![]() Meanwhile Dorian was playing a series of games, set up by Sandy’s sister, devised to prove his love for the bride. Her hair stylist, artist Lizzie Arneson, twisted her locks into an intricate twisted bun, and make-up artist Sena Murahashi dabbed on nude lipstick. Afterward, she changed into a custom crimson silk jacket and skirt made by Chinatown shop Noble Madam. ![]() After giving red packets to her sister, cousin, and best friend – considered tokens of good luck in Chinese culture – she had a bowl of tangyuan and poured tea for her parents. Sandy began the day by burning incense and then getting her hair brushed by her mother. So on 28 May the two held a traditional Chinese banquet at her family’s restaurant in Flushing, Queens. Upon their return, Sandy’s father asked what she describes as his “kind of fortune-teller, spiritual-advisor man” to pick the luckiest day for their wedding. Apparently I was babbling – not in a crying way, just in a happy way.” “We were the only people there – it was just so serene and vast,” Sandy says. Fast forward eight years later, and Dorian proposed in a vineyard on the Venetian island of Mazzorbo. But as the saying goes, sometimes love comes when you least expect it. Neither, really, was Dorian: he was just finishing up his master’s degree in architecture at Yale, commuting from New Haven to New York on weekends to look for a job. “I was having fun being single,” she says. At the time, Liang – the fashion designer behind the beloved New York label Sandy Liang – wasn’t looking for anything serious. In 2016, Sandy Liang and Dorian Booth matched on Bumble.
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