Leslie Leeming and Brian Flynn Wedding
October 18, 2008 | Trinity Episcopal Church, Southport; Fairfield County Hunt Club, Westport | Photography by Jane Shauck of Iris Photography, West Hartford
It was one of those “unbelievable deep-blue New England fall days,” says Wilton’s Brian Flynn, of the day he took Westport native Leslie Leeming to be his wife. “There was this incredibly intense afternoon light coming through the stained-glass windows at Trinity [Episcopal Church in Southport],” he recalls. “I tried to imprint that moment on my brain forever.”
Leslie is not surprised. “My husband has a wonderfully romantic way of remembering things,” she says. It’s just one of the reasons she is so “incredibly happy and grateful to have found him.”
The couple, both of whom are in financial services and met on a—yikes!—blind date at SoNo’s Match, held their black-tie reception at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport. “There were two things that stood out about this wedding,” says photographer Jane Shauck of Iris Photography in West Hartford: “A real sense of joy from two people who are very warm and in love . . . and the hats.” Yes, hats. Leslie asked each of the women in her bridal party (including Brian’s daughter Kathleen, then 12) to wear a millinery creation of her choice. “They added a sense of fun and class to a day that already had a cosmopolitan vibe,” says Shauck. Everyone was “struck by their beauty,” says a thrilled Leslie.
Struck, that is, when their eyes weren’t glued on Leslie, who was stunningly chic in her slipper-satin Vera Wang gown from The Plumed Serpent in Westport, the gold Manolo Blahniks she calls her “Cinderella shoes” on her feet. (Her “prince” bought them as a gift from Mitchells of Westport.) Brian, meanwhile, was resplendent in a midnight-blue crushed-velvet dinner jacket and Chinese-silk waistcoat he had had custom made in London to surprise Leslie, who, he says, “loves to get dressed up.”
The happy couple listened to Nick, Brian’s 15-year-old son and co-bestman, bring the house down with a sentimental toast, and they danced all night to the band they’ve loved since college: Connecticut’s own Eight to the Bar. What’s not to love?
Leeming and Flynn Wedding
