The Bride Wore Galia Lahav to Her Darkly Romantic Wedding on the Island of Maui
Jade Iovine, the host and creator of iHeartRadio’s Tell Me About It podcast, likes to joke that marrying Dylan Satin is the only thing she’s ever manifested. The two first became friends while they were both at the University of Miami. “I actually met Dylan on one of the very first nights of my freshman year,” Jade remembers. “A high school friend of mine was a sophomore at UM, and I went to his house to hang out nearly every night those first couple weeks because I didn’t know anyone yet.”
On her third night in the city, her friend mentioned that his roommates were arriving back in Miami after summer break any minute—and one of those roommates happen to be Dylan. She quickly found out that he was two years older, and also from L.A. “While I torture Dylan about not remembering meeting me, I remember it vividly and I was lovestruck from that instant,” Jade admits. “I also learned that night that he had a girlfriend, and while I was absolutely gutted, nevertheless, I persisted! My friends can attest that for the next two long years, I was not-so-subtly obsessed with him. The adoration I felt went painfully unrequited until we were both single and among the few people who enrolled in summer school that year, spending our days alone, studying—sort of—and definitely a little bit desperate for companionship. Falling in love that summer in the sticky Miami heat is a memory I still love coming back to.”
In late October of 2021, under the guise of a trip to celebrate Dylan’s 30th birthday, Jade and Dylan returned to their old stomping grounds. They spent the first two days of their trip to Miami walking down memory lane: visiting their school for the first time since they graduated; the apartment building where Jade lived when they first started dating; the house where they met; and, of course, all of their favorite restaurants. “To be honest, the thought that Dylan might propose on this trip had started sneaking into my brain,” Jade says. “I was pulling out every therapy trick in the book to tamp down my nerves and excitement for the sake of poor Dylan’s birthday weekend.”
On the day of the proposal, they lay by the ocean for hours before Dylan mentioned they had dinner plans with a couple of friends. “No alarm bells went off for me,” Jade remembers. “We walked past the restaurant and onto the beach, past a huge path and a heart made out of red roses—and after nervously thinking we were about to interrupt someone else’s proposal, I finally realized what was happening.”
Dylan proposed with a ring he had designed with jeweler Alber Rezko, and as the two ate dinner on the beach and excitedly called their relatives and friends, he played videos he’d taken chronicling every step leading up to the proposal: him on the way to ask Jade’s dad; recordings of him telling her mom, siblings and best friends; meetings he had with her sister and the jeweler. “In true Dylan fashion, he had sweetly told everyone in our lives when and what he was planning, including every waiter, grocery store clerk, and pedestrian he encountered along the way so the only person who was remotely surprised was me—and my therapist was truly the only person I got to break the news to,” Jade jokes.
After the engagement, the two quickly settled on a destination for their wedding: Maui. “Coincidentally, Dylan and I both grew up going to Maui every year with our families,” Jade says. “My fondest childhood memories are from these trips, and Dylan and I learned shortly after we started dating that it was a really sentimental and meaningful place for both of us.” They started going on vacation there as a couple and fell in love with it all over again. “I remember sitting in the hotel pool when I was a kid and watching people get married there, and quite honestly I decided on the venue then, 20-something years before I was even engaged,” Jade explains. “Luckily, Dylan felt the same way and there was never a question for either of us—it was by far the easiest decision of the entire planning process.”
Next, they began the search for an event planner—and when they met with Jeffrey Best and his team, they immediately knew they were in the right hands. “For better or for worse, my vision for the wedding weekend was crystal clear even before we started planning, and I knew with certainty exactly how I wanted our wedding to look and more importantly, to feel,” Jade says. “Jeffrey and his team took a normally stressful process and turned it into a celebration, putting so much care into every little moment and executing beyond our wildest imaginations.”
On the first day of the wedding, Jade and Dylan hosted guests for a “night swim” welcome party at the hotel. “We encouraged everyone to wear bathing suits and cover-ups so they could jump in with us,” Jade, who opted for an Alaïa two-piece sequin set with Bottega Veneta earrings, says. “We wanted this first night to get everyone loose and comfortable and say their long-lost hellos before really kicking off the weekend.”
Jade wanted the rehearsal dinner the next night to feel unconventional, a little weird, and in her words, like “an excellent mushroom trip.” They strung miles of different colored tulle, garlands made of flowers, and fringe from the ceiling to create this multi-textured, immersive, and colorful décor explosion. Wearing white at a colorful rehearsal dinner like this one felt almost sacrilegious to Jade, so instead, she went with a rainbow fringe Ashish dress. “I fell in love with it the second I saw it,” she explains. “It looked like it was made for our rainbow rehearsal dinner.”
Jade’s eldest brother, Jamie, emceed the event and a lineup of the couple’s favorite people gave speeches. “We wept with laughter and winced with anticipation at the well-deserved public roasting,” the bride notes. “Then, to honor my Italian roots, the tarantella came on and servers came piling in from all different directions with trays filled with shots and every light-up accessory you can think of: flower crowns, cowboy hats, necklaces, rings for everyone to wear to get the dance party started. We danced the night away with reckless abandon.”
The ceremony took place the next day at Molokini Lookout, with the bride wearing a custom Galia Lahav dress with Aquazzura heels. “I’ve never paid too much attention to people’s wedding dresses,” Jade admits. “Sure, I’d seen beautiful ones that were perfect for the bride wearing it, but, maybe because wedding dresses don’t typically look like the sweatpants I wear every day, I never saw a dress that I, myself, would like to wear one day.”
