** and the City” film.)

Much like meeting up with Mr. Glover in the first place, wearing the same wedding dress designer as Carrie seemed like a funny opportunity. “If there’s one thing that my life choices have in common,” Ms. Garroni said, “it’s things starting as a bit, and then committing to the bit.”

Mr. Glover wore a suit made at the famed Los Angeles men’s store Sy Devore, for which he shopped for with his future father-in-law, the former film producer and businessman Andrew Garroni, and which he paired with Maison Margiela Tabi loafers. The bride’s style views were not called upon for these particular decisions. “I’ve learned that marrying a man with taste means he has a lot of opinions about things, but they’re all good opinions,” Ms. Garroni joked.

A ********* hour and buffet dinner catered by the Mulholland Tennis Club followed, the latter choice was made to get guests mingling along the stations. Speeches were given by the groom’s best man and brother, James Glover, and Ms. Fairless. “I do confess that I watched Samantha’s maid of honor speech from the ‘**** and the City’ movie on

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in preparation because I really think she nailed the tone,” she said. As far as other references to the show, “I tried to show restraint,” she said, “but it was unavoidable.”

After dinner and amid dancing, with music by D.J. Corin Douieb, the couple served a wedding cake decked with ribbons and a sundae bar with crushed Oreos, gummy bears, cherries and more. Those who wanted to continue celebrating were invited to the couple’s home in the Hollywood Hills, where Ms. Garroni changed into a white Vaquera dress that Ms. Fairless had nudged her toward. “It’s very Carrie Bradshaw, because there’s a giant fabric flower on it,” the bride said.

And just like that, the couple were married, and neither Ms. Garroni nor Ms. Fairless could believe what their

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account had spawned. “It’s been the most beautiful, unexpected thing in my life,” Ms. Garroni said. “It brought me a best friend. It brought me a husband.”

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When July 13, 2024

Where Mulholland Tennis Club, Los Angeles

A Different Kind of Club The venue offered a midcentury aesthetic and panoramic views of the San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles. “A tennis club sounds very fancy, but it’s the very Laurel Canyon version of a tennis club,” Ms. Garroni said. The couple doesn’t play the sport themselves, but they’re interested in trying. “I certainly have wanted to start to play tennis, like anybody else who saw ‘Challengers’ this year,” Mr. Glover said.

Pause for Drama The couple elected to have their officiant, Ms. Glasscock, ask guests to speak now or forever hold their peace if they had any objections to the union. While the phrase may have fallen out of favor with many contemporary couples, “We love a bit of drama,” Ms. Garroni said.

Golden Hour The wedding photographer, the Curries, stole the couple away to take portraits at sunset at a nearby overlook, where they briefly encountered a van tour passing celebrity homes. “We were dodging cars in the middle of Mulholland Drive at golden hour,” Mr. Glover said. “Those moments when we escaped programming by ourselves, those stick out to me.”

A Major Dress Ms. Fairless had previously anticipated that her friend would wear a Bianca Jagger-esque suit for her wedding day, but was delighted by Ms. Garroni’s choice instead to go “all out, full bride” in her dramatic gown. Aside from the connection to the first “**** and the City” film, “Vivienne Westwood is one of the designers that really made us fall in love with fashion when we were younger,” Ms. Fairless said.

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