There was only one degree of separation between Sports Illustrated Swimsuit fashion director and celebrity wardrobe stylist Margot Zamet and Wadsworth “Waddy” Sykes. Margot’s childhood best friend Nicole married Waddy’s best friend Chris in 2024, but the two had actually been trying to set Margot and Waddy up for years before their paths finally crossed at a party. “The second he walked through the door, I thought, ‘Ummm…who the heck is this?’” Margot remembers.
Nicole and Chris quickly went into matchmaking mode, arranging for the two to co-parent their dog while they went on vacation. When Waddy arrived at Margot’s apartment to pick up the dog, Margot joined him in an Uber from the West Village to the Upper East Side to help transport the crate. “Traffic on the West Side Highway was terrible, but somehow, in that car ride, the rest of the world literally stopped,” she says. “We just stared googly-eyed at each other the entire time, pretending to pet the dog so that our hands could touch. I remember thinking, I am about to kiss this man in an Uber at 7 a.m. ‘Sparks flying’ would be putting it very lightly.”
About two years later, in November 2025, Waddy proposed in a way that caught Margot completely by surprise. “Waddy brings me coffee every morning to wake me up, and that morning, it was coffee and a ring!” she remembers. As luck would have it, Waddy was graduating from NYU that same week, and Margot had already planned a party in his honor. “It conveniently turned into an engagement party.”
On September 12, 2026, the two were married at Waddy’s family’s summer house on Canandaigua Lake, a place that has been in his family for more than 60 years. “My family shares the house with our extended family, so about 30 people spend their whole summer there,” Waddy explains. “I grew up playing with my cousins and siblings there every summer. There’s now a new generation of kids—11 of them—doing the same thing and running wild all summer long. It’s very wholesome.”
After the lakeside ceremony, guests traveled 10 minutes up the road to a farm, where cocktail hour and the reception unfolded in a large field overlooking the water.
“Wedding planning wasn’t as difficult as expected,” Margot says. “It’s of course a stressful process, but we really focused on what a fun and exciting time it was for us.” Planners Jaime Abrams and Amanda Lorenzo of Forever Yours Events helped bring the weekend together. “They rocked,” Margot adds. There was, however, one necessary intervention as the wedding approached: “I had to delete TikTok about a month before because I was doom-scrolling way too much wedding content.”
As someone who works in fashion and thinks visually, Margot turned to Canva to help organize all of her ideas in the lead-up to the wedding. “I compiled imagery of the settings and then plugged in pieces from there,” she explains. The same instinct informed her approach to her wardrobe. “I didn’t go overboard with my shopping process but rather kept an eye out for special pieces, and when something felt beautiful to me and right for the venue, I went with it.”
The festivities kicked off Friday morning with a pickleball tournament—a natural choice for a family who spends so much time playing at the lake. Guests were instructed to wear all white, and Margot chose a Wilson tennis skirt set with Gucci sunglasses. “My brothers and I are also super competitive with each other in sports, so I was concerned that they’d beat me, which is exactly what happened,” she says. Waddy, meanwhile, had everyone rank their skill level and devised what Margot describes as a “very robust tournament system.” She adds, “We thought it would be a really fun way to get everyone together and do something active.”
For the welcome party, Margot pulled out a vintage set she had discovered in Sarasota a year earlier. “I just knew it was going to have its moment at some point,” she says. “A very Fran from The Nanny moment.” When she and Waddy discovered that a steamboat was an option for the party, the look immediately came to mind. “I’m pretty sure I booked it without asking any logistical questions.”
Thankfully, the weather cooperated, and the group spent two hours cruising around Canandaigua Lake. “It was the perfect venue to give everyone the lake experience and get to know each other,” Margot says.
Waddy complemented her in cream trousers and a blue collared sweater from Suitsupply.
The following evening, Margot wore Oscar de la Renta’s bouquet dress for the rehearsal dinner. “When I saw it online, I knew immediately I needed to wear it,” she says. “It was elegant and joyful.” Dinner itself was homemade, with the family cooking for everyone, and an Amish farm near the house supplied wildflowers for the tables.
Margot kept her jewelry similarly instinctive—and minimal. “Every once in a while, I have an ick toward jewelry, and I am currently in that state,” she jokes. She wore Tacori diamond studs for both the rehearsal dinner and wedding day.
