Issue link: http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/1545128
Wedding A whimsical card illustrated by artist and bon vivant Donald Robertson came in the post with the request to save the date for the nuptials of Talley Hodges and Will Pike on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at Millers Run Farm in Georgetown, Kentucky. I had known this would be coming a year prior, when I traveled to New Orleans for a girls' weekend at the Hotel Saint Vincent. One of my dearest friends, Jane Scott Hodges, asked me to her elegantly appointed Garden District home for cocktails, and when I arrived, I found her dining-room table completely covered in invitations — sort of an IRL Pinterest board. In her gracious Southern drawl, she told me, "They are all June 7, 2025 Talley Hodges + Will Pike By Billy Fong. Photography The Browns. inspirational. I've kept them for years for when the time came to help [her daughter] Talley with her wedding planning." After some discussion over a coupe of champagne, I learned that Talley's fiance, Will Pike, had recently asked her father, Philip, for her hand in marriage, with the ceremony being scheduled for the following summer in Kentucky. Talley and Will's meet-cute had been arranged over a dinner in Dallas by their friend Lion Creel in 2021. Fast forward to June 2024, when the happy couple were on the Amalfi Coast for a romantic getaway. One evening, there was a change of plans involving a boat. Will got down on one knee with a ring … and I think you know the rest. 46