In November of 2021, fashion stylist Andrew Mukamal connected with registered nurse Connor Bailey on Hinge, and the two had their first date over Thanksgiving weekend at Felice 83 on the Upper East Side. (At the time, both were living just a few blocks from the restaurant.) They started dating shortly thereafter and got engaged on 22 July 2023 in Central Park.
“After a typical Saturday lunch at The Mark, a few blocks from our apartment on East 76th Street, we walked into the park to spend the afternoon watching the roller skaters at the skate circle behind Sheep’s Meadow with a bottle of wine,” Andrew remembers. “We love the music they play – and the people watching. We settled into our usual spot under our favourite tree, and when Connor suggested I open the bottle of wine, I reached into the tote bag I had carefully packed that morning and pulled out a small Goyard ring box that contained a custom black ceramic band from Taffin that I’d designed and picked up months earlier.
Sitting there on our big black blanket, hand in hand, I asked him to marry me. Tears in his eyes, and in a state of shock and surprise, he said, ‘Yes, of course.’ We kissed and opened the special bottle of Dom Pérignon I had packed instead of our usual rose to celebrate.
” The couple was married on 31 August 2024 under a floral arch of white hydrangeas created by Julia Testa in front of the sea lion tank in the Central Park Zoo. “[From the start,] we knew we wanted to get married in.