The Bride Wore 7 Bespoke Looks Designed by Her Sister to Her English Countryside Wedding

While Madelyn Wysner and Tyler Hunt both grew up in Pensacola, Florida, they didn’t connect until an Instagram DM in 2021. At the time, Tyler was living in Scotland, and Madelyn had settled in Los Angeles. “After a few months of messaging, I was on a work trip in Paris when I finally sent the text, ‘Hey, we should FaceTime,’” says Madelyn, who is the COO and co-owner of the bridal brand Cinq. “We ended up talking until four in the morning.” She adds, “I remember hanging up and thinking, ‘I have a feeling I’m going to marry this guy.’”

When the two were both in their hometown for the holidays, Madelyn asked if he had any plans for the trip. “He replied, ‘Yeah, planning to take Madelyn Wysner out on a day date that hopefully turns into a night date through our hometown,’” she recalls. After just a few drinks at their first meeting, Tyler, who works in real estate development, convinced Madelyn to cancel her flight home and take an impromptu trip with him to New Orleans. “At 6 a.m., he was waiting outside my hotel, and we set off on the three-hour drive,” she shares. “We never turned on the radio once—we were completely absorbed in conversation. Looking back, that was the moment we started falling in love.” The couple decided to try long distance, visiting each other across the country every other weekend. “Every trip made us more certain we'd found the right person,” says Madelyn. “After two years, Tyler moved to Los Angeles, and the life we’d been building from thousands of miles apart finally began in the same city.”

On May 17, 2025, Tyler made the next move in their relationship while on a trip to the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay in Kauai. The pair were on vacation with Madelyn’s brother-in-law, Collin, and sister, Cinq designer Macye Wysner. “On our second morning, Tyler woke me up at 6 a.m., insisting we take our coffee down to the beach to watch the sunrise together,” remembers Madelyn. “I had a feeling the proposal might happen sometime during the trip, so despite being the least enthusiastic morning person, I was out of bed in seconds.”

Tyler took Madelyn to settle in for the sunrise beneath a 100-year-old tree on the beach. However, the tree actually blocked the view of the sunrise. “Tyler had chosen the spot because it gave us a quiet corner of the beach that felt like it belonged only to us,” she says. “He was nervous in the sweetest way, but so thoughtful and intentional with every word he said. When he asked me to marry him, the world seemed to stand still for a moment.” After she said “yes” and put on an antique, old-mine cushion-cut diamond ring by Aaryah, Macye and Collin popped out from behind the tree, where they had been hiding since 5 a.m. “We laughed, cried, hugged, and then did the only thing that felt right—we ran straight into the ocean, fully clothed,” remembers Madelyn. “It remains one of the happiest mornings of my life.”

As someone who co-owns a bridal brand, Madelyn was naturally very excited to dream up her own wedding day. The bride and groom wanted to host an intimate affair in the English countryside, and chose Wilderness Reserve as the perfect place to bring their 52 guests together for a July 1, 2026 wedding day. “Wilderness Reserve is a collection of historic manors, cottages, and barns tucked among lakes, woodlands, and wide open fields,” shares Madelyn. “Everyone stayed on the estate, which made for morning coffee together, bike rides around the estate dodging the 10,000 lambs that lived there, lake swimming, and all the small moments in between the main events themselves even more special.”

The couple teamed up with Alice Wilkes Design to curate the perfect multi-day celebration. “Alice and her team are by far the best people I’ve ever worked with,” says the bride. “In February of this year, Alice met us at the Reserve, and we spent the entire day walking through the entire estate and dreaming up the perfect wedding.” Madelyn also emphasizes how fun it was planning with Tyler. “He was beyond helpful through the entire process, and it was a fun little first team project for us,” she says. “I swear that planning a wedding with your fiancé is the perfect first challenge to take on together.” Together, they orchestrated a tented, “fire feast” welcome party dinner, the main wedding day, a morning-after lakeside brunch, and an afternoon garden party.

