Inside Fashion TikToker Madeleine White and DJ Andrew Fedyk’s Golden-Hour Wedding in Santorini
TikTok creator Madeleine White and Loud Luxury DJ Andrew Fedyk were set up by mutual friends in July 2020. Due to the pandemic, the places they could meet in Los Angeles, where they both live, were few and far between. So they settled on dinner at Barrique in Venice, followed by drinks at Saddle Ranch—one of the few places permitted to serve alcohol at the time. A romance sparked amid the most unromantic of times: After that night, says Madeleine, they “never separated again.” Three years later, Andrew proposed at the historic Casa Loma mansion in his hometown of Toronto.
For months leading up to the wedding, Madeleine—a TikToker known for DIY’ing her own outfits, including turning a Prada jumpsuit into a crop top and miniskirt—chronicled the highs and lows of her wedding planning to her nearly five million followers. (A high: designing her own bridesmaid dresses. A low: losing her passport before her bachelorette party.) In the process, anticipation for the couple’s nuptials hit a cyber fever pitch: TikTok was flooded with predictions over her wedding dress, while others waited impatiently for wedding content to drop.
On July 12, Madeleine and Andrew married during a high-summer wedding in Santorini, Greece. The celebrations began on the Friday before, with the couple holding a welcome party at Tango Bar in Fira. The bride wore an ombré pink Oscar de la Renta spring 2018 dress, which she found on Vestiaire Collective. “Our jumping-off point for the welcome party was pink bougainvillea, as this is the first thing that springs to mind when you imagine the blue domes and the white houses of Santorini,” she says. “With that in mind, I knew I wanted to go with pink for our outfits and began the hunt. I loved all the pleated tulle and that it still felt bridal without being white.” She accessorized with sparkly Jimmy Choo shoes, a pink Lady Dior Bag, and the same pearl earrings her grandmother had worn to her wedding in 1959.
The next day Madeleine and Andrew wed overlooking the Aegean Sea at the Cavo Ventus villa. Madeleine found her wedding dress in what might be an untraditional way for anyone but her: TikTok. In 2022—“long before I was actually engaged,” she admits—she saw a TikTok of a model wearing the gown in Viktor Rolf’s spring 2023 bridal show. Madeleine saved it just for fun. A year later, as she tried more than 50 wedding dresses, she still couldn’t get that clip out of her mind. “I reached out to the Viktor Rolf team to see if I could go to their offices and try on the dress, since it was no longer being stocked in store,” she says. “I put it on my body and knew it was my dress.” As a nod to Madeleine’s love of lepidoptera, the Dutch fashion house customized the design with 40 hand-appliquéd butterflies. She paired it with a diamond necklace and matching earrings—all wedding gifts from Andrew.
Madeleine herself designed her bridesmaids’ baby blue corset dresses. “I had a very specific vision in mind, so that left me with one option—to make my bridesmaid dresses myself,” she says. “I have always been a hobby seamstress and have made my own looks for a few red-carpet events before, so I decided to give it a go. I have to admit they did end up taking a lot longer than I anticipated—each dress took me around 30 hours to construct and hand-embellish—but it was totally worth it. My bridesmaids looked beyond stunning and now they are the first—and hopefully not last—to ever have a bespoke Madeleine White dress.”
As golden hour settled upon Santorini, Madeleine met Andrew above the caldera. Both bride and groom admit they found themselves deeply emotional during the ceremony; Madeleine recalls trembling as she read her vows. Andrew, meanwhile, teared up as he read aloud his journal entry from the first day they met back in 2020: “I think I just met a girl who will change my life.”
Afterward, a cocktail and dinner were held on the villa’s stone balcony at sunset, which florist Bloom de Fleur and wedding planners Samkoma.world transformed into a Grecian garden. The bride changed into a backless halter gown by Berta.
After speeches from both of their fathers, as well as Andrew’s business partner Joe, the couple had a surprise for their guests: a live performance by Natasha Bedingfield, who played hits like “Pocket Full of Sunshine” and “Unwritten.” Next, vocalist Morgan St. Jean, the couple’s friend, sang their first-dance song, “Sure Thing” by Miguel. (Madeleine wore a pair of butterfly shoes by fashion student Youssef Nagib, whom she found on TikTok.)
Dancing—and plate smashing—ensued, until the night grew late enough for an after-party. “We transported everybody down to the beach a few minutes away, which we transformed into Club Fedyk,” the bride said. “We had late-night food stands dedicated to each of our pets, as well as donuts, pizza, and a poutine bar. Explaining poutine to the Greek caterers was not an easy feat, but they nailed it.”
Madeleine underwent her third outfit change of the evening: a pink chain-mail dress from Fendi and Versace’s famous Fendace collaboration. It was a nod to her TikTok creator origins. “Anyone who’s been following me for a long time knows that one of my first viral videos ever was trying to DIY the Versace spring 1999 chain-mail dress,” she says. “It felt like fate when, around a year before the wedding, I got a text from a friend in Toronto that Dawn at Rewind Couture had gotten in this one-off Fendi x Versace collab.”
Andrew, meanwhile, was hyperfocused on one aspect in particular: the music. After holding a contest on TikTok, he hired Sweatbaby, a DJ from Australia. (Although the groom couldn’t help but put some headphones on: “Andrew swore he was not going to DJ and he would take the night off, but that didn’t exactly work out,” Madeleine says, laughing. “I could not drag him off the decks at the end of the night.”) The couple and their guests stayed out until 4:30 in the morning.
As the rest of their party headed to bed, Madeleine and Andrew stayed up until the sun rose. “We got into bed on our wedding night just in complete disbelief at what an amazing time we had,” the bride says. “I couldn’t sleep for hours, just replaying all the amazing moments and trying to make sure I remembered everything.”
When asked days later about how they were feeling about the milestone, it’s clear the wedding weekend dust still hasn’t settled: “We are still reeling from just the best weekend of our lives,” Madeleine says.
Photo: Shannon Yen1/52Arriving to our welcome party in Oscar de la Renta. So many nerves.
Photo: Shannon Yen2/52We knew the view would be stunning, but we were still blown away as we arrived to the Santorini sunset.
