Vogue
I am an experienced writer and editor who has worked across mediums to produce informative, beautiful, and engaging content. Throughout my career, I have written about diverse topics including interior design, weddings, fashion and beauty, travel, and entertainment. In my past editorial positions, I managed teams of writers, organized tentpole projects, tailored content to SEO goals, and orchestrated original photo shoots with celebrities for large features. As a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I am a strong advocate for awareness and equality in my work.
My past positions include:
Senior Editor at Brides
Editor at Lonny Magazine
Senior Associate Editor at Lonny Magazine
Associate Editor at Lonny Magazine
Freelance Digital Producer and Writer at Martha Stewart Weddings
Digital Editorial Intern at Martha Stewart Weddings
Editorial Intern at The Hollywood Reporter
Editorial Intern at Los Angeles Magazine
Life & Style Staff Writer at The Student Life
Vogue
Don't slide into these wedding planning pitfalls.
Keep the party going with these tips from industry experts on how to plan the perfect wedding after-party.
What you need to know about the process of creating a custom ring design.
Everything to know about finding the best wedding band for your celebration.
"It was so magical and really felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience," said bride Nicole Wong of the post-wedding celebrations in L.A.'s Chinatown, where lion dancers came through the banquet hall and led guests on a parade through the streets.
Surrounded by the golden colors of fall foliage, newlyweds Mary MacGill and Terrence Breschi hitched a ride on her father's Land Rover to head to their reception.
With so many beautiful locations around the world available to rent for your big day (or weekend), it takes some strategic decision-making to make sure you are choosing the wedding venue of your dreams.
Whether it's pantsuits for the bride, or dresses cut for all genders, there's no need to go the traditional gown route in 2023-however you might identify.
As soon as you say "I do" to joining a wedding party, you're also saying yes to quite a few financial obligations. Here, find Vogue's guide to making sure you budget properly as a bridesmaid.
Some of the top wedding videographers in the business share their insights-so you can hire the right team to capture the important moments of your big day.
With both a Hindu and a Sikh ceremony, Tiwinkle Khurana's vision for her wedding was equally spiritual and stylish.
Find the perfect finish for your ceremony look.
How to pick the perfect photographer to fit your aesthetic-according to the experts.
Here's how-and why-couples are tricking guests into attending surprise ceremonies.
Want to know the biggest wedding dress trends for 2024? Read ahead to see what shined at the latest shows.
This low-key, intimate wedding trend is all about love, connection, and joy.Here, find Vogue's guide to executing a dinner party wedding.
Because you only want the best blooms for your big day.
Allure
As TikTok users panic about tweens running amok in Sephora, one mid-2000s mall rat recalls her own fond memories of the store and offers tips for guiding Gen Alpha through its aisles.
Similar to wearing a rainbow flag pin, short nails are traditionally a coded way for queer women and nonbinary folks who date women to identify one another. But today, many people are reinterpreting the "nail code" to suit their personalities and preferences.
Time
The Knot
What is a sustainable wedding? Use our expert guide on eco-friendly ideas for planning a sustainable wedding that leaves a positive impact on the planet.
In the beginning planning stages you're wondering, how much does it cost to be a bridesmaid? Find out in our guide with tips for how to discuss expenses.
Birth month flowers are a special way to add a touch of you & your partner to your special day. Use our roundup as your source of inspiration.
With our favorite products & ideas, start collecting your rehearsal dinner decorations to ensure you have a show-stopping pre-wedding event.
Brides
Shelby Wax is a former Senior Editor of Brides. She covered Real Weddings and trending stories for the publication.
These are the best wedding photographers and planners of 2022, as selected by Brides editors.
"Harry Potter" actress, filmmaker, and author Bonnie Wright married Andrew Lococo at The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, California. The wedding for 110 guests placed a focus on creativity, sustainability, and community.
From designing a menu to picking out florals to carry down the aisle, we packaged up everything in one place to help you curate your dream spring wedding.
Frankie Grande and Hale Leon Grande discuss their love story and why they moved their wedding venue from Walt Disney World to support LGBTQIA+ rights.
