By
Hilary Reid,
a senior editor at The Strategist.
She has contributed to the New York Times and T: The New York Times Style Magazine and worked for New York Review Books.
This summer has been a big wedding summer: Two of my close friends each got married in the last month, and my sister-in-law is getting married in August. I honestly love going to weddings — to celebrate my friends, of course, but also as an excuse to dress up and, in the case of the two weddings recently, plan a trip. The first was my friend Annie’s on the North Fork in her mom’s beautiful backyard garden. The forecast had been iffy leading up to the weekend, and my friend-group chat was abuzz with texts about what everyone was going to wear if it rained. I’d been planning on wearing a floral silk La DoubleJ dress similar to this one (which I was actually sent after interviewing the founder, J.J. Martin, for “What I Can’t Live Without” in 2019), but at the last minute I chickened out of wearing silk in the (predicted) rain. So I went to Zara the night before we drove out to Greenport and left with this yellow dress that prompted someone to ask if it was Lanvin when I wore it at the wedding (not bad!). Not to mention that the swingy shape was comfortable for grazing on some of the best pickled vegetables I’ve had at the really delicious aperitivo, dancing, and cheering on the other guests as they took a swing at the piñata that came out later in the night.
