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16
ENCHANTED BRIDES ~ FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014
From Darling
Ring Bearer to
Dashing Groom
It's
only fitting that the first time
Sidney Coupet met his future wife, Sarah-
Jane Quessa, they walked down the aisle
together in a wedding. Sidney was serv-
ing as his older cousin's ring bearer and
Sarah-Jane was her sister's flower girl.
"I remember having a crush on Sarah-
Jane and being extremely nervous and
shy, holding her hands walking down the
aisle," Sidney says of that fateful day in
1986. Sarah, on the other hand, remem-
bers things a little differently ­ Sidney
messing up the
walk and having
to teach him how
to do it properly!
The couple stayed
friends from that
point forward, see-
ing each other at
family reunions
from time to time.
It was not until their
sophomore year of
college that their
interactions turned
romantic.
Sidney expressed his feelings for Sar-
ah-Jane when he was 19; driving 12 hours
from Erie, Pennsylvania to pick her up at
his cousin's house in New York City. Over
the course of the drive, Sidney surprised
her with four roses at every pit stop, each
handed over with a note describing the
meaning of the bloom and his intentions.
Sarah-Jane was smitten but held off pur-
suing anything further until they were no
longer long-distance. "It was not until I
completed my medical training when
Sarah and I met up at a family reunion and
decided to date. A year later we were en-
gaged," he says. Sidney's betrothal was
equally as romantic as his initial expres-
sion of affection for Sarah-Jane ­ roses
brought to the table between each of the
couple's six-course dinner, ending with a
white rose and a marriage proposal.
Considering their matrimonial history,
Sidney decided immediately upon plan-
ning their own wedding that he would pay
homage to his ring bearer days with his
own wedding-day ensemble. "I decided
to work with My Grooms Room because it
offered me the ex-
perience of getting
ready for my wed-
ding as opposed
to just picking up
a tuxedo," he says
of his experience
working with My
Grooms Room's Se-
bastian. "I was able
to share my love
story with Sebas-
tian, who not only
tailored the select-
ed tuxedo but was
able to tailor the experience as well . . .
which contributed to my excitement and
enthusiasm of finding the love of my life.
My Grooms Room has such a personable
nature with its customers."
Sebastian describes Sidney's attire
consultation as unusual: "Usually I base
my advice on certain factors, such as col-
ors of the wedding scheme, environment
for choice of fabric, time of year, time
of day, etc. Sidney's situation was very
unique. He showed me a picture of a little
girl and a little boy walking down an aisle
­ and now 25 years later, they were to
walk down the aisle again! He explained
to me that he wanted to surprise her by
wearing the same ensemble as he was
wearing in the picture."
Sebastian fine-tuned Sidney's white
and black ring bearer look into some-
thing elegant and sophisticated. "I first
changed the white tuxedo jacket to an
off-white dinner jacket. . . I then saw that
Sidney had very squared shoulders, so I
decided to give him a shawl lapel for per-
fectly balanced symmetry," he describes.
He switched out the black tuxedo pants
for sleek, jet black tailored dress pants,
and topped off the look with a classic bow
tie and an Egyptian cotton, French cuff
custom-made shirt.
For the pièce de résistance, Sebastian
suited Sidney up with both a cummer-
bund and suspenders ­ "Sidney looked
amazing in both. We decided to use the