President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act at a celebration on The White House's South Lawn on December 13. See all the details ahead.
Based on Weddings & Money 2021: A Brides & Investopedia Study, we broke down how the wedding boom is impacting couples, guests, and planners.
We consulted with astrologers to discover the best zodiac matches for long-term romance and compatibility. Here, experts explain why certain astrological signs are more compatible in love than others. Find out if your partnership is a match blessed by the cosmos here.
Planning your honeymoon for 2023? Check out Brides' list of the hottest honeymoon destinations for the year! Discover destinations like Sedona, Arizona, Sri Lanka, The Loire Valley, and more.
We've rounded up Mira Zwillinger's latest Spring 2024 bridal collection Awakening, and past bridal collections we love.
We gathered our favorite, and most bridal, red carpet looks from the 2022 Oscars. From white dresses to gowns, see the Academy Awards fashion here.
Want to know the wedding trends for 2023? Ahead, we discuss with wedding industry experts what will be popular in the coming year.
From glowy makeup looks to statement hairstyles, discover the top bridal beauty trends for 2023. Get inspired for your big day with Brides.
Whether your wedding style is beachy or boho, classic or casual, one of these wedding updos is bound to be just perfect for you. Scroll to see inspiration from real brides.
"Queens" actress Naturi Naughton and manager Two Lewis got married at the St. Regis Atlanta with guests including Montell Jordan, India Arie, and Danielle Brooks.
MARA founder Allison McNamara and hairstylist Cassondra Kaeding hosted an elegant bohemian wedding in Tulum, Mexico.
Isle of Paradise Founder Jules Von Hep and Mark Beverlo hosted a chic sustainability-focused wedding in The Netherlands with a focus on their guests and a touch of camp.
Peloton instructor Olivia Amato and Daniel Waldron hosting a stunning wedding weekend in Ireland filled with tradition, music, and bold fashion moments.
Actors Jason Gotay of "Gossip Girl" and Michael Hartung hosted a stunning wedding in Upstate New York with performances and nods to the LGBTQIA+ community.
"Selling Sunset" star Vanessa Villela and Nick Hardy hosted a grand family-focused wedding at The Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, California.
Timeless weddings are defined by their neutral color palettes, classic details, and traditional format. If you love the idea of planning a timeless ceremony and reception, we're sharing expert-approved ideas to consider from wedding planners and photographers.
Lunden Stalling shares how she and her now-fiancé Olivia Bennett both planned a surprise proposal with hired photographers at the exact same moment.
Don't follow the typical relationship template. Here's how you can move at your own comfortable pace into your wedding day.
Business of Home
A multistory Malibu beach property complete with a bubblegum pink exterior and a unique modular construction has posed an interior design challenge for deca...
Lonny Magazine
We're highlighting the rainbow of talent within design.
The design world still has ways to go.
The famous chef and philanthropist talks sustainability.
Anja Charbonneau's gorgeous Portland retreat.
Scroll through an Instagram feed, and you'll most likely notice something starkly similar. There's a select choice of hues and typefaces that seem repeated all around. It feels clean and sleek, with an occasional dose of pastel. Minimalism has taken over branding and it looks like it might be her...
Three amazing women-focused charities fighting homelessness in America.
Creatives reflect on their design mentors.
Lonny's Senior Associate Editor stepped up her design game.
The Hollywood Reporter
Cast reunions ran rampant at the 2015 TV Land Awards on Saturday, as the stars of past hits Freaks and Geeks, Ally McBeal, The Wonder Years and the recently wrapped Parenthood were celebrated for their work.
After eight months on the festival circuit, the cast and crew of Adult Beginners will finally see their film hit theaters and iTunes on April 24. This Wednesday, stars Nick Kroll and Rose Byrne, along with the production team, hit the red carpet at the Arclight Hollywood for a night of celebration with friends.
"I was very, very young when I started to want to be a filmmaker," says French director Benoit Jacquot. "I must have been 11 or 12 years old." At 68, Jacquot has finally hit his career peak. The writer-director of 2012's critically acclaimed Farewell, My Queen premiered Diary of a Chambermaid on February 7 at the Berlin Film Festival.
