Inside Kid Cudi and Lola Abecassis Sartore’s Wedding Weekend in the South of France
Scott Mescudi—better known as Kid Cudi—and Lola Abecassis Sartoremet caught each other’s attention in 2018 at Virgil Abloh’s first show for Louis Vuitton. “I was working behind the scenes, and Scott was walking the runway,” Lola, who was previously a designer at Louis Vuitton and is now head designer at ERL, remembers of how she met the Grammy-winning musician and actor. “Our eyes met in the chaos, and there was a silent spark. After the show, Scott walked straight up and asked for my number.”
The two had been dating for about a year when Scott proposed on December 28th, 2023, in Kyoto. “It was so romantic,” Lola remembers. “He took me around town to visit different temples, and at the end of the day, he rented a temple just for the two of us to have our own moment. He got down on his knee and proposed. It was just us watching the sunset in this beautiful Japanese garden.”
The wedding took place on June 28 at Cap Estel in Èze, near where Lola grew up in the South of France, and the couple worked with Jesse Tombs to plan their ideal wedding weekend. “It was intense—but so fun and enjoyable to get to turn our vision into our dream weekend,” Lola says. “Jesse, Alice, and the team were so supportive of our vision, and they made the process so easy and enjoyable. Wedding planning can get very stressful, but they made sure to turn all our dreams into reality. From choosing the location to building a bounce castle as an homage to our dear friend Virgil Abloh, they made it all so easy.”
They approached all of the aesthetic choices related to their wedding—from the fashion to the decor—with the hope that if they were to look back at pictures years later, they would still be happy with everything. “A beautiful location, the people we love the most, and simple decor to highlight all of that,” Lola says. “The red thread throughout the process was timelessness.”
“I’ve always been a big fan of Saint Laurent and met up with the genius and visionary Anthony Vaccarello personally with Lola to design my outfits for the wedding weekend,” Scott says. “Together, we created three looks: a mouselike pleated white shirt and tailored sateen black pants for the welcome dinner, something elegant but more laidback.” For the wedding day, Anthony came up with the idea of a double breasted black suit in grain de poudre with a sateen lapel, a white shirt, and slim tie with Chelsea boots. And then, for the after-party, they chose a crystal embroidered mousseline top with a tailored pant.
The bride was determined to work with her dear friend (and bridesman), the designer Alain Paul, who she met during her years working at Louis Vuitton under Abloh. “As soon as I got engaged, I told him I wanted him to design this dress,” Lola says. “I’ve always been Alain’s biggest fan—his vision of womenswear is so powerful, contemporary, and timeless at the same time. Alain came up with this idea of using lace, but we didn’t want to use only one as in a more traditional wedding dress. We thought of mixing them as if we would have gone to flea markets throughout the years and found vintage laces to put together a dress. We had the help of this amazing Italian mill, Pizval, who custom-made six different laces for us. Alain spent hours draping them on me, and this is how we came up with the dress. The dress was hand made in Paris by this incredible atelier, and we used 60 meters total of laces.” For the after-party, Alain created a mini version of a runway bridal look from a previous collection.
For jewelry, Ben Baller created custom wedding bands with the idea of mixing two metals—rose gold and platinum for Scott, and gold and platinum for Lola. The combination of the two metals was intended to represent the union of two people.
On Saturday, the ceremony took place overlooking the ocean in the gardens of the Villa Cap Estel. “It was bliss,” Lola remembers. “A moment out of time where the world stopped, and it was just the two of us. We forgot everything around us. It was just us and our love, and it was the purest moment.” Lola and Scott always knew they wanted their minister, Pastor Rich, to officiate their ceremony. “Scott connected with him over the years and introduced me to him,” Lola explains. “We all got along so well, it just made so much sense to have him with us for the most important moment of our lives.”
After the ceremony, guests moved to cocktail hour by the pool, where Badbadnotgood was playing. “This was a full circle moment as they were playing at Virgil’s first show for Louis Vuitton where we met,” Lola says. Then, everyone gathered on the lawn by the villa for dinner, where candles were positioned all around the tables. Other than that, the couple wanted the decor to be quite minimal, so as to highlight the beauty of the location. “You don’t need to do much when you get to spend time with everyone you love in such a magical place,” Lola says. “The chef at the hotel is a young upcoming chef and killed it,” Lola says. “It’s a challenge to please everyone, especially people coming from different food cultures.”
After dinner, guests headed inside the villa for the after-party, where they had turned the restaurant of the hotel into a speakeasy decorated with red and pink velvets. “It was very cozy,” Lola says. Once everyone was inside, Scott performed two songs from his upcoming album for Lola.
“Everyone [we know who had] already gotten married told us it would go fast,” Lola says. “We didn’t know it would go this quickly [though]. We’re on cloud nine in our little bubble of love. It’s so overwhelming to receive so much love in such a short amount of time. You want this feeling to never end. It was really the most perfect, flawless, peaceful day, and we want to do it all over again. Looking back, I wouldn’t change a thing.”
