Veronica & Christopher
Elegance by the Pacific

The place

Nobu Los Cabos is all edges — white walls, long shadows, the ocean cut into perfect rectangles. It is a hard place to be soft in. They pulled it off without trying.

We walked past the walls and out onto the sand, where the wind took the dress and the light went pale gold.

The two of them

Christopher in shades, cool as anything until she looked at him. Veronica, sharp and elegant, laughing halfway through her own vows. Friends in tangerine and white who looked like they had stepped off a magazine cover.

What I took with me

A long table under the palms, everyone talking over everyone. Then the lights went down, the flash came out, and nobody in that room was elegant anymore.

Exactly how it should end.