One of the biggest influences on the entire wedding’s aesthetic was Madelyn’s sister Macye, the designer and co-owner of Cinq. “We work together every day, live just a block from one another, and have always shared the same creative language. Because our lives have been so deeply intertwined, it felt only natural that we would approach my wedding the same way we approach everything we create together,” says the bride. “Rather than designing a single wedding gown, Macye created more than seven bespoke looks for every chapter of the celebration, with each piece reflecting a different moment of the weekend and a different part of my personality. Inspired by our shared love of historical dress, art, and cinema, we wanted these gowns to feel as though they were pulled from a museum gallery.” There were also custom Cinq looks worn by Macye, their mother, and bridesmaid Hope Lavine throughout the weekend. “When I look back on the weekend, I don’t just remember the dresses,” the bride adds. “I remember the months my sister and I spent dreaming them up together.”

To get started on the designs, the sisters pulled French antique lace and silks during a trip to Paris a year ahead of the celebration. The first look of the weekend was “my little Cinq Victorian ghost moment,” says Madelyn. Air organza was layered over golden French lace to create a gown with puffed sleeves, a sweetheart neckline, and a billowing Watteau train. “The Watteau was a fun and whimsical addition to the look since the mood board for our guest had a touch of vintage, woodland fairy energy,” she says.

The bride wore the “Madelyn” dress to walk down the aisle. The gown features an intricate bodice and a full skirt accented with draped fabric and a train. “My sister and I knew we wanted it to be a piece that the closer people got to me, the more they could see all of this tiny detailed hand-work done by our amazing atelier,” notes the bride. “We placed broomstick pleats softly into the cotton tulle we used to give the gown that vintage texture and found a lace trim from one of the oldest lace mills in France to thread silk ribbon through the corset to further contour the lines of the silhouette.” She paired the gown with custom shoes by Souliers Dulion made in the same fabric as her dress.

For their garden party, Macye crafted the “Alice” gown, a cotton style named for their wedding planner. “I always knew I wanted one look during the weekend that felt lighter and more relaxed than my ceremony gown, and cotton gave us exactly that feeling,” says Madelyn. Cotton tulle overlay added softness to the style, while glass beads brought a light iridescence to the ruffled sleeves. “Every detail was designed to celebrate the beauty of traditional techniques while feeling effortless enough for an afternoon in the English countryside,” the bride shares.

Tyler complemented Madelyn throughout the weekend in suiting by Ralph Lauren. “He tried on suits at just about every place and fashion house you can imagine and kept coming back to Ralph Lauren,” notes Madelyn. “The quality and tailoring are unmatched and felt so perfect for our vintage-inspired attire.”

The festivities began a week ahead of the wedding as the couple held a joint bachelor/bachelorette party with their closest circle in Paris, complete with a croissant-making class and dinner at the iconic Maxim’s. The “fire feast” was held in the woodlands of Wilderness Reserve on the first night of the wedding weekend, complete with a candlelit dinner, live music, and speeches. “Following the dinner, we had candlelit lanterns for each of the guests to light their way as they meandered back through the fields to their cottages,” says the bride.

The wedding ceremony was held on the banks of a lake below Sibton Manor. “We wanted the setting to feel as though it had simply been discovered rather than designed, so the florals blended seamlessly into the surrounding landscape, with fabric-covered wooden benches nestled amongst native shrubs and wildflowers,” describes Tyler. Madelyn arrived by horse and carriage, and took a long walk with her father to the ceremony setup as “You Are All I See” by Active Child played.

“The instant Madelyn stepped out of the carriage, I couldn’t stop smiling,” remembers Tyler. “As she walked across the meadow toward me, we locked eyes, and everything else seemed to disappear. She has always had a way of making me feel completely at ease, and that feeling carried me through the rest of the ceremony.” Madelyn’s father officiated the wedding, before the couple exchanged vows they wrote themselves. “It felt less like a formal wedding and more like our closest family inviting us into the next chapter of our lives together,” says the groom. After they were pronounced married, the newlyweds recessed as “Be My Baby” played and their guests showered them with flower petals.