When it came to her wedding dress, the stylist was equally decisive. Margot chose Danielle Frankel’s Emerson dress, which she had tried on during her very first appointment. “It was kind of a surprised feeling of, ‘Wow, this would be perfect.’ From there, nothing really compared,” she says. “It fit like a glove and just felt timeless.” She paired it with Manolo Blahnik Carolyn pumps and her Tacori diamond studs. Paul Norton styled her hair for the day, while Tracy Murphy did her makeup.
Just as importantly, she wanted a dress she could actually spend her entire wedding in. “I’m not a huge fan of multiple wedding-night changes. I think we’ve lost the plot a bit there,” Margot says. “I wanted our day to be about us and celebrating with our loved ones and not about many outfit changes.”
Waddy wore a custom Alan David suit with Crockett & Jones shoes and a vintage 1968 Patek Philippe watch. Margot’s bridesmaids chose assorted floral brocade dresses, while the flower girls wore Azazie.
One of Margot and Waddy’s close friends, Sev, officiated the ceremony beneath an old willow tree on the family property. Behind them floated the sailboat on which Waddy’s parents had gotten engaged years earlier.
Getting everyone to that willow tree, however, required some orchestration. “From a logistics standpoint, the ceremony was a wedding planner’s nightmare because I was insistent on arriving by boat,” Margot admits. A family friend, Peter Schottland, offered up what Margot calls “the most beautiful boat on that lake” for the occasion. “There’s a joke that Canandaigua Lake is the Lake Como of upstate New York,” she says, “and this really brought that to life.”
Waddy and his parents walked out from the house, while the flower girls began their procession from the playground. Then Margot and her bridesmaids pulled up to the end of the dock in a beautiful old boat, where the groomsmen were waiting to help them ashore. “We were also barefoot and had to throw our shoes on quickly after getting off,” she remembers. “It was a little chaotic but pretty amazing.”
The wedding party processed to the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” a choice that Margot says felt “so upbeat and sweet” with the backyard setting, before she walked down the aisle to “Salut d’Amour.”
Once the ceremony began, the chaos faded away. “It felt surreal,” Margot says. “Everything around us seemed to disappear, especially on the lake, and for those few minutes, it was just the two of us. There was a calmness to it that I didn’t expect. I felt completely present, incredibly happy, and very aware of how special that moment was.”
The newlyweds recessed to Natalie Cole’s “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and later shared their first dance to “L-O-V-E.” “A lot of Parent Trap inspo,” Margot says. “IYKYK!”
Because Margot and Waddy had decided against a first look, they stayed behind for portraits after the ceremony before joining their guests for cocktail hour at the farm. James Macari and Liz Lucsko photographed the weekend, capturing the celebrations at the lake house and the reception at the nearby farm.
For the reception at The Woods, Forever Yours Events worked with a local floral distributor on arrangements, while Sincerely Melissa provided the candles. Tables were dressed in ivory linens with Ginori 1735 dinner plates in Meringa, abundant candles, and assorted white flowers. “I’d like to think I was a chill bride,” Margot says. “I tried not to obsess over every detail. I let my planners do their thing, and everything turned out beautiful.”
Dinner by Partyman was served farm-to-table and family-style—an intentional nod to the communal summers Waddy has spent on the lake with his extended family. “We wanted dinner to feel immersive,” Margot says. “The experience of being with everyone around the lake is so special to us.” Herbed lemon chicken, citrus salmon, rigatoni with vodka sauce, and other crowd favorites filled the tables, followed by a lemon wedding cake with lemon curd filling from Shells Sweets.
The weather also delivered an unexpected wedding present. A brief sprinkle passed through during dinner, which Margot remembers as “actually so romantic,” before disappearing and leaving a rainbow over the celebration. After dinner, Turner Music Productions got everyone onto the dance floor, while drinks from The Woods kept the celebrations flowing.
Eventually, the party moved to Murphy’s Law Pub. Only then did Margot make her sole change of the wedding day, trading Danielle Frankel for a Sykes family hoodie and her favorite Saint Laurent jeans. She also saved one wedding tradition for the bar: the bouquet toss!
Looking back, Margot is still riding the high. “It was everything we hoped it would be and somehow went by in a blink,” she says. “I feel incredibly grateful for the people who showed up for us and for a weekend that felt so personal, fun, and completely us.”
“Mostly, I just wish we could do it all over again.”
