Behind every unforgettable wedding is a creative mind bringing a unique perspective to the table. The LGBTQIA+ community has long contributed some of the wedding industry's most innovative, expressive, and boundary-pushing talent. Through fashion, photography, floristry, beauty, and design, they are expanding what weddings can look and feel like, weaving bold concepts and deeply personal stories into every celebration they touch. In this roundup, THE WED spotlights LGBTQIA+ wedding vendors whose work celebrates individuality, imagination, and love in all its forms.
Tanner Fletcher
Romantic, offbeat, and joyfully unbound, New York-based brand Tanner Fletcher has become one of the most exciting names reshaping modern wedding fashion. Now happily engaged themselves, founders Tanner Richie and Fletcher Kasell have long been at the forefront of gender-fluid design, creating a world where masculine and feminine codes move freely. Regulars at New York Bridal Fashion Week and the creative minds behind some of the most exciting celebrity red-carpet looks, Tanner Fletcher uses fashion as a celebration of selfhood, encouraging people to show up as themselves rather than who tradition expects them to be.
Julian Leaver
Based in Texas with a global outlook, Julian Leaver Events takes a focused, design-conscious approach to wedding production. Founder Julian, who has been devoted to the luxury hospitality industry for the better part of two decades, and his team bring an unmistakable creative energy to life in every room they design, every moment they orchestrate, and every couple they have the privilege of celebrating. In 2022, Julian stepped into his own wedding moment, marrying his longtime partner, Francisco, and experiencing firsthand the kind of joy he has spent his career creating for others.
Kaela Leone
Toronto-based photographer Kaela Leone has a sharp eye for style and a soft spot for emotion, an irresistible combination that defines her approach to wedding photography. Working across both film and digital, she creates imagery that feels intimate, expressive, and subtly fashion-inflected, capturing everything from unscripted glances to portraits with an effortless edge. Her work speaks to couples who want photographs that feel honest but never predictable, tender but never overly polished. When Kaela is not behind the camera, you might find her singing covers of soul classics, shooting rolls of personal film, or spending time with her wife and their dogs.
Hamish Powel
Hamish Powell’s hands, floristry becomes a living, breathing art form. Treating plants as both muse and medium, the London-based creative transforms flowers into sculptural installations for galleries, fashion shows, and events around the world. Hamish's distinctive visual language has led to collaborations with some of fashion and luxury’s most influential names, including Loewe, Burberry, Diptyque, Acne Studios, and Saint Laurent. Rather than simply arranging flowers, he builds entire botanical worlds, each one charged with movement, emotion, and a sense of beautiful unpredictability.
Laura Campbell
With heart, humor, and charisma, Perth celebrant Laura Campbell of The Romantic Celebrant knows exactly how to make a ceremony feel personal. She approaches every moment at the altar as a celebration of the people at its center rather than a one-size-fits-all script. From the very first pre-wedding meeting, Laura's easygoing attitude and genuine enthusiasm help couples feel relaxed, understood, and fully themselves. Behind the scenes, she carries that same warmth into her own world, sharing life with her wife, Georgie, and their little boy, Rupert.
Tom Perdigão
Portugal-based makeup artist Tom Perdigão brings a fresh, intuitive eye to beauty, with an approach rooted in innovation, personalization, and a deep appreciation for natural radiance. To work with Tom is to experience makeup artistry that enhances rather than transforms. Believing that no two faces should ever be treated the same, he tailors each look to highlight the individuality, features, and personality of the person in his chair. That sensitivity to identity and self-expression shapes the way he approaches wedding beauty, a world Tom recently experienced from a new perspective when he tied the knot with his partner, André.
Weiderhoeft
Deeply inspired by theater and dance, Jackson Wiederhoeft approaches fashion with a storyteller’s instinct. His New York-based brand is known for collections that feel rich with character, movement, and theatrical tension, brought to life through both intricate design and performance-like runway shows. In Wiederhoeft’s world, garments do not simply sit beautifully on the body — they seem to enter the room with a mood, a role, and a story to tell.
Blake Nelson
For Brooklyn-based photographer Blake Nelson, inspiration rarely comes from a single place. Film, fashion, music, and everyday human connection all feed into a creative process that is constantly evolving, keeping his perspective fresh. That wide creative lens gives his work its distinctive charge, pairing a filmmaker’s sense of atmosphere with a photographer’s instinct for the strange, fleeting, blink-and-you-miss-it details.
Kati Kons
Kati Kons approaches wedding fashion as a space for freedom. The Washington-based stylist has become a go-to for LGBTQIA+ clients seeking wedding fashion beyond traditional binaries. For anyone who has ever felt boxed in by the choice between suit and dress, Kati shows that the most memorable wedding looks are often the ones that break the rules. Kati’s own love story began in high school, when she fell for her now-wife Hannah, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
Harris Reed
For Harris Reed, fashion has always been more than something to wear. It is a language of identity, liberation, and self-invention. Fighting for the beauty of fluidity, the British-American designer has become one of fashion’s most magnetic voices, presenting his collections biannually in London and dressing stars including Adele, Beyoncé, Florence Pugh, and Sam Smith. And yes, we were very much obsessed with every fashion moment from Harris Reed’s own wedding extravaganza in Palermo with partner Eitan Senerman.
Jove Meyer
Jove Meyer has built a creative universe where color is emotion, design is storytelling, and joy is never treated as an afterthought. Whether shaping homes or weddings, he brings a fearless, heart-led perspective to every space, especially for clients who want their celebration to feel anything but ordinary. His work is expressive and imaginative without losing its elegance, bold without overpowering the people at the center of it. Behind every vivid, joy-filled world Jove creates is the steady support of his husband, Kyle.
