For the welcome party at Adam’s family’s apartment in Tribeca, Patricia also assembled her look with the help of her community. A friend who works at an auction house tipped her off when Peggy Moffitt’s archive went to the block, which is where Patricia found a flowy, tiered Rudi Gernreich dress from the ‘60s. “I was there for the preview, and then I ended up winning the dress that I wore,” she says. She accessorized with a pair of knee-high lace-up Free Lance boots, which she borrowed from a friend who owns the downtown vintage store, Fussy, and finished off the look with a vintage Omega watch—a gift from Adam.
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Patricia struggled to find a dress for the wedding itself, which took place at Trinity Church, a historical Episcopalian church in the Gothic Revival style in Manhattan’s financial district. She booked an appointment at celebrity favorite Tab Vintage in Los Angeles. “I got an appointment, maybe in June, for our August wedding. My mom was freaking out,” she says. But luckily, Patricia was connected to Tab’s owner Alexis Novak via their mutual friend, Neverworns host and former Vogue fashion writer Liana Satenstein. “Alexis from Tab reached out. She was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I see you’re still looking for a dress. I can bump your appointment up,’” Patricia recalls. “She was so sweet. The team was genuinely amazing.”
Tab was the last stop on Patricia’s bridal extravaganza. “I feel like I tried on over a hundred dresses,” she says. “I tried on 1950s Balenciaga and Comme from the 2000s, 1980s Bob Mackie, ’90s Vera Wang, ’70s Guy Laroche. We tried on everything.”