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Ann K. Hubbard
Courtship: Megan Huskey and David Julius met for the first time over a decade ago in high school (although neither can exactly remember how). Fast forward to their junior year at Mizzou, and they lived a couple houses apart from each other near campus, which is when they started running in the same circles. By the time senior year hit, Megan had developed a huge crush on David—but as these things sometimes go, David didn’t feel the same way. She let the feelings fizzle once they graduated and moved back to St. Louis for work.
In the first year after college, Megan and David often found themselves going out with the same group of friends. One night, several months later, David made a move on her, “but I wasn’t really into it,” Megan admits. “I think I had moved on emotionally by then.” The next day, he called to ask her out, and Megan figured she had nothing to lose by giving him another chance. Because it was around the holidays and Megan had to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, the two spent the evening walking around the mall before having dinner at Cafe Provencal. The spark Megan had once felt between her and David returned almost instantly.
Proposal: In April of 2016, Megan and David went to an escape-the-room game with David’s family—a Christmas gift the couple had given to David’s mom the year before. Unbeknownst to Megan, David had arranged for her engagement ring to be incorporated into the game in a locked drawer that could only be opened by a key retrieved through a set of clues. As the game progressed, David’s family, aware of the hidden ring, slowly backed off, so that Megan and David would be the ones to discover it.
“I was so focused on the game, though,” Megan says, “that I barely realized the ring was in the drawer when I opened it! There was some play money inside it, too, so I grabbed that and was like, ‘I think this is the next clue!’” David told her to look back in the drawer, which is when she spotted the ring box. And in the next moment, he was down on one knee. The best part? The game was being recorded and displayed on a monitor in the lobby, so Megan’s parents, who had secretly arrived once the game was underway, got to watch the whole thing.
Ceremony & Reception: Megan and David got married on May 20, 2017 with a ceremony at St. Agatha Church in Soulard and a reception at the Forest Park Visitors Center—a venue Megan chose because it was something different from the often-used downtown options, and it could comfortably accommodate their 200 guests. For décor, Megan was aiming for “rustic and low-key,” she says. “We kept the venue very simple and added some draping to the ceiling beams, but overall, my theme was in the colors.”
The bridesmaids wore pale blue, a color Megan figured would work well for a spring wedding, and the flowers added bright pops of peaches, greens, and golds. Setting the tone for the space was a hand-painted photo backdrop—coral and covered in peonies and poppies—provided by David’s sister-in-law, Ann Hubbard, the owner of photo booth company Oh So Vivant.
The Details:
Ceremony venue: St. Agatha Church
Reception venue: Forest Park Visitors Center
Photography: Carretto Studio
Photo booth: Oh So Vivant
Catering: Catering St. Louis
Dessert: Russell's
Flowers: Flowers and Weeds
Hair: Natalie Beile of Identity Salon and Spa St. Louis
Makeup: Brady Keenan
Dress: Maiden Voyage
Shoes: BHLDN
Jewelry: BHLDN and Tiffany & Co.
Bridesmaid dresses: Bella Bridesmaids
Stationery: Megan Taylor with Notch, Inc.
