“I wanted to celebrate all that is classic and thrilling about Manhattan,” the bride says. “It’s a city that has given me so much, and I wanted our guests to experience that same magic that is so singular to New York.”
, first struck up a friendship with investor Ryan Yamakoshi her freshman year at Boston University. “He was a sophomore, and he and his friends were having a house party, which a group of us went to,” she remembers. “We immediately clicked and figured out we were both from Chicago.” They became best friends almost instantaneously—“same sense of humor, same love for our hometown, similar groups of friends from home and at school,” she explains.
The two had been dating for six years when Ryan proposed on Christmas Eve during a trip to visit Brooke’s mom’s side of the family in. “Ryan knows what a special place Santa Fe is to me, and he really wanted to propose there, as he knew I would love being around my family and in one of my favorite places in the world,” says Brooke.
It took a moment for Brooke to wrap her head around the wedding-planning part of things. “I’d never once in my entire life thought about what my wedding would look like,” she admits. “I wasn’t one of those little girls who imagined her wedding dress. But then I started to think about us, about Ryan and me, and how I wanted to celebrate our life as it had been and what it would be.
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