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Tom and Olivia wanted their wedding to have an old New York vibe, so The Lotos Club, where the groom is a member, made perfect sense. The fabrics came from Italy, and she worked with a team in Medellin, Colombia on the manufacturing. Watts still launched her eponymous line of hyper-feminine dresses and intricate gloves on Thanksgiving of 2020. I was definitely the oldest one!” She never attained the BFA in fashion design she had in mind 2019 was instead a pivotal year due to her gender confirmation surgery in Thailand-“a rebirth,” she calls it-and then the pandemic happened. Shortly after marrying Tom, chairman of Watts Capital Group and an Oregon native, in their Manhattan apartment in 2017, Olivia went back to school-Parsons this time-to study fashion design: “I started in a one-year program that is meant to prepare foreigners for college. She moved to New York in 2016 after studying fashion design in Bogota and worked as a makeup artist for a while alongside her long-time friend, photographer Andres Oyuela. Olivia was born and raised in Barranquilla, a city famous for its Carnival and for being the birthplace of Shakira. She couldn’t resist the magnolia print on Carrie’s: “I just fell in love with it.” She later changed into the same Oscar de la Renta cocktail dress that Carrie wore in the last episode of And Just Like That. “The embroidery took three months to make in Colombia, all by the same person,” she recalls. Latin American weddings don’t usually include speeches, but her guests did theirs anyway, which she says came with its fair share of tongue ties and mistakes: “And then you saw Tom’s friends, so confident and articulate! But he assured me it didn’t matter how messy it all got it was really lovely.”ĭinner was served at Per Se, where the bride wore a dress she'd designed herself. “I could tell the crowd was truly eclectic during the rehearsal dinner,” Olivia remembers with a laugh. It was also a family reunion of sorts, like many weddings have been in 20, as countries have lifted their respective pandemic-related travel restrictions. “After that, we went to dinner at our favorite restaurant to celebrate.”įive years later, having a larger reception wasn’t a matter of making things official, but of honoring the couple’s connection with the people they love the most-who are usually scattered between the West Coast, Europe, and Colombia. “It was all very intimate,” Olivia recalls. They were married shortly after-six months after their first date, to be exact-in a tiny ceremony in their apartment with her mom and best friend there to witness. Tom proposed with his mother's engagement ring one night after watching Hidden Figures, one of her favorite movies. Olivia Watts met her now-husband, Thomas, on Tinder in 2017.