Ketzia and Liselotte’s story started with a swipe. They met on Tinder in 2021, when Liselotte had just moved from Singapore to Canada for school. Pandemic dating meant their first meeting was a pyjama hangout at Liselotte’s apartment, planned as a night in and stretched into five days! They’ve been inseparable since.

What pulled them together was more than timing. They discovered a string of coincidences that felt like fate. They’d both gone to the same university in England, lived across the street from one another without ever crossing paths, shared a mutual close friend, and Liselotte had once even tried to book a tattoo at the studio Ketzia was working at! Those overlaps inspired their fate and tarot inspired wedding theme. They cast themselves as the sun and the moon, surrounded by their people as the stars.

“We are artistic, colourful and didn’t want a basic wedding”, they began. “Every part of the day was bright, joyful, and artistic. We had a blended Jewish-Singaporean wedding. We both had the experience of loving our respective cultures, but not quite fitting into the traditional expectations. So we kept things traditional with a twist.”

To honour Liselotte’s Singaporean background, they held a tea ceremony the day before and their reception food came from a local Singaporean/Malaysian restaurant. To honour Ketzia’s Jewish heritage, they held a queer Jewish ceremony. Her brother Tzevi, who always joked he was a rabbi in another life, officiated. Together they made the chuppah decorated with an intertwined sun and moon, and decorated with faux flowers. Seven friends gave the seven blessings, some even phoning in from Singapore.

The couple walked down the aisle together to Hozier’s First Light and back out to Harry Styles’ Golden. Both songs spoke to the moment when sun and moon meet. They wrote their vows separately, but somehow ended them with the exact same promises.

The reception carried their theme further. Guests were guided to their tables by custom-illustrated cards in envelopes, each one matching the table’s décor. Every table took its name from a card. They swapped a traditional guestbook for a scrapbook and Polaroids, letting their community of artists fill the night with doodles and collages. They made wooden bookmarks that doubled as favours and had a tarot reader onsite for anyone who wanted to get a reading.

A DIY approach shaped the whole wedding. “I loved designing the day,” Ketzia said. “Designing each piece of stationery, planning the table settings, making flower arrangements. My family is big on crafting, so this was a fun opportunity to come together and make something beautiful.” But they learned that DIY didn’t necessarily mean cheaper. Half of their $45,000 budget ended up going to the food (and additional rentals they needed to add as they used a restaurant not a traditional wedding caterer) but serving food that honoured Liselotte’s heritage mattered too much to cut corners.

The only regret was not seeing each other before the wedding. “While the first look was very special, missing out on being with my partner for half of the day was the hardest part,” Ketzia explained.

“It’s cheesy to say, but being with each other was the best part of the day”, they concluded. “We didn’t leave each other’s side for even a second.”