At age 37, Lynn Rozenberg began practicing manifestation to find her future husband. Her mother had just approached her with the suggestion that she could have a baby on her own, and Lynn decided she had to take action. “I always say it’s a matter of time and I just need one person,” shares Lynn, who is the head of marketing of bridal brand Galia Lahav in Israel. So before attending a wedding in August 2024, she told herself to go in with a positive mindset. “Today’s the day something is gonna change,” she remembers thinking. “I’m gonna come out of here with a number.” At the beginning of the event, she ran into Instagram influencer Lea Schenirer—who she had collaborated with at Galia Lahav—and told her of her plans to try and meet someone that night. She told her, “You have many beautiful men here. Maybe it’s gonna be the day.” And it was…with Schenirer’s son David.

“We just met, and it was the first time I felt like I knew it from that moment,” shares Rozenberg of her meeting with the co-founder and CEO of act.3 production studio. “Everything just clicked. It was very different from everything I experienced before.” She says by the time she left, she felt half in love. A day later, Lynn and David had their first date. Two months later, they moved in together. Six months later, David proposed in Paris. “I thought I would never go with someone who's divorced with a son, but when everything felt so right, I didn't even think about it,” says Lynn. “It just went so naturally, so smoothly, and that was it.” Lynn happily adds that even though she was nervous about how his mother would react, Lea was excited by the fated pairing, and they have since become very close.

Even though she spends her days around wedding dresses, Lynn admits she wasn’t someone who had always dreamed of her nuptials. “I was more passionate about finding the right guy,” she shares. At first, the couple didn’t dig into wedding planning. Then, in October, David suggested they should just go for it and tie the knot on Lynn’s birthday in December. The pair compromised and set a date for New Year’s Eve—giving them a two-month frame to plan the celebration. Their vision for their wedding was to feel as if they were hosting their closest friends and family for a party at home.

Two weeks after they decided the date, Lynn discovered she was pregnant. “I always said I was not going to marry pregnant, but everything was already set,” she says. This meant she would need to take her changing body into account when designing her gowns. The Galia Lahav team—who Lynn says is like family—was so excited to create custom pieces for her after her eight-year tenure at the brand. Lynn shares that when she went to their head of production, Bella, to get started on the designs, she also had to reveal her pregnancy. “I actually didn't say anything. I just stared at her, and she was like, ‘Nooo!’ I replied, “Yes!” She started crying, and I started crying,” says Lynn. Bella came up with the solution that they would drape her look on a mannequin first and not sew anything until the month of, so they could fit the garment on her body.

Lynn says that, at this point in her life, she wouldn’t want to wear the same dress as she would have a decade earlier. After seeing every kind of bride, every fabric, and every silhouette, she didn’t want to feel on display at her wedding. “I wanted to be most authentic and natural to myself,” she shares. The bride decided she wanted one simpler look that was draped and slinky and another that was more celebratory to ring in the New Year.

When she came to designer Galia Lahav to talk about the designs, they had both pulled the exact same references as the vision for her gown. “She really knows me,” explains Lynn, who says Lahav is like a second mother to her. “When I called her from Paris to show her the ring, she started weeping like a baby.” She adds, “What’s so special about her is when Galia is with brides, she really wants to connect and know them so they will feel comfortable in their gown and not have it feel like a costume.”

After the initial sketches were made by the brand’s head designer, Sharon Sever, based on the reference, Lynn had a one-on-one session to dig in further to her design ideas. “Two hours later, he had two sketches,” she says. “I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is so me.’ It was the best experience ever.”

For her ceremony, Lynn would wear a long-sleeve gown with a low, draped back and a small train. As a final detail, an array of Swarovski crystals was applied to the cuffs of the sleeves. “This was my arts and crafts project,” says Lynn. “I really wanted them to be all different shapes and not in a specific order. So I just played with them, and we sewed them on.” Thanks to the draping of the luxe fabric, Lynn’s growing bump didn’t show through the garment.

The second, “celebratory” look was a two-piece jacket and pants set entirely covered in Swarovski crystals with larger gems at the closure and trim. “All the beading they did by hand,” notes Lynn. “It was such a piece. What I loved about it is that I would definitely wear it again. Actually, I already wore it again!” In this look, it’s possible to see a hint of Lynn’s pregnancy bump. “It was cute,” she shares. “At the beginning, I was like ‘I can’t believe I’ll have a belly at my wedding,’ but eventually, I decided I wasn’t going to hide it.”

Looking back at the wedding, Lynn admits she’s happy it’s behind her, as the quick turnaround did bring on some stress. But she says the wedding—filled with their closest friends, family, and members of the Galia Lahav team—was incredible. “Everyone was just crazy happy for us, and it was such an amazing time together,” she says. “They really were so happy to see me with the right man.” Now, the couple is ready for life together with their growing family.