If you're only following actors on Instagram, then you're doing it wrong. Writers, directors and producers also have some of the hottest accounts on the platform thanks in large part to the behind-the-scenes pics and peeks you get when you click "follow."
The cast and crew of Warner Bros.' Focus were in high spirits Tuesday night at the film's premiere at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. "I'm so happy it is almost sad," Will Smith told The Hollywood Reporter.
This story first appeared in the Feb. 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The Grand Budapest Hotel's society of crossed keys - a secret fraternal order of concierges who come to the rescue of the hotel's fictional Monsieur Gustave ( Ralph Fiennes) - not only is based on an actual society of concierges, but there also are 55 members of the group in L.A.
Los Angeles Magazine
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo L.A. Life and Style Clairvoyant Naha Armády is a crystal baller ➻ "I get a lot of clients who are not mystical or spiritual-left-brained lawyers and accountants. And because it's L.A., I have tons of industry people. Creative types are naturally into what I do."
L.A. Life and Style For Alexis Benveniste, getting into sticky situations is all in a day's work "Clients have to get into compromising positions for Brazilian waxes. Yoga poses are good-I do baddha konasana, which is soles of the feet together, with knees out.
The Graceland actress tells us her top picks for the perfect cocktail dress, an exclusive night out, and an outing at the beach
drivingselfie Why duck faces don't belong behind the wheel Imagine driving down PCH just as the sun is just beginning to set. As you look out at the beautiful scenery, that primal millennial urge takes hold and you whip out your cell phone. A simple Snapchat won't hurt anybody right?
The Student Life
Steve Comba has been a familiar face at the Claremont consortium since 1986, not only as a graduate student and Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA) assistant director and registrar, but also as an artist. From April 26 to July 13, Comba will be showing his art piece Arboretum with the Claremont Museum of Art, an organization that he helped establish nearly a decade ago.
At the conclusion of Billie Jean King's talk at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, speakers blasted "Philadelphia Freedom," a song Elton John wrote for her, as she lobbed autographed tennis balls out to the audience. The entire crowd-which filled the Athenaeum to its maximum capacity-was on their feet cheering as King left the stage.
Actors boil with rage, collapse into tears, put on airs of seduction, and jump about the stage while wearing ridiculously extravagant wigs and 17th-century garb in the Pomona College theater department's production of Molière's Tartuffe, or The Impostor, which opened yesterday and will show through March 9.
"Disability forces us into the places we don't want to go," said Mia Mingus, an organizer and educator who spoke about disability justice and transformative justice at Pitzer College on Feb. 7. Mingus' observation was directed not only to those with disabilities, but also to everyone who comes in contact with disabilities.
Douglas Day Stewart CM '62 could have a movie made about his dynamic and tumultuous life story. But there would be no need: The famous screenwriter has already written four movies that draw on his personal experiences, along with several other scripts' worth of unpublished material.
The newest installment of the Project Series at the Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA), contemporary artist Andrea Bowers' #sweetjane, breaks both artistic and spatial boundaries. Bowers investigates and comments on the Steubenville rape case in an exhibit that spans two campuses, with half the collection located at Pitzer College's Nichols Gallery and the other on display at PCMA.
Krunk Fu Battle Battle is so ridiculous that strobe lights go off and actors begin seizing whenever the title is uttered. The Pomona College Theatre Department musical, directed by Pomona professor Joyce Lu, is a smorgasbord of cheese, pop, breakdancing, and racial stereotypes.
This weekend, the Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance brought the uplifting true story Stand and Deliver to the stage. Pomona theater professor Alma Martinez directed a cast of 20 in the ensemble piece about an inspiring teacher who led struggling students at the East Los Angeles Garfield High School to pass the AP Calculus exam.
Art and Activism in the U.S., a showcase of art that has influenced change in America, opened in the Pomona College Museum of Art ramp gallery Jan. 22. Frances Pohl, the Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds '56 Professor in the Humanities and Art History, was the sole curator of the exhibit, which is comprised of pieces from the museum's permanent collection that were made within the last 90 years.