Shortly after moving back to Los Angeles post-college, Lindsey Markley and Jesse Weiss were introduced through their childhood best friends – now married high-school sweethearts. After being in each other’s lives for a decade, Jesse proposed with Lindsey’s grandmother’s ring. “Home is our favorite place, so it was just the perfect setting,” remembers Lindsey of their private engagement. “We left for a trip the next morning and got to celebrate with each other all weekend long!”

Planning their nuptials came with a unique advantage: the groom’s mother is renowned celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss. “I had a pretty unique – and very fortunate! – planning experience, considering who my mother-in-law is,” smiles the bride. “Watching Mindy work her magic and being part of the experience really opened my eyes to the amount of care, thought, and intention behind each decision. I am forever in awe and endlessly grateful for Mindy, her team, and all our vendors, knowing how much love and effort went into making it all come together.”

Jesse was naturally very involved throughout the planning process. “It’s in his blood!” says Lindsey. “It was so much fun to watch him and his mom work together to create so many of the special details of the day.” In fact, Jesse shared with his mom a color palette the couple loved as well as inspiration for a patchworked fabric installation that ultimately became the ceremony backdrop. “Mindy was so excited that she loved what we sent, and it became very easy to design around our visions,” the bride adds.

The groom is forever grateful for his mother’s ability to layer meaning into every detail. “The big-set pieces were so gorgeous and obviously incredible, but she knows how much the small significant details mean to us and our relationship,” Jesse shares. “I really just don’t think anyone adds personal touches like my mom does.” From a custom placard on the chuppah and messages sewn into their nieces’ dresses and nephew’s tie to the ornate dinner menus at each guest’s place setting and personalized sweatshirts provided for revelers at the after-party, nothing was overlooked.

Lindsey was absolutely radiant as she walked down the aisle to Lana Del Rey’s beautiful rendition of “Unchained Melody.” She wore a stunning lace bridal gown with a long-sleeved topper and carried a bouquet of dahlias, Antonia garden roses, goldenrods, lisianthus blooms, grevilleas, sweet peas, and butterfly ranunculuses in warm tones of coral, yellow, and burnt orange.

The Jewish ceremony took place beneath a chuppah lovingly built by the groom’s brother, and it was officiated by the same rabbi who nostalgically led Lindsey and Jesse’s respective bat/ bar mitzvahs. “The entire ceremony from start to finish was a dream come true,” notes the bride. “The trees, the chuppah, the draping, the chairs, the guests – every bit of it was truly a work of art.”

To close the ceremony on a joyful note, the newlyweds recessed to Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” – “because we really do love LA!” says Lindsey of the song choice. “It was so much fun, so unexpected, and so us.” Jesse agrees: “We are both Los Angeles through and through, so we definitely wanted to give a nod to the city.”

“I am forever in awe and endlessly grateful for Mindy [Weiss], her team, and all our vendors, knowing how much love and effort went into making it all come together.”

After the “I dos,” guests were welcomed into a breathtaking cocktail space inspired by Old Hollywood films of the 1940s and ‘50s – a nod to the groom’s love of the movies. Showcasing dramatic draping, lamp posts suspending flower arrangements, illustrated design elements on the bar and around the perimeter, and live trees mingled with colorful florals and garden-inspired lounge seating, the room was designed to feel like an alfresco scene from a bygone era.

Inside the exquisite reception space, winding golden serpentine tables, as well as round and oval tablescapes topped with striped or solid linens, were surrounded by green velvet chairs and topped with elaborate multicolored centerpieces in warm hues of peach, yellow, rust, and mocha. “Even though all centerpieces contained the same florals, no two were alike!” affirms the bride of the artfully arranged pieces highlighting sweet peas, protea pincushions, gloriosa lilies, Edith roses, chocolate cosmos, orchid varietals, carnations, Charlotte ranunculuses, and more, all illuminated with glimmering votives and taper candles.

The revelry kicked off with a celebratory hora. “It was the perfect way to energize the room and bring our guests together in a joyful and unforgettable moment,” says Lindsey. Jesse adds, “We wanted to make sure when people weren’t eating they were up having fun on the dance floor.” In fact, music was central to the entire celebration. “From the ceremony all the way through the after-party, the music set such an incredible tone and energy,” Jesse affirms. “You could feel the collaboration between the spaces and music… the emotional components of the ceremony, the Old Hollywood tunes for the cocktail hour, and then the band just turning it up to 11 for the reception.”

“It really was the best day of my life,” Jesse confirms of their magical wedding day – in the city they love so much, planned side by side with his beloved and his mom. Lindsey wholeheartedly agrees: “It was perfect, and I feel so lucky and grateful.”

This real wedding was originally published in the Fall 2025 issue of Inside Weddings magazine. 

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